OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Physical Education Review is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Holistic assessment in school physical education: ‘Seeing the whole picture with our trained eye’	38
Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts	36
Trauma-informed practices and physical education: A scoping literature review	33
Beginning, rise, fall, and comeback: Exploring the journey of a physical education teacher community in South Korea	32
Information and communication technologies in physical education: Exploring the association between role modeling and digital literacy	29
Exploring social justice pedagogies in physical education in Austria: Teaching practices for diversity and equity	26
“We have limited time, so it's a zero-sum game”: Influence of secondary organizational socialization on the forms of physical education teacher education provided by European, Asian, and North America	25
Students’ perceptions of teaching styles use and motivation to participate in PE: A multigroup analysis of the mediating role of basic psychological needs	24
Formative assessment in physical education: teachers’ experiences when designing and implementing formative assessment activities	20
Universal design for learning in physical education: Overview and critical reflection	19
The process(es) of learning about teaching using models-based practice: Pre-service teachers’ experiences	17
Physical education teachers’ perceptions and operationalisations of personal and social development goals in primary education	16
The experiences of Latina and Latino blind and visually impaired students in physical education: A retrospective study	16
Co-designing a running/walking programme with adolescent girls using meaningful physical activity and an activist approach	16
More than advocates: Exploring the role of school adults in amplifying the physical education voices of pupils with a severe learning difficulty in a special school in England	14
Fitting in or standing out? The organisational socialisation of early career physical education specialism graduates through a micropolitical lens	14
Working with trauma-affected young people in secondary schools: Exploring ‘self-care’ with pre-service physical education teachers	13
Re-imagining performance spaces and locations in ecological dynamics: Implications for pedagogical practices in physical education	13
The association of perceived mattering and emotions with physical educator teacher resilience	12
That's what I like! Fostering enjoyment in primary physical education	12
Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling: A Deleuzian perspective	12
The relationship between occupational socialization factors and in-service physical educators’ reported use of sport education	12
Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school–university partnership	11
The role of teaching experience and year level in shaping pre-service PE teachers’ efficacy	11
Adaptation and testing of the factorial structure of the Achievement Emotional Questionnaire-Short to the Spanish context of physical education classes	11

Preservice physical education teachers’ perceptions of initial teacher education	11
Effects of a two-stage physical education teacher education programme on preservice teachers’ specialised content knowledge and students’ game-play in a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game appro	10
Understandings and enactments of social justice pedagogies in Swedish physical education and health practice	10
Motivational processes matter: Understanding the choice of physical education as an elective in secondary school	10
Swimming competence of 9–10-year-old Norwegian primary school children: A cross-sectional study of physical education	10
The if, why and how of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom	10
Adolescents’ enjoyment in face-to-face physical education during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
‘Involve me, and I learn’: Effects of social status on students’ physical activity, skill, and knowledge during group work	10
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education	10
Obstacle course-based versus traditional physical education: Which promotes more physical activity and less sedentary behaviour?	10
Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature	10
Understanding (and extending) the conceptual boundaries of policy research in physical education: A scoping review	9
Relationships of a Cooperative Learning intervention in physical education with children's self-perception dimensions	9
When teachers Google physical literacy: A cartography of controversies analysis	9
Bildung: A German student-centered approach to health and physical education	9
The role of marginalisation and role stressors in physical education teachers’ perceived mattering	9
Physical education pre-service teachers’ perceptions of learning about the spectrum of teaching styles and its role in their pedagogical awareness and practice	9
The transformation of ball games as pedagogic discourse within physical education teacher education	9
Grading the physical self: Exploring the links between physical education grades, body image, and functional investment over one academic school year	9
An analysis of content development in physical education: Preschool teachers’ selection of instructional tasks	8
‘Why don't you really learn anything in PEH?’ – Students’ experiences of valid knowledge and the basis for assessment in physical education and health (PEH)	8
How is observed (de)motivating teaching associated with student motivation and device-based physical activity during physical education?	8
Public elementary school teachers’ positioning in teaching physical education to Japanese language learners	8
‘The teacher could correct me without being there’: Adapting distance education approaches to promote physical activity during lockdown	8
Students’ perceptions of physical education teachers’ (de)motivating styles via the circumplex approach: Differences by gender, grade level, experiences, intention to be active, and learning	8
Choreographing meaningfulness: Boys’ experiences of dance in primary school	8