OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Physical Education Review is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A scoping review critically examining research connecting social and emotional learning with three model-based practices in physical education: Have we been doing this all along?	43
Physical literacy in children and adolescents: Definitions, assessments, and interventions	40
Continuing professional development for physical education teachers in Europe	27
Effect of a hybrid teaching games for understanding/sport education unit on elementary students’ self-determined motivation in physical education	25
The (virtual) teaching of physical education in times of pandemic	24
The effect of the Sport Education Model on basic needs, intrinsic motivation and prosocial attitudes: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis	22
Examining mental health literacy, help-seeking behaviours, distress, and wellbeing in UK coaches	21
Challenges faced by preservice and novice teachers in implementing student-centred models: A systematic review	20
Informal sport and curriculum futures: An investigation of the knowledge, skills and understandings for participation and the possibilities for physical education	19
Including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities in mainstream secondary physical education: A revisit study	18
The efficacy of using mobile applications in changing adolescent girls’ physical activity behaviour during weekends	16
Physical education in a post-COVID world: A blended-gamified approach	15
Barriers and facilitators to inclusion in integrated physical education: Adapted physical educators’ perspectives	15
‘Health First’ and curriculum reform in China: The experiences of physical education teachers in one city	15
Messy methods: Making sense of participatory research with young people in PE and sport	14
Effect of a six-week dance-based physical education intervention on primary school children’s creativity: A pilot study	14
Learning communities and physical education professional development: A scoping review	14
Effects of the Sport Education model on adolescents’ motivational, emotional, and well-being dimensions during a school year	14
Between ideal teaching and ‘what works’: The transmission and transformation of a content area from university to school placements within physical education teacher education	14
The effects of service-learning on physical education teacher education: A case study on the border between Africa and Europe	13
Spanish physical education teachers’ perceptions of talent development	13
Students’ attitudes towards and experiences of the Youth-fit health-related fitness test battery	13
A comparative analysis of discourses shaping physical education provision within and across the UK	12
‘Even if you don’t care…you do care after all’: ‘Othering’ and physical education in Norway	12
See the forest by looking at the trees: Physical education teachers’ interpersonal style profiles and students’ engagement	11

Principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programmes: A social-ecological perspective	11
A one-year follow-up of basic psychological need satisfactions in physical education and associated in-class and total physical activity	11
Moving from physical literacy to co-existing physical literacies: What is the problem?	10
Primary field experiences: Critical for primary generalist physical education teachers?	10
Trans-Contextual Model Predicting Change in Out-of-School Physical Activity: A One-Year Longitudinal Study	10
Exploring social justice pedagogies in health and physical education through Critical Incident Technique methodology	10
Development of the Pre-service Physical Education Teachers' Teacher Identity Scale	9
Perceived teachers’ autonomy support, positive behaviour, and misbehaviour in physical education: The roles of advantageous comparison and non-responsibility	9
Enacting assessment for learning in the induction phase of physical education teaching	8
Examination of elementary students’ emotions and personal and social responsibility in physical education	8
The tennis common content knowledge measure validation	8
Understanding students’ novelty satisfaction in physical education: Associations with need-supportive teaching style and physical activity intention	8
Simplistic policy, skewed consequences: Taking stock of English physical education, school sport and physical activity policy since 2013	8
Developing young people’s mental health awareness through education and sport: Insights from the Tackling the Blues programme	8
‘Same, same, but different?!’ Investigating diversity issues in the current Austrian National Curriculum for Physical Education	8
Physical literacy and policy alignment in sport and education in Australia	8
Undergraduate students’ experiences with educational podcasts to learn about inclusive and integrated physical education	8
The (im)possibilities of praxis in online health and physical education teacher education	8
A sport-specific optimization approach to mental wellness for youth in low-income neighborhoods	8
“You’re sitting on a hot soccer field drinking Gatorade…I’m sitting in a yacht club just enjoying the view, enjoying the drinks”: Parental reproduction of social class through school sport sailing	7
Teachers’ perceptions of a lesson study intervention as professional development in physical education	7
‘It’s how PE should be!’: Classroom teachers’ experiences of implementing Meaningful Physical Education	7
Introduction to Special Issue on Mental Health and Mental Illness in Physical Education and Youth Sport	7
Teaching physical education in ‘paradise’: Activity levels, lesson context and barriers to quality implementation	7
Motivating students for physical activity: What can we learn from student perspectives?	7
The relationships among motivational climate, perceived competence, physical performance, and affects during physical education fitness testing lessons	7
Developing the practice of pre-service physical education teachers through a dyad model of lesson study	7
Understanding disruptive situations in physical education: Teaching style and didactic implications	7
Students’ perceptions of visibility in physical education	7
Flipped learning in physical education: A scoping review	7
Adoption and fidelity of Sport Education in Spanish schools	7
Relationships between students’ individual interest, achievement goals, perceived competence and situational interest: A cluster analysis in swimming	7
Artefacts and influence in curriculum policy enactment: Processes, products and policy work in curriculum reform	7
Antecedents of primary school teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles in physical education	7