Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Papers
(The H4-Index of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 26. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self76
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?67
January 2023 Editorial55
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)46
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial37
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions36
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint36
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study34
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study33
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress32
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?31
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team31
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws31
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance31
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study31
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers30
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)30
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps30
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches29
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection29
Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality28
How High-Performance Practitioners Think and Intervene to Change Technique28
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – An investigation of the relationship with soccer-specific performance and the effects of systematic training28
The performance enhancement attitude scale (PEAS) reached ‘adulthood’: Lessons and recommendations from a systematic review and meta-analysis28
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality26
FEPSAC Newsletter26
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children26
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