OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 27. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study	81
Why experience fails to foster expertise in athlete selection	75
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self	70
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?	62
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions	54
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches	53
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors	52
(Re)conceptualizing cohesion: A theoretical realignment and roadmap for future research	52
January 2023 Editorial	46
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint	45
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)	44
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers	43
A randomized controlled trial of school-based exercise on procrastination in high school students: The mediating role of adolescence time management disposition	41
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)	39
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial	37
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance	35
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress	33
How high-performance practitioners think and intervene to change technique	32
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 training	32
Effects of non-functional overreaching and overtraining syndrome on psychological and cognitive functioning in elite athletes: A systematic review	32
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study	31
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study	31
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on emotional memory formation in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: Encoding vs consolidation	30
Mental health in sport: Opportunities for the future of recreational and elite sport psychology	30
The Avengers in action: A gamified-based intermittent teaching unit in the Physical Education setting to promote physical activity and its psychological mediators in secondary education students	28

Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr	28
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season	28
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children	27