OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotional determinants and consequences of flow experience of young elite athletes involved in intensive training centers across the competitive season	37
The mediating role of self-esteem in the association between physical fitness and risk of depression in adolescents: DADOS Study	36
Visual exploratory activity in elite women’s soccer: an analysis of the UEFA Women’s European Championship 2022	26
Significant others and children’s mental toughness in sports: a longitudinal test of the social influence in sport model	23
Creating sport environments for youth to thrive: understanding the mechanism to intentions to continue sport and subjective well-being	18
Semantic and affective processing of implicit associations are related to the regularity of running behaviour in young women: an ERP study	18
Factors impacting the anticipated pleasure of potential physical activity experiences: a conjoint investigation across involvement segments	17
The relationship among perceived parental psychological control, socially prescribed perfectionism, fear of failure, and performance of adolescent athletes	15
Problematic mobile phone use among youth athletes: a topic modelling approach	15
How small differences grow over time – the snowball effect of grit on practice in sport	14
Free throw shooting performance under pressure: a social psychology critical review of research	14
Motives for physical activity participation: does religious faith play a mediating role?	14
My feet hurt: a qualitative study of self-handicapping in distance runners	13
Temporal dynamics of the quality of the coach-athlete relationship over one season among adolescent handball players: a latent class analysis approach	12
Time to reconsider the role of personality in exercise psychology: a scientometric review of personality and physical activity	11
Introducing The International Society of Sport Psychology Academy of Science	11
Selective advantage of climbers in spatial navigation tasks	11
ISSP position stand on cultural praxis in sport psychology: reaffirming our commitments to the ethics of difference, cultural inclusion, and social justice	11
Exploring social networks relative to various types of exercise self-efficacy within CrossFit participants	10
Career trajectories of junior athletes in Latin America and the Caribbean and their relationship with mental health	10
Development of the assessment of recovery activities for athletes	10
Crowd social pressure in the Brazilian soccer league: testing home advantage and referees’ bias during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Impact of exercise addiction on quality of life during COVID-19: mediating role of obsessive-compulsive disorder and physiological symptoms	10
Conceptualisation, measurement, and associated factors of eudaimonic well-being of athletes: a systematic review	10
Men’s goal-oriented motives, physical activity experiences and body-related perceptions: a latent profile analysis	9

Notice of duplicate publication: Journal of sport psychology in action: coming of age	9
Effects of past and current motor experiences as soccer players in decision-making of amateur soccer referees	9
Multisensory integration in anticipation: moderating effects of time and task constraints	8
Adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress among Chinese college students: the moderating effects of physical activity and sleep duration	8
Effects of acute exercise of different modalities and durations on interference control and response inhibition in healthy young adults	8
Journeying into postqualitative inquiry: an exploration of the opportunities and tensions for graduate students in sport and exercise psychology	8
What can post qualitative inquiry offer physical activity intervention? An example of intergenerational physical activity	8
Effects of a strategic self-talk intervention on attention functions	8
The use of virtual reality for tactical learning: the moderation of expertise and visuospatial abilities	8
Assessing the relationship between pre- and post-game interpersonal emotions in women’s soccer teams	8
Association of working memory with gross motor skills in early childhood	7
Motivational processes of the relationship between weight stigma and physical activity: a comparison between France and Mexico	7
Promoting psychological integration within culturally diverse school classes: a motivational climate intervention in the physical education context	7
Efficacy and mechanisms of a brief adaptive goal-setting intervention for physical activity: A randomised pilot trial	7
The effects of acute aerobic and resistance exercise on the planning aspect of executive functions in children with preterm birth	7
Physical activity intention-behavior gap during the COVID-19 pandemic: the moderating role of motivation and health-belief	7
Coaches’ perspectives on contribution	7
Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and risk of all-cause mortality in people with anxiety disorders in South Korea	7
Motivational regulations of users in unisex fitness centres	7
External and global internal focus of attention on whole-body similarly increases the vertical jump performance: a randomised, controlled and crossover study	7
Parent–child co-participation in sport and physical activity: a scoping review	7
The future-oriented hopes and goals of adolescent student-athletes in Finnish sport high schools	6
Volleyball serves impact sound intensity and frequency spectrum affect the predictions of the future ball’s landing point according to the level of auditory-motor experience	6
Early specialisation among Swedish aesthetic performers: exploring motivation and perceptions of parental influence	6
Influence of pre-induced mental fatigue on tactical behaviour and performance among young elite football players	6
Is individual interest a cause or an outcome of motor skill acquisition?	6
Promote “ we ” to inspire me: examining the roles of group identification and trust in the association between identity leadership and follower inspiration	6
The effect of simultaneous and alternate action observation and motor imagery combinations on the learning of badminton short serve in children	6
Aggression among martial arts practitioners: a comparative study and an investigation into the role of personality traits and self-control in reducing aggression	6
A critical overview of sport development in Botswana	6
High income but high stress: cross over effects of work and family role conflict in professional athletes and their partners	5
A mixed-methods examination of a mental health awareness program in elite ice hockey	5
Variables of influence on the fluctuation of the mood profile among professional basketball players during a competitive period	5
The effect of Tai chi on positive-activated affect in adults: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	5
The effect of expertise upon perceived reach- and grasp-ability in rock climbers	5
The efficacy of psychological skills training for enhancing performance in sport: a review of reviews	5
“Less healthy, unfit, weaker” effects of the emerging nonexerciser stereotype on performance on a fatiguing task	5
Trends of physical activity and sedentary behaviours among secondary school students in Singapore: what has changed in 15 years?	5
Home advantage in tennis exists independent of competition level, gender and COVID-19 restrictions: evidence from German team tennis competitions	5
Using video-notational analysis to examine soccer players’ behaviours	5
John Henryism and fear of failure in competitive sport: predicting competitive standard and mental well-being	5
Influence of an audience on conscious motor processing and performance during a go-only and stop-signal soccer penalty shooting task	5
Online exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic and factors promoting or hindering participation in adults: a scoping review	5
Acute moderate-intensity aerobic exercise facilitates processing speed involving inhibitory control but not neuroelectric index of control process and cognitive integration	5
Examining the utility of exercise-related cognitive errors in predicting physical activity across 12-week fitness programmes	5
Examining the effectiveness of focus of attention instructions on the learning of a badminton long serve in novice students: movement automaticity hypothesis	5
“If I talk about it, I'm weak, and I'm supposed to be strong”: experiences of body-related shame in women athletes	5
Unloading the dice: selection and design of comparison and control groups in controlled trials to enhance translational impact within motor learning and control research	5
Relationships between mindfulness, self-compassion, and grit among Thai national athletes: the mediating role of self-regulation	5
The effect of physiological activation on intuitive decision-making performance in basketball players at various level of athleticism	5

The moderating role of appearance self-concept in the relationship between sport and flourishing among adolescents: a COMPASS study	5
Maintained cognitive gains after 10 weeks of cognitively engaging exercise via reducing body fat in overweight children	4
“Don't think, just shoot” – The paradox of shooting three-point shots in basketball	4
The affect-intensity relationship in aerobic exercise: an analysis based on a systematic review	4
Psychology of physical activity: a 30-year reflection on correlates, barriers, and theory	4
What constitutes editorial virtuous leadership	4
International Society of Sport Psychology position stand: scientist practitioners	4
The effects of electronic device use on athlete performance and health: a systematic review	4
The contextualisation of Chinese athletes’ careers in the Chinese Whole Nation System	4
“I can join a sport class, but school has to come first”: adolescent athletes’ dual career construction styles in lower secondary sport schools	4
The “silent” noise: moving forward from bias to noise in football referees’ decision-making	4
Women’s views and experiences of a perinatal exercise counselling intervention: a qualitative study	4
Anxiety and sportsmanship in adolescent athletes: the multiple mediating effects of athlete burnout and exercise cognition	4
The effect of domain-specific exercise on high- and low-level cognitive processing during anticipation	4
Mild traumatic brain injury and the propensity for movement specific reinvestment	4
Psychological preparation and coping strategies: reflections from Paralympians	4
Continuing education in sport psychology: a survey of where we are and where we need to go	4
Integrating mindfulness in fitness classes: self-compassion and mental health outcomes in a pilot study featuring longitudinal mediational analysis	4
Effect of intergenerational transmission of family sports environment on college students’ physical activity	4
Mental health risk and protective factors in Australian cricket	3
Students’ efficacy profiles and outcomes of perceived relation-inferred self-efficacy support in physical education	3
“I hate it when that happens too!”: observed and perceived exchanges of social support between university student-athletes during discussions of stressors	3
Effectiveness of the mindfulness–acceptance–commitment approach: a meta-analysis	3
The effect of a mental health literacy intervention on Chinese team officials and staff in elite sports: a two-arm non-randomised controlled trial	3
Sport as cognition enhancer from childhood to young adulthood: a systematic review focused on sport modality	3
Personality, social status, and willingness to mentor teammates among NCAA athletes	3
When it is no longer a bit of banter: Coaches’ perspectives of bullying in professional soccer	3
“What am I doing here?” Experiences of unsuccessful and delayed successful crisis transitions during athlete migration	3
The dynamics of Quiet Eye under stress in elite table tennis performance	3
Understanding the intention-to-behaviour relationship for adolescents: an application of the multi-process action control model	3
Motor imagery during action observation in virtual reality: the impact of watching myself performing at a level I have not yet achieved	3
Executive functions and psycho-behavioural skills in artistic gymnasts: age, developmental stage and sex-related differences	3
Short- and longer-term psychological and behavioral effects of exergaming and traditional aerobic training: A randomized controlled trial	3
The effects of a single bout of high-intense strength exercise on cognitive function and postural dual-task control in older adults	3
A qualitative examination of parental mental health and well-being in youth sport	3
ISSP position stand: competent supervision in sport psychology	3
The assessment of the halo-effect in a questionnaire rating dimensions of coaches’ competence	3
Detecting the hot hand in amateur bowlers	3
Why do people do yoga? Examining motives across different types of yoga participants	3
The effects of different types of crowd noise on penalty taking performance in football	3
In pursuit of dual career excellence: factors associated to satisfaction of Swedish University student-athletes	3
A qualitative examination of factors inhibiting and facilitating professional mental health help-seeking following injury in sub-elite club Gaelic footballers	3
The relationship between attitudes and behavioural intentions related to doping: the role of attitude certainty	3
A RE-AIM evaluation of a sport-based trauma-sensitive youth development programme	3
An evaluation of a custom intervention programme to address problematic mobile phone use of youth athletes in Singapore: a hybrid mixed-methods research design	3
The psychology of Gaelic games: a co-produced scoping review to inform research, policy, and practice	3
Emotional competencies training for tennis players: effectiveness of an online individualised psychological support program	3
An autoethnographic account and interpretation of sport related life skills and personal development	3
Mapping ethical positions concerning a coach’s decision to organise a hypoxic training camp	3
“I’m a hurler … basically just a hurler”: a mixed methods study of the athletic identity of elite Irish Gaelic Athletic Association dual career athletes	3
Coping with intensive training demands: a longitudinal investigation of the relationships between appraisal, emotion, coping effectiveness and engagement among elite fencers	3
The impact of intra-team communication and support relationships on team identification and collective efficacy in elite team sport: a social network analysis	3