Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health

Papers
(The H4-Index of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health is 15. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes164
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education32
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union29
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace21
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story20
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders19
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology18
‘At least you got to see people when you went out for a walk’: older adults’ lived, embodied experiences during COVID-19 times in the United Kingdom18
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence18
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete17
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk17
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV16
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences16
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach15
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running15
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