Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health

Papers
(The H4-Index of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health is 13. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Constructing a grounded theory of grit in sport: understanding the development and outcomes of long-term passion and perseverance in competitive athletes134
Navigating the body’s double nature in a sedentary environment: Swedish primary school children’s use of physical activity during the school day29
Understanding coaches’ perspectives on building trust in sport: a narrative inquiry approach27
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres: a critical discourses analysis25
Landscape of practice: a participatory approach to creating a trauma- and violence-informed physical activity social learning space18
Capital game: male athletes’ rationalisation of playing hurt and reproduction of the risk, pain, and injury custom in professional combat sports17
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport16
Is doping really a problem? How sponsors make sense of a sport with a dubious image15
‘The second I got the phone call, everything changed.’ Exploring the temporal experiences of the spouses and partners of spinal cord injured sportsmen15
Thinking again about the use of think aloud and stimulated recall methods in sport coaching15
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace14
Beyond Caster as object? Examining media constructions of Caster Semenya through decolonial thinking14
Identities and moralities in social networks. A digital ethnography of running in contemporary society14
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being13
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