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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology146
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union30
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes26
Identities and moralities in social networks. A digital ethnography of running in contemporary society18
‘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
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace18
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story16
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education16
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences16
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV15
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence15
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete14
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach14
Correction13
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk13
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport13
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies13
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain13
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running13
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