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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes186
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union32
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story24
‘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 Kingdom24
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders23
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace23
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education21
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach20
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk19
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete19
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence17
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running17
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences16
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies15
Correction15
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program15
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