Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health

Papers
(The TQCC of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders197
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story38
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes28
“ We just want to get fit too ”: belonging and inclusion in the gym25
‘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 Kingdom25
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace22
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union21
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence17
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education17
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences17
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach17
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk17
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete15
Correction15
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running15
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program14
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport14
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain14
Being there in sport, exercise and health ethnography: reflections from the bouldering apprentice13
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies12
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study12
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India12
Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study11
Passing the emotional baton: the roles emotion expressions play amongst gymnasts during competition11
“2032 is a dream for us”: exploring amputee football players’ understanding of classification in para-sport and its application to amputee football11
Love, sacrifice, and rebirth: exploring the embodied narratives of retired women ballet dancers using life history interviews and body mapping11
Territorial identification in crisis: fan identity negotiation following club dissolution in Chinese football10
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education10
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes10
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis9
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches9
Drawing strength: evaluating the Tidda Talk programme through comparative body mapping with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women9
Re-signifying HIV through exercise: from death sentence stigma to healthy self-perception9
Co-produced research that bridges the ‘Knowledge Gap’ to support physical activity participation in disabled children and young people with limb difference9
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China8
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport8
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces8
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies8
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle7
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis7
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media7
(Re)claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures7
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