Science and Medicine in Football

Papers
(The H4-Index of Science and Medicine in Football is 17. 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
A special issue only for one virus: has the football research community responded well to the pandemic?57
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football49
Determining age-specific velocity thresholds for elite youth female soccer players47
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice47
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study40
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment33
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players29
Estimating is not measuring: the use of non-invasive estimations of somatic maturity in youth football26
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™20
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives20
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players19
Are there differences in the attention of elite football players concerning playing positions?19
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick18
The effectiveness of 3D multiple object tracking training on decision-making in soccer17
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football17
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?17
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league17
Monitoring the beautiful adapted game: a 3-year prospective surveillance study of injuries in elite English Para football17
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