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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football69
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment58
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study55
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice36
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players23
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players22
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives22
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football21
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™21
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick21
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?21
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support20
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play20
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players20
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football19
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league18
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs18
Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations17
Injury surveillance in The FA Walking Football Cup 202417
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