OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Medicine in Football 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A special issue only for one virus: has the football research community responded well to the pandemic?	59
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study	49
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice	49
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment	40
Determining age-specific velocity thresholds for elite youth female soccer players	34
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football	29
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players	28
Estimating is not measuring: the use of non-invasive estimations of somatic maturity in youth football	22
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives	21
Are there differences in the attention of elite football players concerning playing positions?	20
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players	20
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™	20
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football	18
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick	18
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players	17
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs	17
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?	17
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support	17
Monitoring the beautiful adapted game: a 3-year prospective surveillance study of injuries in elite English Para football	17
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league	16
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football	16
Injury surveillance in The FA Walking Football Cup 2024	15
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play	15
The relative age effect in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA): a mixed methods approach	15
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia	14

Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations	14
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review	14
Lessons from establishing a football-specific registry of anterior cruciate ligament injuries - data collection and first epidemiological data	13
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes	12
The effect of knee-flexion angle on peak force and muscle activation during isometric knee-flexor strength testing using the Nordbord device in soccer players	12
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis	12
The effect of bio-banding on technical and tactical indicators of talent identification in academy soccer players	12
Concurrent validation of foot-mounted inertial measurement units for quantifying Australian Rules football kicking	12
Sport-related concussion knowledge and attitudes of staff working in English elite women’s football: a survey-based study	12
Distinguishing skill from technique in football	12
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players	11
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 2022	11
Discriminative validity of summarized hip and knee angular accelerations for lower extremity training load quantification in male soccer players during a standardised training drill	11
Low sleep quality and morningness-eveningness scale score may impair ball placement but not kicking velocity in youth academy soccer players	11
Effects of concussion on technical performance in professional Australian football	11
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment	11
Match activity profile and heart rate responses of top-level soccer referees during Brazilian national first and second division and regional championships	10
Do environmental temperatures and altitudes affect physical outputs of elite football athletes in match conditions? A systematic review of the ‘real world’ studies	9
Broadening our understanding of injury mechanisms to include at-risk situations: an overview of potential injuries at the FIFA men’s World Cup Qatar 2022 ^TM	9
Where do you go when your periods go?: A case-study examining secondary amenorrhea in a professional internationally-capped female soccer player through the lens of the sport nutritionist	9
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study	8
Additional time error in association football is associated with interruption type and goal difference	8
The relative age effect in under-17, under-20, and adult elite female soccer players	7
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on soccer positional and physical demands in the Spanish La Liga	7
Acute pre- and post-competitive soccer match-play changes in neuromuscular factors, physical performance, and muscle response in youth male players	7
Heading in football: a systematic review of descriptors, definitions, and reporting methods used in heading incidence studies	7
Factors associated with cooperative network connectedness in a professional Australian football small-sided game	7
The variability of physical match demands in elite women’s football	7
Soccer coaches vs. sport science and medicine staff: who can more accurately predict the skeletal age of high-level youth soccer players?	7
Health problems in top-level female football players: a four-season prospective study in the Finnish top football league	7
Exploring psychosocial risk factors for dropout in adolescent female soccer	7
‘After they see what you have, they contact you’: a qualitative study of national team football players’, coaches’ and clinicians’ experiences in engaging with a context-specific injury surveillance s	7
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?	7
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in football – a “Keeping SCORE” approach to judicious use	7
Broadcast analytics – an evaluation of video-based tracking systems with constrained player visibility	7