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 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment	59
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice	41
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study	26
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football	25
Improving longitudinal performance assessment of youth soccer players: 10 m sprint percentile curves adapted to biological age	25
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players	24
Development of team-based and individualised speed zone thresholds for elite club-level women’s soccer	23
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™	23
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives	22
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players	22
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?	21
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football	20
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick	20
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football	19
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play	18
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support	18
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players	18
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league	17
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs	17
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia	16
Injury surveillance in The FA Walking Football Cup 2024	16
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review	16
Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations	15
The relative age effect in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA): a mixed methods approach	14
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis	13

Agreement between perceived and objective sleep duration in highly trained young male soccer players	13
Distinguishing skill from technique in football	13
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
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
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment	12
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players	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
Effects of concussion on technical performance in professional Australian football	11
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 2022	10
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	10
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes	10
Injuries and risk factors in men’s beach soccer: Japanese national championships 2013–2023	10
Match activity profile and heart rate responses of top-level soccer referees during Brazilian national first and second division and regional championships	9
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study	9
Crossing time zones and touchlines: an observational survey of practitioner perceptions on travel in elite North American soccer	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
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?	9
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	8
‘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	8
Medical care delivery in international football: perceived best practice and challenges. An interview-based study of national team clinicians	8
How to mitigate injury risk after return-to-play in elite football? Expert judgement meets data analytics	8
Soccer coaches vs. sport science and medicine staff: who can more accurately predict the skeletal age of high-level youth soccer players?	8
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in football – a “Keeping SCORE” approach to judicious use	7
Acute pre- and post-competitive soccer match-play changes in neuromuscular factors, physical performance, and muscle response in youth male players	7
Exploring psychosocial risk factors for dropout in adolescent female soccer	7
Health problems in top-level female football players: a four-season prospective study in the Finnish top football league	7
Correction	7
Correction	7
Broadcast analytics – an evaluation of video-based tracking systems with constrained player visibility	7
Heading in football: a systematic review of descriptors, definitions, and reporting methods used in heading incidence studies	7