OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perceptual and Motor Skills is 3. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychometric Support for a Japanese Version of the Sport Imagery Ability Questionnaire	48
Motor Compensation Strategies for Reduced Upper Limb Function Among Individuals With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy	24
A Review and Meta-Analysis of Interactive Metronome Training: Positive Effects for Motor Functioning	23
How Do Looming and Receding Emotional Faces Modulate Duration Perception?	23
Exercisers’ Affective and Enjoyment Responses: A Meta-Analytic and Meta-Regression Review	22
Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy on Postural Control and Balance in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial	19
Goal Side Selection of Penalty Shots in Soccer: A Laboratory Study and Analyses of Men’s World Cup Shoot-Outs	19
Examining Single Session Peer-Teaching Instructional Approaches on Pre-Service Physical Education Teachers’ Throwing Techniques	18
The Use of Caregivers’ Smartphones to Assist Infants’ Circadian Sleep–Wake Cycles	18
Improving Balance in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder via Virtual Environments	17
Comparing Relationships Between Pain Coping Levels and Pain, Functional Capacity, and Disability Among Patients with Fibromyalgia and Healthy Controls	17
Preventing the Development of Dyslexia: A Reply to Mather	16
Postural Control, Dual Task Performance and Executive Function Following an Ultramarathon	15
Improving Soccer Players’ Memorization of Soccer Tactics: Effects of Visual Realism, Soccer Expertise, and Visuospatial Abilities	15
Convergent Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of the Unsupported Upper Limb Exercise Test in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain	15
Time-of-Day Effect on Postural Balance and Its Associations with Menopausal Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women	15
A Feasibility Study of Bilateral Wrist Sensors for Measuring Motor Traits in Children With Autism	14
Young Basketball Players’ Multiple Object Tracking Skills Were Unaffected by Stroop-Induced Mental Fatigue	14
The Relative Strengths of Relationships Between Fine Motor Skills, Working Memory, Processing Speed and Fluid Intelligence in Early Elementary School Children	13
Transforming Psychological Testing With Saccadic Responses: Internal Consistency is High for Rorschach and Facial Expressions	13
An Adaptation Effect in Bilingual Adults Who Stutter Suggests Their Motor Learning is Influenced by Language Factors	13
Comparison of Dynamic Balance Performances of Adult Runners With Intellectual Disability Versus Their Sedentary Peers	12
Cardiovascular and Perceptual Responses to Resistance Training with Practical Blood Flow Restriction Induced by a Non-Elastic Band vs. Pneumatic Cuff: A Crossover Randomized Study	12
Traditional Chinese Exercises for Cardiovascular Diseases: A Bibliometric Analysis	11
Adaptation and Initial Validation of the Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire—Self with Spanish Physical Education Pre-Service Teachers	11

The Effect of Using Goggles and Snorkel for Aquatic Skills Acquisition in Youth Learn-to-Swim Programs	11
Effect of Taste-Induced Mood on ERP and Emotional Assessment of Images	11
Adaptation and Validation of a Portuguese Version of the Sports Motivation Scale-II (SMS-II-P) Showing Invariance for Gender and Sport Type	10
The Effect of Think Aloud on Performance and Brain Oxygenation During Cycling – An Exploratory Study	10
The Effect of an 8-Week Aerobic Dance Program on Executive Function in Children	10
Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Lifestyle Evaluation Instrument for Older Adults	10
Construct Validity Evidence in the Motor Coordination Test with Ball - MCTB	10
Relationships Between Three Eating Behaviors and Nine Motives for Food Choices Among Brazilian Adults: A Structural Equation Model	10
Sustained Effect of Auditory Entrainment With Coordinated Movement Varies With Temporal Complexity of Sequential Tapping	9
Upper and Lower Limbs Acute Fatigue Did Not Mitigate Male Trained Air Force Soldiers’ Marksmanship	9
Motor and Visual-spatial Cognitive Abilities in Children Treated for Infantile Esotropia	9
Comparing Physical Activity and Quality of Life of Caregivers of Children With Physical Disabilities and Typically Developing Children	9
Do Perfectionism Traits Predict Team Cohesion and Group Conflict Among Youth Athletes?	9
Associations Between Smartphone Use for Physical Activity by South Korean College Students and Behavioral Change Constructs of the Transtheoretical Model	9
The Relative Age Effect in Male and Female Brazilian Elite Volleyball Athletes of Varied Competitive Levels	9
Instructions for External Focus of Attention Improved Taekwondo Kicking Performance Only Among Less Skilled Youth	9
An Intervention-Related Comparison of Preschoolers’ Scores on the TGMD-2 and TGMD-3	9
Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of the Positive Youth Development Scale – Turkish Version	9
Developing Children’s Motor Skills by Having Fun With Orff’s Approach	9
A Meta-Analysis of Social Ecological Correlates of Physical Activity Among Koreans	8
Initial Validation of the Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire in a Sample of Portuguese Athletes	8
Analysis of Trunk Neuromuscular Activation During Equine-Assisted Therapy in Older Adults	8
A Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Sports (CEQS): Validity Evidence for a Brazilian Version	8
The Effects of Differential Learning on the Standing Broad Jump	8
Is There a Relationship Between Birth Quartile and Vertical Jump Performance Among Young Male Elite Volleyball Athletes?	8
Does Taping Have an Immediate Effect on Shooting the Target?	7
Adapting the Short Grit Scale with Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling for Portuguese College Students	7
Development and Content Validation of the Swimming Competence Assessment Scale (SCAS): A Modified Delphi Study	7
Modeling the Contributions of Perceived Teacher Autonomy Support and School Climate to Chinese EFL Students’ Learning Engagement	7
The Impact of Parkinson’s Disease on General and Specific Motor Aptitudes: A Study of Older Brazilian Adults	7
Predicting Lactate Threshold With Rate of Perceived Exertion in Young Competitive Male Swimmers	7
Effects of Cervical Mobilization on Balance and Gait Parameters in Individuals With Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	7
Turkish Translation/Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Analyses of the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development-Infant Scale (AHEMD-IS)	7
The Effect of Simulating Climbing Movements on Rock Memory and Exploratory Movement in Rock Climbing	7
Acute Effect of Kinesiology Taping on Muscle Activation, Functionality and Proprioception in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial	7
Behavioral Spatial Segmentation and Its Application to Sports Dynamics	7
Gaze Behavior and Cognitive Performance on Tasks of Multiple Object Tracking and Multiple Identity Tracking by Handball Players and Non-Athletes	7
The Effect of a Table Tennis Exercise Program With a Task-Oriented Approach on Visual Perception and Motor Performance of Adolescents With Developmental Coordination Disorder	6
Incremental Visual Occlusion During Split-Belt Treadmill Walking Has No Gradient Effect on Adaptation or Retention	6
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Horseback Mobility in Hippotherapy	6
Executive Functions and Motor Adaptation to Predictable and Unpredictable Perturbations	6
The Mediation Role of Perceived Benefits and Barriers in the Relationship Between Support Provided by Significant Others and Physical Activity of Adolescents	6
Investigation of Motor Activity, Movement Kinematics and Forward-Backwards Gait in Children with Cerebral Palsy	6
Topical Review: Optometric Considerations in Sports Versus E-Sports	6
Bilateral Training Improves Agility and Accuracy for Both Preferred and Non-Preferred Legs in Young Soccer Players	6
Mental Toughness and Resilience in Trail Runner’s Performance	6
Kinesiophobia and Associated Factors in Patients With Myocardial Infarction	6
The Importance of Crowd Support and Team Quality to Home Advantage in Brazilian Soccer League First Division	6
School-Time Movement Behaviors and Fundamental Movement Skills in Preschoolers: An Isotemporal Reallocation Analysis	6
Evaluation of Athletes' Gender-Related Postural Differences	6

Does Relative Age Effect Exist in Paralympic Sport? A Study With Brazilian Paralympic Swimmers	6
Sensorimotor Synchronization Abilities for Polyrhythmic Tasks in Artistic Swimming: A Comparison Between Elite, Novice, and Non-Artistic Swimmers	6
Biopsychosocial Factors Related to Postural Sway During Sit-to-Stand Movement in Children and Adolescents With Down Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study	6
The Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Visuospatial Attention in Young Adults	5
Listening to Preferred and Loud Music Enhances Taekwondo Physical Performances in Adolescent Athletes	5
The Development and Validation of the English Writing Enjoyment Scale	5
Oral and Verbal Praxis in Impaired Language Learners	5
Longitudinal Stability and Change in Young Students’ Mastery-Approach Goals for Running	5
The Effects of Listening to Non-preferred or Self-Selected Music during Short-Term Maximal Exercise at Varied Times of Day	5
Less is Better than More: Anthropomorphic App Icons With Small versus Large Tilt Angles Were Perceived as More Vivid	5
Associations Between Fundamental Motor Skill Domains and Physical Fitness Components in 5-11-Year-Old Children	5
Practice—Not Task Difficulty—Mediated the Focus of Attention Effect on a Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff Task	5
Association of Body Image Perception / (Dis)Satisfaction and Symptoms of Eating Disorders in University Students of Health Sciences	5
Attentional Focus Strategies for Promoting Children’s Motor Learning: A Scoping Review With a Learner-Task-Environment Framework	5
The Roles of Perceived Physical Education Competence, Enjoyment, and Persistence on Middle School Students’ Physical Activity Engagement	5
Effectiveness of Yoga versus Exercise for Reducing Falling Risk in Older Adults: Physical and Psychological Indices	5
Tactile and Auditory Stimuli Can Improve the Specific Physical Performance of Para-Judo Athletes With Varied Origins of Visual Impairment	5
Construction and Assessment of the Physical Activity and Physical Education Importance for Parents Scale	5
Can Prolongate Use of Social Media Immediately Before Training Worsen High Level Male Volleyball Players’ Visuomotor Skills?	5
Comparing the Cognitive Functioning Effects of Aerobic and Pilates Exercises for Inactive Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial	5
The Effects of Trunk Impairment on Fatigue and Balance in Children with Cerebral Palsy	5
Dual-Tasks in Soccer: Effects of Players’ Experience and Task Condition on Physical Performance	5
Importance of Motor Control in “Static Situations” Where the Situation Does not Seem to Change	5
Effect of a Ten-week Sensorimotor Exercise Program on the Side-to-Side LAM Asymmetry of Adolescent Football Players: A Randomized Control Trial	5
Ankle Inversion Proprioception Impairment in Persons with Chronic Ankle Instability Is Task-Specific	5
Evaluation of Skipping in College Students with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder	4
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Outdoor Education Programs on Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy	4
Effects of Time Pressure, Reward, and Information Involvement on User Management of Fake News on a Social Media Platform	4
Single Leg Balance Training: A Systematic Review	4
Visual Attention to Semantic and Orthographic Associations in Fluent Aphasia: Evidence from Eye-Tracking	4
Increased Cognitive Demands Affect Agility Performance in Female Athletes - Implications for Testing and Training of Agility in Team Ball Sports	4
The Development and Evaluation of the Kinesthetic Motor Imagery of Pelvic Floor Muscle Contraction Questionnaire (KMI-PFQ) in Spanish Women	4
Influence of Augmented Probabilistic Information on Defensive Motor Behaviors of 1 vs. 1 Basketball Play	4
Differences Between Consistent and Inconsistent Handedness Remain Consistently Interesting: Ten Years of Research on the Consistency of Handedness With the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory	4
Young Children’s Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM): Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Reliability, and Validity of Turkish Version	4
Assessment and Conceptualization of Perceived Competence in Ice Hockey: A Scale Development and Validation Study	4
The Effects of Manipulating Task Difficulty and Feedback Frequency on Children’s Dart Throwing Accuracy and Consistency	4
The Influence of Active and Passive Motion Experience on Infants’ Visual Prediction Ability	4
The Impact of Audio-Visual, Visual and Auditory Cues on Multiple Object Tracking Performance in Children with Autism	4
Perceiving Body Height From Connected Speech: Higher Fundamental Frequency Is Associated With the Speaker’s Height	4
Predicting Perceived Sport Performance via Self-Determination Theory	4
Aquatic Exercise for Health Promotion: A 31-Year Bibliometric Analysis	4
Effects of Mental Fatigue Induced by Social Media Use on Volleyball Decision-Making, Endurance, and Countermovement Jump Performance	4
A Portuguese Adaptation of the Teruel Orthorexia Scale and a Test of Its Utility with Brazilian Young Adults	4
Effects of Silent Intervals on the Extraction of Human Frequency-Following Responses Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization	3
Analysis of Verticality Perception in Older Adults With and Without Acute Stroke in Half-Lying Versus Sitting Positions	3
An Introduction to the Special Issue on the Role of Psycho-Affective Factors in Second/Foreign Language (L2) Learning	3
The Effect of a Short-Term Mindfulness Program on Motor Skills and on Psychological and Social Behavior in Preschool Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial	3
Exploring the Importance of Motor Competence for Behavioral and Health Outcomes in Youth	3
Burpee Interval Training Is Associated With a More Favorable Affective Valence and Psychological Response Than Traditional High Intensity Exercise	3
Psychometric Suitability of Adaptations to the Special Judo Fitness Test for Athletes With Visual Impairment	3
Exploring Throwing Yips in Youth Baseball Players: Prevalence, Symptoms, Players’ Psychological Characteristics, and Triggers	3
The Roles of Grit and Motivation in Predicting Children’s Leisure-Time Physical Activity: One-Year Effects	3
Sex Differences in the Visuomotor Control of Obstacle Crossing When Walking Are Not Age Related	3
Simulating Local Biases in Visual Attention in Neurocognitive Performance	3
Quality of Life and Associated Factors Among Male Wheelchair Handball Athletes	3
Correlations between Trunk Control and Balance in Children with Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy	3
Investigating the Association of Chinese EFL Students’ Growth Mindset, Grit, and Foreign Language Enjoyment: A Structural Equation Modelling Study	3
Investigating Auditory Perception at Europe’s Highest Mountain Lodge	3
Interrelationships of Touch and Proprioception with Motor Impairments in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review	3
In-Vehicle Interaction Systems, Eye Movements, and Safety	3
Expert and Novice Goalkeepers' Perceptions of Changes During Open Play Soccer	3
Higher Family Affluence is Associated With Multi-Sport Participation Among Irish Youth	3
The Interrelationships Between Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teachers’ Immediacy and Clarity with Learners’ Boredom	3
Complex Relationships Between Students' Foreign Language Attitudes and Proficiency Perceptions with Foreign Language Classroom Enjoyment: Insights from Chinese University Students of Japanese	3
Effect of the Visual Illusion on Stepping-Over Action and Its Association with Gaze Behavior	3
Estimating the Distance Between Map Points May Be Related to Forms of Representing the Map´s Scale	3
Gait Variability Relates to Prosocial, Emotional and Risk-Taking Behavior in Typically Developing Children	3
Sex Does Not Sell: The Effect of Sexual Content on Advertisement Effectiveness and Interference with Memory for Program Information	3
Turkish Adaptation of the Executive Functions and Occupational Routines Scale: Validity and Reliability Among Children with Dyslexia	3
Exercise Duration Affects Session Ratings of Perceived Exertion as a Function of Exercise Intensity	3
Gait and Sit-To-Stand Motor Compensation Strategies in Children and Adolescents With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy	3
Effects of Mental Visualization on Plyometric Performance and Self-Confidence of Football Players	3
The Positive Impact of Combining Motor Imagery, Action Observation and Coach’s Feedback on Archery Accuracy of Young Athletes	3
Neuropsychophysiological Aspects of Soccer Performance: A Bibliometric Analysis and Narrative Review	3