Journal of Sports Sciences

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Sports Sciences is 27. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Relationships between changes in self-reported physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in France and Switzerland210
Talent identification and development in soccer since the millennium113
Power, precision, and sample size estimation in sport and exercise science research92
Global levels of fundamental motor skills in children: A systematic review86
Effects of physical activity interventions on cognitive outcomes and academic performance in adolescents and young adults: A meta-analysis82
Video assistant referees (VAR): The impact of technology on decision making in association football referees60
Development of cut-points for determining activity intensity from a wrist-worn ActiGraph accelerometer in free-living adults58
Physical activity and nutrition guidelines to help with the fight against COVID-1956
Validity and reliability evidence for motor competence assessments in children and adolescents: A systematic review55
Methods of performance analysis in team invasion sports: A systematic review52
A validation study of the WHOOP strap against polysomnography to assess sleep51
A survey of talent identification and development processes in the youth academies of professional soccer clubs from around the world49
Systematic review of the acute and chronic effects of high-intensity interval training on executive function across the lifespan44
Effects of plyometric jump training in female soccer player’s vertical jump height: A systematic review with meta-analysis43
Validity of Wrist-Worn photoplethysmography devices to measure heart rate: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Changes in children’s physical fitness, BMI and health-related quality of life after the first 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in England: A longitudinal study34
The influence of COVID-19 measures in the United Kingdom on physical activity levels, perceived physical function and mood in older adults: A survey-based observational study33
How does mental fatigue affect soccer performance during small-sided games? A cognitive, tactical and physical approach32
Improving energy expenditure estimates from wearable devices: A machine learning approach30
Time to embrace the complexity when analysing GPS data? A systematic review of contextual factors on match running in rugby league29
Temporal trends in the sit-ups performance of 9,939,289 children and adolescents between 1964 and 201729
Cross-validation of the Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy second edition (CAPL-2): The case of a Chinese population29
How much, how often, how well? Adherence to a neuromuscular training warm-up injury prevention program in youth basketball29
Feasibility and reliability of the Spanish version of the Youth Activity Profile questionnaire (YAP-Spain) in children and adolescents28
An extended challenge-based framework for practice design in sports coaching27
The effect of low-volume high-intensity interval training on cardiometabolic health and psychological responses in overweight/obese middle-aged men27
Examining the representativeness of a virtual reality environment for simulation of tennis performance27
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