Journal of Sports Sciences

Article	Citations
Global levels of fundamental motor skills in children: A systematic review	113
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 study	39
Changes in children’s physical fitness, BMI and health-related quality of life after the first 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in England: A longitudinal study	38
An extended challenge-based framework for practice design in sports coaching	36
Associations between meeting 24-hour movement guidelines and health in the early years: A systematic review and meta-analysis	35
Interval training versus moderate-intensity continuous training for cardiorespiratory fitness improvements in middle-aged and older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	35
Feasibility and reliability of the Spanish version of the Youth Activity Profile questionnaire (YAP-Spain) in children and adolescents	34
Analysis of the worst-case scenarios in an elite football team: Towards a better understanding and application	30
A qualitative analysis of the perceived determinants of success in elite esports athletes	30
The influence of randomness on goals in football decreases over time. An empirical analysis of randomness involved in goal scoring in the English Premier League	27
Effects of a 10-week active recess program in school setting on physical fitness, school aptitudes, creativity and cognitive flexibility in elementary school children. A randomised-controlled trial	27
Seasonal training and match load and micro-cycle periodization in male Premier League academy soccer players	27
“I’d got self-destruction down to a fine art”: a qualitative exploration of relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) in endurance athletes	26
Cross-sectional associations between 24-hour activity behaviours and mental health indicators in children and adolescents: A compositional data analysis	26
Classifying the evidence for evidence-based classification in Paralympic sport	25
Unilateral vs. bilateral hamstring strength assessments: comparing reliability and inter-limb asymmetries in female soccer players	25
Effects of high-intensity interval training in men soccer player’s physical fitness: A systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized-controlled and non-controlled trials	24
Iron status in athletic females, a shift in perspective on an old paradigm	24
Training-induced changes in anterior pelvic tilt: potential implications for hamstring strain injuries management	23
Defending in 4-4-2 or 5-3-2 formation? small differences in footballers’ collective tactical behaviours	22
Improving the criterion validity of the activPAL in determining physical activity intensity during laboratory and free-living conditions	22
The influence of exposure, growth and maturation on injury risk in male academy football players	22
The porous high-press? An experimental approach investigating tactical behaviours from two pressing strategies in football	22
Effects of jump training on physical fitness and athletic performance in endurance runners: A meta-analysis	21
A multidisciplinary investigation into “playing-up” in academy football according to age phase	21

The effect of angle on change of direction biomechanics: Comparison and inter-task relationships	21
Coaches, parents, or peers: Who has the greatest influence on sports participants’ life skills development?	21
The role of growth, maturation and sporting environment on the development of performance and technical and tactical skills in youth basketball players: The INEX study	20
“I must do this!”: A latent profile analysis approach to understanding the role of irrational beliefs and motivation regulation in mental and physical health	20
The association between perceptual-cognitive processes and response time in decision making in young soccer players	20
Whole and peak physical characteristics of elite youth female soccer match-play	19
Non-linear association of efficiency of practice of adult elite athletes with their youth multi-sport practice	19
Fitness and executive function as mediators between physical activity and academic achievement	19
Influence of resistance training load on measures of skeletal muscle hypertrophy and improvements in maximal strength and neuromuscular task performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Scanning activity in elite youth football players	18
Relationship between dolphin kick movement in humans and velocity during undulatory underwater swimming	18
The role of exercise selection in regional Muscle Hypertrophy: A randomized controlled trial	18
Tibial bone forces can be monitored using shoe-worn wearable sensors during running	17
Towards an improved understanding of proximity-to-failure in resistance training and its influence on skeletal muscle hypertrophy, neuromuscular fatigue, muscle damage, and perceived discomfort: A sco	17
Impact of advanced footwear technology on elite men’s in the evolution of road race performance	17
Implicit motor learning in primary school children: A systematic review	16
Patterns of energy availability of free-living athletes display day-to-day variability that is not reflected in laboratory-based protocols: Insights from elite male road cyclists	16
Effects of core training on dynamic balance stability: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Inter-unit reliability of IMU Step metrics using IMeasureU Blue Trident inertial measurement units for running-based team sport tasks	16
The combination of physical and mental load exacerbates the negative effect of each on the capability of skilled soccer players to anticipate action	16
The effects of daily physical activity intervention on physical fitness in preschool children	16
Raising the bar in sports performance research	15
Impaired postprandial glucose and no improvement in other cardiometabolic responses or cognitive function by breaking up sitting with bodyweight resistance exercises: a randomised crossover trial	15
Incidence of bone stress injury is greater in competitive female distance runners with menstrual disturbances independent of participation in plyometric training	15
Effects of regular exercise on inflammasome activation-related inflammatory cytokine levels in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Sedentary behaviour research in adults: A scoping review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	15
Concentric and eccentric inertia–velocity and inertia–power relationships in the flywheel squat	14
Individual patterns of response to traditional and modified sprint interval training	14
Can an inertial measurement unit (IMU) in combination with machine learning measure fast bowling speed and perceived intensity in cricket?	14
Prevalence and burden of health problems in competitive adolescent distance runners: A 6-month prospective cohort study	14
Influence of physical and psychological stress on decision-making performance of soccer referees	14
Muscle strength explains the protective effect of physical activity against COVID-19 hospitalization among adults aged 50 years and older	14
Corrective procedures remove relative age effect from world-class junior sprinters	14
How do soccer players sprint from a tactical context? Observations of an English Premier League soccer team	14
The influence of growth and training loads on injury risk in competitive trampoline gymnasts	14
Expert opinion on classification for footballers with vision impairment: Towards evidence-based minimum impairment criteria	13
Integrating explicit contextual priors and kinematic information during anticipation	13
Interval training causes the same exercise enjoyment as moderate-intensity training to improve cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition in young Chinese women with elevated BMI	13
Reliability of ActiGraph GT3X+ placement location in the estimation of energy expenditure during moderate and high-intensity physical activities in young and older adults	13
International female rugby union players’ anthropometric and physical performance characteristics: A five-year longitudinal analysis by individual positional groups	13
Influence of the forehand stance on knee biomechanics: Implications for potential injury risks in tennis players	13
Retirement of professional soccer players – A systematic review from social sciences perspectives	13
Effectiveness of interventions and behaviour change techniques for improving physical activity in young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
The development of perceptual-cognitive skills in youth volleyball players	13
Influence of age and maturation status on sprint acceleration characteristics in junior Australian football	13
Interpreting magnitude of change in strength and conditioning: Effect size selection, threshold values and Bayesian updating	13
Effects of Nordic hamstring exercise combined with glider exercise on hip flexion flexibility and hamstring passive stiffness	12
How early should you brake during a 180° turn? A kinetic comparison of the antepenultimate, penultimate, and final foot contacts during a 505 change of direction speed test	12
Angle specific analysis of hamstrings and quadriceps isokinetic torque identify residual deficits in soccer players following ACL reconstruction: a longitudinal investigation	12
Seasonal variation of inter-limb jumping asymmetries in youth team-sport athletes	12

Biomechanical upper-extremity performance tests and isokinetic shoulder strength in collision and contact athletes	12
Individual differences in the distribution of activation among the hamstring muscle heads during stiff-leg Deadlift and Nordic hamstring exercises	12
The influence of anthropometric variables, body composition, propulsive force and maturation on 50m freestyle swimming performance in junior swimmers: An allometric approach	12
The association of stride length to ball velocity and elbow varus torque in professional pitchers	12
Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behaviour are associated with C-reactive protein in US adults who get insufficient sleep: A threshold and isotemporal substitution effect analysi	12
High-intensity downhill running exacerbates heart rate and muscular fatigue in trail runners	12
Psychological risk profile for overuse injuries in sport: An exploratory study	12
A distal external focus of attention facilitates compensatory coordination of body parts	12
Predicting Family and Child Physical Activity across Six-Months of a Family-Based Intervention: An Application of Theory of Planned Behaviour, Planning and Habit	12
Exploration of the minimum visual disability criteria for Para nordic and Para alpine skiing using simulated vision impairments	12
A self-determination theory based investigation of life skills development in youth sport	12
Eight-season epidemiological study of match injuries in women’s international rugby sevens	12
Challenge is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring young athlete’s experience of challenges on the talent pathway	12
The determinant factors of undulatory underwater swimming performance: A systematic review	12
Athlete monitoring practices in elite sport in the United Kingdom	12
Technology-based methods for the assessment of fine and gross motor skill in children: A systematic overview of available solutions and future steps for effective in-field use	11
Challenges and opportunities in wheelchair basketball classification– A Delphi study	11
Singing off the same hymn sheet? Examining coherence in a talent development pathway (part 1)	11
May the best-sighted win? The relationship between visual function and performance in Para judo	11
Approaches to determining occlusion pressure for blood flow restricted exercise training: Systematic review	11
Registered Reports in the Journal of Sports Sciences	11
Pacing and stroke kinematics in 200-m kayak racing	11
Morphological and functional asymmetry in elite youth tennis players compared to sex- and age-matched controls	11
Delineating the potential of the vertical and horizontal force-velocity profile for optimizing sport performance: A systematic review	11
Kinetic and kinematic determinants of female sprint performance	11
Effect of vision impairment on match-related performance and technical variation in attacking moves in Paralympic judo	11
Change-of-Direction Deficit vs. Deceleration Deficit: A Comparison of Limb Dominance and Inter-limb Asymmetry between Forwards and Backs in Elite Male Rugby Union Players	11
Accelerometer-assessed sedentary behaviour among Chinese rural older adults: Patterns and associations with physical function	11
Association between offensive and defensive playing style variables and ranking position in a national football league	11
Is the visual impairment origin a performance factor? Analysis of international-level para swimmers and para athletes	11
TGMD-3 short version: Evidence of validity and associations with sex in Irish children	11
The balancing act between skiing and shooting – the determinants of success in biathlon pursuit and mass start events	10
What are the significant turning demands of match play of an English Premier League soccer team?	10
Physical loading in professional soccer players: Implications for contemporary guidelines to encompass carbohydrate periodization	10
The dose-response relationship between interval-training and VO2maxin well-trained endurance runners: A systematic review	10
What is known about the FTP20 test related to cycling? A scoping review	10
The school playground environment as a driver of primary school children’s physical activity behaviour: A direct observation case study	10
The impact and experienced barriers menstruation present to football participation in amateur female footballers	10
Conceptual model of sport-specific classification for para-athletes with intellectual impairment	10
Rebooting in sport training and competitions: Athletes’ perceived stress levels and the role of interoceptive awareness	10
An assessment of physical and spatiotemporal behaviour during different phases of match play in professional Australian football	10
Nationality and sociocultural factors influence athlete development and sport outcomes: Perspectives from United States and Austrian youth alpine ski racing	10
Effects of course design (curves and elevation undulations) on marathon running performance: a comparison of Breaking 2 in Monza and the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna	10
Type of unanticipated stimulus affects lower extremity kinematics and kinetics during sidestepping	10
Predictors of selection into an elite level youth football academy: A longitudinal study	9
The physical characteristics underpinning performance of wheelchair fencing athletes: A Delphi study of Paralympic coaches	9
A systematic review of small sided games within rugby: Acute and chronic effects of constraints manipulation	9
Classification of Australian football kick types in-situation via ankle-mounted inertial measurement units	9
One fifth of patients with Achilles tendinopathy have symptoms after 10 years: A prospective cohort study	9
Is impaired coordination related to match physical load in footballers with cerebral palsy of different sport classes?	9
Scoping review of tests to assess tactical knowledge and tactical performance of young soccer players	9
Mental fatigue independent of boredom and sleepiness does not impact self-paced physical or cognitive performance in normoxia or hypoxia	9
Physical performance and perception of foot discomfort during a soccer-specific match simulation. A comparison of football boots	9
Is machine learning and automatic classification of swimming data what unlocks the power of inertial measurement units in swimming?	9
Player-labelling as a solution to overcome maturation selection biases in youth football	9
Effects of overground surfaces on running kinematics and kinetics in habitual non-rearfoot strikers	8
Model invariance of the Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) from early childhood to young adulthood	8
Effective practice and instruction: A skill acquisition framework for excellence	8
Novel evidence on the effect of tramadol on self-paced high-intensity cycling	8
The effects of acute physical fatigue on sauté jump biomechanics in dancers	8
Sprinting kinematics and inter-limb coordination patterns at varying slope inclinations	8
Development of alternatives to estimate resting metabolic rate from anthropometric variables in paralympic swimmers	8
The origins of goals in the German Bundesliga	8
Injury risk factors and barriers to their mitigation for women playing rugby league: a Delphi study	8
Detrimental effects on executive function and mood following consecutive days of repeated high-intensity sprint interval exercise in trained male sports players	8
The impact of COVID-19 on dual career athletes: Three typologies of coping	8
Comparison of the effects of velocity-based vs. traditional resistance training methods on adaptations in strength, power, and sprint speed: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and quality of evidence	8
The effect of cold water immersion on the recovery of physical performance revisited: A systematic review with meta-analysis	8
Whistleblowing against doping in sport: A cross-national study on the effects of motivation and sportspersonship orientations on whistleblowing intentions	8
Impact of each release parameter on pitch location in baseball pitching	8
Developing motor competency in youths: Perceptions and practices of strength and conditioning coaches	8
How wide should you view to fight? Establishing the size of the visual field necessary for grip fighting in judo	8
Accuracy of the Apple Watch Series 6 and the Whoop Band 3.0 for assessing heart rate during resistance exercises	8
Physical activity, sports participation and exercise-related constraints in adult women with primary hypothyroidism treated with thyroid hormone replacement therapy	8
Impact of contextual factors on match demands experienced by elite male referees during international basketball tournaments	8
Analysing the predictive capacity and dose-response of wellness in load monitoring	8
Stepping up with GGIR: Validity of step cadence derived from wrist-worn research-grade accelerometers using the verisense step count algorithm	8
The role of perfectionism in predicting athlete burnout, training distress, and sports performance: A short-term and long-term longitudinal perspective	8
Effect of photobiomodulation therapy on performance and running economy in runners: A randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial	8
Jump rope training effects on health- and sport-related physical fitness in young participants: A systematic review with meta-analysis	8

The effect of a high-pressure protocol on penalty shooting performance, psychological, and psychophysiological response in professional football: A mixed methods study	7
Training load monitoring in team sports: a practical approach to addressing missing data	7
Outcomes of participation in parkrun, and factors influencing why and how often individuals participate: A systematic review of quantitative studies	7
Examining European Talent Development Environments: Athlete, Parent and Coach Perceptions	7
Effect of scaling basket height for young basketball players during the competition: seeking out positive sport experiences	7
Changes in physical activity during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Hypoalgesia following isometric handgrip exercise with and without blood flow restriction is not mediated by discomfort nor changes in systolic blood pressure	7
Cluster analysis of impairment measures to inform an evidence-based classification structure in RaceRunning, a new World Para Athletics event for athletes with hypertonia, ataxia or athetosis	7
Concurrent validity, inter-unit reliability and biological variability of a low-cost pocket radar for ball velocity measurement in soccer and tennis	7
Skill assessments in youth soccer: A scoping review	7
Techniques to derive and clean acceleration and deceleration data of athlete tracking technologies in team sports: A scoping review	7
Reliability of salivary cortisol and testosterone to a high-intensity cycling protocol to highlight overtraining	7
Serum sclerostin and cytokine responses to prolonged sculling exercise in highly-trained male rowers	7
Fatigue modifies hip and knee kinematics during single- and double-leg dynamic tasks: An investigation with female handball players	7
Real world complexities of periodization in a youth soccer academy: An explanatory sequential mixed methods approach	7
Relationship between pre-training wellness scores and internal and external training loads in a Division I women’s lacrosse team	7
Reliable and effective novel home-based training set-up for application of an evidence-based high-loading stimulus to improve triceps surae function	7
Lumbar bone stress injuries and risk factors in adolescent cricket fast bowlers	7
Application of a continuous pressure metric for Australian football	7
Bidirectional associations between emergency nurses’ occupational and leisure physical activity: An observational study	7
Singing off the same hymn sheet? Examining coherence in a talent development pathway (part 2)	7
Acute effects of overspeed stimuli with towing system on athletic sprint performance: A systematic review with meta-analysis	7
Self-reported walking pace: A simple screening tool with lowest risk of all-cause mortality in those that ‘walk the talk’	7
Moral values and moral identity moderate the indirect relationship between sport supplement use and doping use via sport supplement beliefs	7
Test-retest reliability and concurrent validity of the Adapted Short QUestionnaire to ASsess Health-enhancing physical activity (Adapted-SQUASH) in adults with disabilities	7
Bi-directional prospective associations between sedentary time, physical activity and adiposity in 10-year old Norwegian children	7
Moderators of strength gains and hypertrophy in resistance training: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Identifying actual and perceived motor competence based profiles among children	7
Preschool physical activity and fitness predicts conceptual, verbal and perceptual skills at school	6
Skeletal muscle and cerebral oxygenation levels during and after submaximal concentric and eccentric isokinetic exercise	6
Non-targeted metabolomics analyses by mass spectrometry to explore metabolic stress after six training weeks in high level swimmers.	6
Effects and dose–response relationship of high-intensity interval training on cardiorespiratory fitness in overweight and obese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Normative wrist-worn accelerometer values for self-paced walking and running: a walk in the park	6
Synthesising physical literacy research for ‘blank spots’: A Systematic review of reviews	6
The positive association between perceived parental responsiveness and self-esteem, anxiety, and thriving among youth rugby players: A multigroup analysis	6
The reliability, validity and sensitivity of an individualised sub-maximal fitness test in elite rugby league athletes	6
Dose-response association between the daily step count and all-cause mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Methods to determine saddle height in cycling and implications of changes in saddle height in performance and injury risk: A systematic review	6
The relationship between past exercise behavior and future exercise adherence: A sequential mediation analysis	6
Publication bias, statistical power and reporting practices in the Journal of Sports Sciences: potential barriers to replicability	6
Foot strike determines the center of pressure behavior and affects impact severity in heel-toe running	6
Around the world in 16 days: the effect of long-distance transmeridian travel on the sleep habits and behaviours of a professional Super Rugby team	6
Perspectives of a new sport-specific Para Shooting classification system for athletes with vision impairment	6
Comparing power hitting kinematics between skilled male and female cricket batters	6
Effects of dietary nitrate on the O2 cost of submaximal exercise: Accounting for “noise” in pulmonary gas exchange measurements	6
Relationships between anthropometric characteristics, block settings, and block clearance technique during the sprint start	6
Optimising classification of proximal arm strength impairment in wheelchair rugby: A proof of concept study	6
The relationship between trunk rotation and shot speed when performing ice hockey wrist shots	6
The effects of repeated backward running training on measures of physical fitness in youth male soccer players	6
Off-ball behavior in association football: A data-driven model to measure changes in individual defensive pressure	6
Seam or swing? Identifying the most effective type of bowling variation for fast bowlers in men’s international 50-over cricket	6
Female basketball game performance is influenced by menstrual cycle phase, age, perceived demands and game-related contextual factors	6
More than just another bib: group dynamics in an elite Nordic ski team	6
Effects of shear reduction shoes on joint loading, ground reaction force and free moment across different cutting angles	6
The recommendation for learners to be provided with control over their feedback schedule is questioned in a self-controlled learning paradigm	6
Scaling junior sport competition: A body-scaling approach?	6
Match simulation practice may not represent competitive match play in professional Australian football	6
Changes to horizontal force-velocity and impulse measures during sprint running acceleration with thigh and shank wearable resistance	6
Effects of age and sex on field-based measures of muscle strength and power of the upper and lower body in adolescents	6
Force-velocity-power profiling of maximal effort sprinting, jumping and hip thrusting: Exploring the importance of force orientation specificity for assessing neuromuscular function	6
The effects of 12-months supervised periodized training on health-related physical fitness in coronary artery disease: a randomized controlled trial	6
Howzat! Expert umpires use a gaze anchor to overcome the processing demands of leg before wicket decisions	6
Sequential movement pattern-mining (SMP) in field-based team-sport: A framework for quantifying spatiotemporal data and improve training specificity?	6
Effect of supervised sprint interval training on cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition in adolescent boys with obesity	5
Bayesian prediction of winning times for elite swimming events	5
Understanding lower limb blood flow occlusion parameters for use in field-based settings	5
Swimming sprint performance depends on upper/lower limbs strength and swimmers level	5
Effects of plyometric jump training versus power training using free weights on measures of physical fitness in youth male soccer players	5
Equivalence of activity outcomes derived from three research grade accelerometers worn simultaneously on each wrist	5
The role of weather conditions on time spent outdoors and in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among Norwegian preschoolers	5
Uphill sprinting load– and force–velocity profiling: Assessment and potential applications	5
The effect of ball possession on physical and technical performance in UEFA Champions league matches	5
Effect of rest period configurations on systemic inflammatory response in resistance-trained women	5
A longitudinal examination of changes in mental health among elite Canadian athletes	5
Modelling performance with exponential functions in elite short-track speed skaters	5
Cross-validation of cut-points in preschool children using different accelerometer placements and data axes	5
Classification of moderate-intensity overground walking speed in 21- to 85-year-old adults	5
Stay home and stay active? The impact of stay-at-home restrictions on physical activity routines in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The influence of technique and physical capacity on ball release speed in cricket fast-bowling	5
Arm – Leg coordination profiling during the dolphin kick and the arm pull-out in elite breaststrokers	5
Clustering of match running and performance indicators to assess between- and within-playing position similarity in professional rugby league	5
Physical activity during recess in elementary schoolchildren in Belgium and Ecuador: The role of the physical environment at school	5
A Coach Development Program: A Guided Online Reflective Practice Intervention Study	5
Effect of a 7-week low intensity synchronous handcycling training programme on physical capacity in abled-bodied women	5
Competition scheduling patterns of emerging elite players in professional men’s tennis	5
A prospective study of risk factors for hamstring injury in Australian football league players	5
The effects of shoe upper construction on mechanical ankle joint work during lateral shuffle movements	5
Backward Double Integration is a Valid Method to Calculate Maximal and Sub-Maximal Jump Height	5
Validating an algorithm from a trunk-mounted wearable sensor for detecting stroke events in tennis	5
Working memory network plasticity after exercise intervention detected by task and resting-state functional MRI	5
Associations between physical activity motives and trends in moderate-to-Vigorous physical activity among adolescents over five years	5
Characteristics of effective home-based resistance training in patients with noncommunicable chronic diseases: a systematic scoping review of randomised controlled trials	5
Rate of loading, but not lower limb kinematics or muscle activity, is moderated by limb and aerial variation when surfers land aerials	5
Assessing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in hip and knee osteoarthritis using accelerometers: Implications of different patterns and cut-points for health and well-being	5
Life after lockdown: The role of sport, exercise and physical activity in ameliorating the mental health implications of COVID-19 restrictions	5