OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Inhibitory Control Across Athletic Expertise and Its Relationship With Sport Performance	26
A Moral Intervention Reduces Doping Likelihood in British and Greek Athletes: Evidence From a Cluster Randomized Control Trial	25
Associations Between Physical Activity Enjoyment and Age-Related Decline in Physical Activity in Children—Results From a Longitudinal Within-Person Study	20
Athlete Burnout Symptoms Are Increasing: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Average Levels From 1997 to 2019	20
The Effects of Aerobic Versus Cognitively Demanding Exercise Interventions on Executive Functioning in School-Aged Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial	16
Experiences With Social Participation in Group Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults	14
When It HIITs, You Feel No Pain: Psychological and Psychophysiological Effects of Respite–Active Music in High-Intensity Interval Training	13
“Know That You’re Not Just Settling”: Exploring Women Athletes’ Self-Compassion, Sport Performance Perceptions, and Well-Being Around Important Competitive Events	12
Autonomy-Supportive Teaching Enhances Prosocial and Reduces Antisocial Behavior via Classroom Climate and Psychological Needs: A Multilevel Randomized Control Intervention	12
Seeing the Bigger Picture: Susceptibility to, and Detection of, Deception	11
The Two Dimensions of Passion for Sport: A New Look Using a Quadripartite Approach	10
The Influence of Environmental Constraints in 360° Videos on Decision Making in Soccer	10
Effectiveness of the Fun for Wellness Online Behavioral Intervention to Promote Well-Being Actions in Adults With Obesity or Overweight: A Randomized Controlled Trial	10
Relationships Between Physical Activity, Boredom Proneness, and Subjective Well-Being Among U.K. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Brain Stimulation Over the Motion-Sensitive Midtemporal Area Reduces Deleterious Effects of Mental Fatigue on Perceptual–Cognitive Skills in Basketball Players	8
“To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question”: Modeling and Differentiation Among Siblings Participating in Organized Youth Sport	8
The Defender’s Vision—Gaze Behavior of One-on-One Defenders in Basketball	8
A Methodological Checklist for Studies of Pleasure and Enjoyment Responses to High-Intensity Interval Training: Part II. Intensity, Timing of Assessments, Data Modeling, and Interpretation	8
Skill-Based Differences in the Detection and Utilization of Opponent Action Preferences Following Increasing Exposure and Changes in Tendencies	8
Affective Responses to Increasing- and Decreasing-Intensity Resistance Training Protocols	8
Understanding Relationships Between Social Identity, Sport Enjoyment, and Dropout in Adolescent Girl Athletes	8
How Do Profiles of Need-Supportive and Controlling Coaching Relate to Team Athletes’ Motivational Outcomes? A Person-Centered Approach	8
Athletes’ Psychological Needs and Coaches’ Interpersonal Behaviors: A Within-Person Latent Profile Analysis	8
How Do Sport Parents Engage in Autonomy-Supportive Parenting in the Family Home Setting? A Theoretically Informed Qualitative Analysis	7
Application of the Multi-Process Action Control Model to Predict Physical Activity During Late Adolescence	7

Social Support and Body Image in Group Physical Activity Programs for Older Women	7
Coding Body Language in Sports: The Nonverbal Behavior Coding System for Soccer Penalties	7
The Effect of Navigation Demand on Decision Making in a Dynamic, Sport-Inspired Virtual Environment	6
The Impact of Video Speed on the Estimation of Time Duration in Sport	6
“You Kick Like A Girl!” The Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Motor Skill Learning in Young Adolescents	6
Goal Motives and Well-Being in Student-Athletes: A Person-Centered Approach	6
Modeling Players’ Scanning Activity in Football	5
Can You Tell Who Scores? An Assessment of the Recognition of Affective States Based on the Nonverbal Behavior of Amateur Tennis Players in Competitive Matches	5
Transition-Related Psychosocial Factors and Mental Health Outcomes in Former National Football League Players: An NFL-LONG Study	4
Seemingly Uninvolved Players’ Impact on Assistant Referees’ Offside Decisions	4
Pulling the Trigger: The Effect of a 5-Minute Slow Diaphragmatic Breathing Intervention on Psychophysiological Stress Responses and Pressurized Pistol Shooting Performance	4
Examining the Relationship Between Exercise-Related Cognitive Errors, Exercise Schema, and Implicit Associations	4
A Temporal Study on Coach Behavior Profiles: Relationships With Athletes Coping and Affects Within Sport Competition	4
Measurement of Physical Activity Self-Efficacy in Adults With Obesity: A Latent Variable Approach to Explore Dimensionality, Temporal Invariance, and External Validity	4
Effects of Cooperation and Competition on Performance, Emotion, and Effort: Goal and Means Interdependence	4
Adjusting Identities When Times Change: The Role of Self-Compassion	4
Self-Compassion and Reactions to a Recalled Exercise Lapse: The Moderating Role of Gender-Role Schemas	4
Bulls in a China Shop: Narcissism, Intragroup Conflict, and Task Cohesion	4
Whistleblowing Against Doping Misconduct in Sport: A Reasoned Action Perspective With a Focus on Affective and Normative Processes	4
What Influences Children’s Physical Activity? Investigating the Effects of Physical Self-Concept, Physical Self-Guides, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation	3
A Methodological Checklist for Studies of Pleasure and Enjoyment Responses to High-Intensity Interval Training: Part I. Participants and Measures	3
North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Virtual Conference June 9-11, 2021	3
Pleasant Emotions Widen Thought–Action Repertoires, Develop Long-Term Resources, and Improve Reaction Time Performance: A Multistudy Examination of the Broaden-and-Build Theory Among Athletes	3
Context Affects Quiet Eye Duration and Motor Performance Independent of Cognitive Effort	3
Determinants of Virtual Exercise Equipment Use: An Integrated Model Investigation	3
Aerobic Fitness Unrelated to Acquisition of Spatial Relational Memory in College-Aged Adults	3
Burstiness and Stochasticity in the Malleability of Physical Activity	3
Effectiveness of Individual Exercise and Sport Counseling Based on Motives and Goals: A Randomized Controlled Trial	3
Neural Activity During Imagery Supports Three Imagery Abilities as Measured by the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-3	3
Impacts of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Action Observation Network and Sports Anticipation Task	3
Using Critical Incident Technique to Investigate Anxiety in Physical Activity Settings	3
The Home Advantage in the National Basketball Association Conference Finals and Finals Series From 1979 to 2019: A Mediation Analysis of Offensive and Defensive Skills	3
Evaluating the “Optimal Competition Parenting Workshop” Using the RE-AIM Framework: A 4-Year Organizational-Level Intervention in British Junior Tennis	3
Visual Strategies Underpinning the Spatiotemporal Demands During Visuomotor Tasks in Predicting Ball Direction	3
A Season-Long Examination of Team Structure and Its Implications for Subgroups in Individual Sport	3
Attitudes of Sport Fans Toward the Electronic Sign-Stealing Scandal in Major League Baseball: Differing Associations With Perfectionism and Excellencism	3
Cognitive–Perceptual–Affective–Motivational Dynamics During Incremental Workload Accounting for Exertion Tolerance	2
How Much Do Severely Injured Athletes Experience Sport Injury-Related Growth? Contrasting Psychological, Situational, and Demographic Predictors	2
Collective Emotions in Doubles Table Tennis	2
The Influence of Affective Priming on the Affective Response During Exercise: A Replication Study	2
Lifetime Stressor Exposure and Psychophysiological Reactivity and Habituation to Repeated Acute Social Stressors	2
Percentage of Peak Workload Is Suitable for Quantification of Exercise Intensity During High-Intensity Intervals: A Comment on Ekkekakis, Hartman, and Ladwig	2
Attenuation of the Köhler Effect in Racially Dissimilar Partnered Exercise Reversed Using Team Identity Strategy	2
Decision Outcomes in Sport: Influence of Type and Level of Stress	2
Female Athletes in Retirement: A Test of a Psychosocial Model of Bulimic Symptomatology	2
The Influence of Social Contexts on Motor and Cognitive Performance: Performing Alone, in Front of Others, or Coacting With Others	2
MAN v FAT Soccer: Feasibility Study and Preliminary Efficacy of a Sport-Based Weight-Loss Intervention for Overweight and Obese Men in Australia	2
The Temporal Relations of Adolescents’ Basic Need Satisfaction in Physical Education and Global Self-Worth	2
“Negative Things That Kids Should Never Have to Hear”: Exploring Women’s Histories of Weight Stigma in Physical Activity	2
“Fuelled by Passion”: Obsessive Passion Amplifies Positive and Negative Feelings Throughout a Hockey Playoff Series	2

The Impact of Wearing and Perceiving Colors on Hormonal, Physiological, and Psychological Parameters in Cycling	2
Longitudinal Associations Between Athletes’ Psychological Needs and Burnout Across a Competitive Season: A Latent Difference Score Analysis	2
Children’s Motivation Profiles in Sports and Physical Activities: A Latent Profile Analysis and Self-Determination Theory Approach	2
Examining the Role of Risk Compensation in Extreme Sports	2
The Believability of Exercise Blogs Among Young Adults	1
An Examination of the Challenge/Threat State and Sport-Performance Relationship While Controlling for Past Performance	1
Is It Really Worth the Effort? Examining the Effects of Mental Fatigue on Physical Activity Effort Discounting	1
Concussion Risk and Recovery in Athletes With Psychostimulant-Treated Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Findings From the NCAA-DOD CARE Consortium	1
Pilot Studies to Evaluate Feasibility of a Physical Activity Intervention for Persons With Depression	1
Trait Perfectionism and Dance Goals Among Young Female Dancers: An Application of the 2 × 2 Model of Perfectionism	1
Positive Implicit Associations for Physical Activity Predict Physical Activity and Affective Responses During Exercise	1
Experience-Dependent Modulation of Rubber Hand Illusion in Badminton Players	1
The Effects of Positive Versus Negative Self-Talk on Vertical Jump in Soccer Players: The Moderating Role of Need for Cognition	1
Social Supports and Barriers for Older Adults Not Participating in Group Physical Activity	1
A Perception–Action Assessment of the Functionality of Peripheral Vision in Expert and Novice Australian Footballers	1
Comparisons and Conversions: A Methodological Note and Caution for Meta-Analysis in Sport and Exercise Psychology	1
The Relationship of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support to Psychological Distress in Women Collegiate Athletes During COVID-19	1
“Beyond the Rink”: A Multilevel Analysis of Social Identity Behaviors Captured Using the Electronically Activated Recorder	1
Neither Too Easy Nor Too Difficult: Effects of Different Success Criteria on Motor Skill Acquisition in Children	1
Student Athletes’ Causal Attributions for Sport and School Achievement in Relation to Sport Dropout and Grade Point Average	1
An Examination of Dweck’s Psychological Needs Model in Relation to Exercise-Related Well-Being	1
Examining the Utility of Stress-, Motivation-, and Commitment-Based Perspectives of Athlete Burnout	1
Player Perceptions of Face Validity and Fidelity in 360-Video and Virtual Reality Cricket	1
Temporal Sequencing of Naturalistic Associations Between Body Satisfaction and Physical Activity: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Among Women in Midlife With Elevated Cardiovascular Risk	1