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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychological states underlying excellent performance in sport: A paradigm shift toward multiple-state perspectives	34
The PsychMapping exercise – revised: Exercise development and practitioner and client experiences	27
Suicidal ideation among Chinese national team elite athletes	25
Mental health service provision in elite sport: An evaluation of the Australian Institute of Sport Mental Health Referral Network	25
Coaching generation Z: A response to Gould et al. from a critical cultural perspective	23
An inhibitory retrieval approach for maximizing exposure therapy in elite sport	21
Coaching Generation Z: A response to McDougall et al.’s commentary	20
« I won’t lie in my head it’s just ‘Fight, fight, fight’ »: relationships between emotional processes and attentional focus in a competitive context	18
A commentary: Aspiring athletes’ transition literacy and beyond	17
“I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic	15
UK professional male cricketers’ mental health and support experiences: A qualitative exploration	14
Using a culturally humble approach to examine and address disordered eating in sport	14
Cultivating legacies and connections: A narrative analysis of Instagram stories of retired elite athlete mothers through an ethic of care lens	14
Brief report: A proximal external focus does not benefit skilled skiers	13
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative	12
The usefulness of the useless: How ritualized behavior improves self-control under competition pressure	12
Black Student-Athletes and racism pandemic: Building antiracist practices in athletics	12
“Supporting my daughter, the best way I can”: Parental support in youth golf	12
Motivational self-talk mitigates the harmful impact of mental fatigue on endurance performance	11
Two on a tightrope: The stress experiences of the romantic partners of professional athletes	11
Presentation of self, impression management and the period: A qualitative investigation of physically active women’s experiences in sport and exercise	10
Performance safety: conceptualising psychological safety when errors have consequences	10
Dialogue in athletics: A program evaluation of a social justice education initiative in high school sports	10
Why do people cycle (a lot)? A multivariate approach on mental health, personality traits and motivation as determinants for cycling ambition	9
How do goal orientations and motivational climate interact to affect short-term performance and self-confidence in sport? A test of the matching hypothesis across three studies	9

Exploring the meta-transitions of first level elite athletes in the Chinese Whole Nation System: A polyphonic reflective tale	9
Lessons learned from meaningful work: Implications for understanding meaningfulness in elite/high performance sport	9
Māori exercise professionals: Using Indigenous knowledge to connect the space between performance and wellbeing	9
Brief report: Exploring the icing the kicker strategy in the NFL	9
Swim-Bike-Mum: Exploring postpartum experiences of triathlete mothers	9
A qualitative analysis of novice and expert mental performance consultants’ professional philosophies	9
Elite athletes report lower psychological safety and are less likely to report interpersonal violence compared to recreational athletes: A cross-sectional study	8
Division I level athletes respond more favorably to caring, task-involving climates while ego-involving climates trigger concerning psychophysiological stress responses during a brief experimental inv	8
Classification in sport: Exploring the experiences of elite British athletes with a disability	8
Applying an individualized psychosocial skills and characteristics development programme into an English male professional soccer academy	8
“Are you here for performance or are you here for well-being?” Using participatory research to promote thriving in a British Olympic sport organization	8
The pursuit of optimal dual career balance by athletes in women’s professional ice hockey	8
Psychological skills training and perfectionism: A single-subject multiple baseline study	8
“It’s not handcuffing the athlete to success or failure”: Sport psychology practitioners’ use of nonspecific goals in applied contexts	7
Coaching in the ‘alternate universe’ of U.S. Figure skating: A developmental perspective of need-supportive behavior in the coach-athlete relationship	7
“What can you see? What can you hear?” The implementation of a behaviour-based mental toughness framework within international youth football	7
Research note: Evaluating the efficacy of an online post event reflection tool in competitive sport	7
Exploring the interplay of functional and dysfunctional environmental features for holistic development: A case study in a German Olympic sport	7
Psychological stress and psychological well-being among sports coaches: A close proximity longitudinal daily diary study	7
Coaching for winning or holistic athlete development, or both? Validation of the two-dimensional Identity of Sport Coaches Scale (2-DISCS)	6
Student-athletes’ mood state profiles: the role of sports, sex, and performance level in sports and in school	6
Athlete leader development: The perspectives of athlete leaders, teammates, and coaches	6
Exploring stressors in elite rugby league (NRL/NRLW) players	6
A qualitative exploration of neophyte sport psychology practitioners self-care experiences and perceptions	6
Imagery training for athletes with low imagery abilities	6
From mind to marksmanship: Harnessing brief mindfulness meditation to enhance attention control and performance in novice athletes	6
Confidentiality and surveillance challenges for psychologists working in men’s football academies in England	6
Emotional intelligence training program for adolescents involved in intensive training centers	6
Navigating psychological membership in sport organizations: Exploring sport employees’ identities	5
Process evaluation of Ahead of the Game: Underlying mechanisms of a sports-based mental health literacy intervention	5
Special Olympics athletes’ experiences of mental health and help-seeking	5
Managing vulnerabilities in practitioner decision-making within sport psychology services: Responding to the evidence base	5
Mindful self-reflection as a strategy to support sustainable high-performance coaching: A mixed method study	5
The retain-release process in elite youth football academies: Parent perceptions and recommendations for minimising harm	5
Four domains for development for all (4D4D4All): A holistic, physical literacy framework	5
From distress to success: Serial winning coaches’ strategies to reestablish adaptive culture and successful performance	5
Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions	5
A qualitative exploration of the influence of high lifetime stressor exposure on sports performers interpretations of daily life stressors	4
Self-regulating recovery: Athlete perspectives on implementing recovery from elite endurance training	4
Evaluation of a compassion-based intervention targeting high-performance coaches	4
Body confident coaching: a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the acceptability of a web-based body image intervention for coaches of adolescent girls	4
Is self-regulation key in reducing running-related injuries and chronic fatigue? A randomized controlled trial among long-distance runners	4
Part I of a two-step mixed-methods approach in developing the Growth Talent Mindsets for Sports Coaches Intervention: The design and targeting of the intervention	4
Playful sport design: A game changer?	4
Considering the cost(s) of the game: Consumer behavior and parents in youth ice hockey	4
Parents in the parasport pathway: Parental experiences of facilitating their child’s engagement in competitive disability sport	4
Development and psychometric properties of the supporting mental health in sport instrument	4
An interpretive description of the emotions experienced by vocational dance students and their use of emotion regulation strategies	4
“Being a woman in the men’s game, it’s brutal”: A longitudinal photo-elicitation exploration of a woman football coach’s well-being	4
A commentary on high-performance athletes’ retirement and mental health: from mental health and transition literacy to athletic retirement literacy	3

Building the “team behind the team”: A 21-month instrumental case study of the Swedish 2018 FIFA World Cup team	3
A revised approach to professional philosophy for sport and exercise psychology practitioners	3
The Sport Psychology Canvas : Designing, adapting, and documenting Sport Psychology provisions in men’s football academies in England	3
Black Canadian university football players’ perspectives on the coach-athlete relationship	3
“We are their last chance”: A case study of a college basketball environment in an American underserved community	3
Exploring the processes of evidence-informed decision-making in applied sport psychology	3
Athletes’ perceptions of unsupportive parental behaviours in competitive female youth golf	3
Supporting parents of male academy footballers: An action research study	3
An in-depth exploration of a positional subgroup in professional sport	3
A sport-specific ACT group intervention for promoting athletes’ mental well-being: a randomized controlled trial	3
What would you do? Developing, implementing and evaluating a coach bystander intervention to prevent sexual violence in youth sports clubs	3
“We’re all in this together. We’re a real team.” Perceptions of powerchair sport in Canada	3
An exploration of coaches’ and sport psychologists’ experiences of managing performance blocks	3