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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The PsychMapping exercise – revised: Exercise development and practitioner and client experiences	37
Mental health service provision in elite sport: An evaluation of the Australian Institute of Sport Mental Health Referral Network	27
Suicidal ideation among Chinese national team elite athletes	25
Psychological states underlying excellent performance in sport: A paradigm shift toward multiple-state perspectives	22
Coaching Generation Z: A response to McDougall et al.’s commentary	20
Coaching generation Z: A response to Gould et al. from a critical cultural perspective	20
“I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic	20
An inhibitory retrieval approach for maximizing exposure therapy in elite sport	20
A commentary: Aspiring athletes’ transition literacy and beyond	18
« I won’t lie in my head it’s just ‘Fight, fight, fight’ »: relationships between emotional processes and attentional focus in a competitive context	17
Cultivating legacies and connections: A narrative analysis of Instagram stories of retired elite athlete mothers through an ethic of care lens	16
Brief report: A proximal external focus does not benefit skilled skiers	15
Anticipating optimal climbing solutions: Evidence from Olympic Bouldering	15
“Supporting my daughter, the best way I can”: Parental support in youth golf	14
Preparing youth athletes for pressure: Mixed-methods effects of pressure inurement training on resilience and performance	14
Features of successful high-performance sport environments: Stakeholder insights	13
The usefulness of the useless: How ritualized behavior improves self-control under competition pressure	13
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative	12
Understanding scanning and development of perceptual expertise: A qualitative study using eye-tracking methodology	12
Motivational self-talk mitigates the harmful impact of mental fatigue on endurance performance	11
Performance safety: conceptualising psychological safety when errors have consequences	11
Exercise enjoyment and depressive symptoms for university students in a mental health service: An intensive repeated measures study	11
Two on a tightrope: The stress experiences of the romantic partners of professional athletes	10
Why do people cycle (a lot)? A multivariate approach on mental health, personality traits and motivation as determinants for cycling ambition	10
Exploring the meta-transitions of first level elite athletes in the Chinese Whole Nation System: A polyphonic reflective tale	10

Swim-Bike-Mum: Exploring postpartum experiences of triathlete mothers	10
Brief report: Exploring the icing the kicker strategy in the NFL	10
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	10
‘We are first responders’: Coaches’ management of suicide-related thoughts and behaviors among young people in sport	9
Lessons learned from meaningful work: Implications for understanding meaningfulness in elite/high performance sport	9
Trajectories of mental health indicators in elite athletes before, during, and after major sports competitions: Evidence from Australian swimmers	9
Eating disorder recovery among athletes: A grounded theory of key people and actions involved in athletes’ recovery and reintegration into sports	9
Classification in sport: Exploring the experiences of elite British athletes with a disability	9
“What can you see? What can you hear?” The implementation of a behaviour-based mental toughness framework within international youth football	8
Defining the “choke” is no joke: Using a Delphi method to reach expert consensus on a choking under pressure definition in sport	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
The pursuit of optimal dual career balance by athletes in women’s professional ice hockey	8
Applying an individualized psychosocial skills and characteristics development programme into an English male professional soccer academy	8
Psychological skills training and perfectionism: A single-subject multiple baseline study	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
Coaching in the ‘alternate universe’ of U.S. Figure skating: A developmental perspective of need-supportive behavior in the coach-athlete relationship	7
Elite athletes report lower psychological safety and are less likely to report interpersonal violence compared to recreational athletes: A cross-sectional study	7
Reclaiming the game: Challenges and opportunities to address mental health in youth sport	7
“It’s not handcuffing the athlete to success or failure”: Sport psychology practitioners’ use of nonspecific goals in applied contexts	7
Exploring the interplay of functional and dysfunctional environmental features for holistic development: A case study in a German Olympic sport	7
Imagery training for athletes with low imagery abilities	6
Research note: Evaluating the efficacy of an online post event reflection tool in competitive sport	6
Psychological stress and psychological well-being among sports coaches: A close proximity longitudinal daily diary study	6
Emotional intelligence training program for adolescents involved in intensive training centers	6
Student-athletes’ mood state profiles: the role of sports, sex, and performance level in sports and in school	6
Confidentiality and surveillance challenges for psychologists working in men’s football academies in England	6
Overcoming barriers to coaching success: Exploring the developmental networks of elite women coaches	6
The retain-release process in elite youth football academies: Parent perceptions and recommendations for minimising harm	5
Exploring stressors in elite rugby league (NRL/NRLW) players	5
From mind to marksmanship: Harnessing brief mindfulness meditation to enhance attention control and performance in novice athletes	5
An interpretive description of the emotions experienced by vocational dance students and their use of emotion regulation strategies	5
Four domains for development for all (4D4D4All): A holistic, physical literacy framework	5
Mindful self-reflection as a strategy to support sustainable high-performance coaching: A mixed method study	5
Process evaluation of Ahead of the Game: Underlying mechanisms of a sports-based mental health literacy intervention	5
Coaching for winning or holistic athlete development, or both? Validation of the two-dimensional Identity of Sport Coaches Scale (2-DISCS)	5
Through the coach’s lens: Exploring social support functions and social networks via photo-elicitation	5
Development and psychometric properties of the supporting mental health in sport instrument	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
Special Olympics athletes’ experiences of mental health and help-seeking	4
Mental health literacy in elite-level coaches: Recognition and management of depression and burnout	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
Evaluation of a compassion-based intervention targeting high-performance coaches	4
From distress to success: Serial winning coaches’ strategies to reestablish adaptive culture and successful performance	4
Self-regulating recovery: Athlete perspectives on implementing recovery from elite endurance training	4
Playful sport design: A game changer?	3
A qualitative exploration of the influence of high lifetime stressor exposure on sports performers interpretations of daily life stressors	3
A revised approach to professional philosophy for sport and exercise psychology practitioners	3
“We’re all in this together. We’re a real team.” Perceptions of powerchair sport in Canada	3
Sport and exercise psychologists’ perspectives of supporting adolescent mental health in diversionary sport: A story completion study	3
Parents in the parasport pathway: Parental experiences of facilitating their child’s engagement in competitive disability sport	3

What would you do? Developing, implementing and evaluating a coach bystander intervention to prevent sexual violence in youth sports clubs	3
The effect of the mental health literacy intervention program on improving help-seeking among Chinese elite athletes: A randomized controlled trial	3
Body confident coaching: a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the acceptability of a web-based body image intervention for coaches of adolescent girls	3
“We are their last chance”: A case study of a college basketball environment in an American underserved community	3
A sport-specific ACT group intervention for promoting athletes’ mental well-being: a randomized controlled trial	3
A commentary on high-performance athletes’ retirement and mental health: from mental health and transition literacy to athletic retirement literacy	3
Exploring the processes of evidence-informed decision-making in applied sport psychology	3
From thoughts to action: Athletes’ perspectives on anti-doping legitimacy, and their behavioral support for anti-doping policies	2
Potential moderators and mediators of intervention effects in a sport-based mental health literacy and resilience program for adolescent men	2
An exploration of coaches’ and sport psychologists’ experiences of managing performance blocks	2
Black Canadian university football players’ perspectives on the coach-athlete relationship	2
An in-depth exploration of a positional subgroup in professional sport	2
Cultural competence in a multinational group of sport psychology professionals	2
Does knowledge relate to action?: The connection between mental health literacy, self-stigma, attitudes, and intentions for NCAA coaches	2
Mental practice improves pass accuracy in elite rugby players	2
Experienced emotions, emotion regulation strategies, and regulation depletion in collective team collapse and performance recovery situations	2
Changes in perceptions of coach- and peer-created motivational climates during the children-to-youth sport transition	2
The what, why, and how of goal setting: A review of the goal-setting process in applied sport psychology practice	2
Construction and communication of evidence-based video narratives in elite sport: Knowledge translation of sports injury experiences	2
Differentiated pathways in upper secondary school. World-class Swedish athletes experiences	2
Supporting parents of male academy footballers: An action research study	2
The Sport Psychology Canvas : Designing, adapting, and documenting Sport Psychology provisions in men’s football academies in England	2
Athletes’ perceptions of unsupportive parental behaviours in competitive female youth golf	2