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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A renewed call to queer sport psychology	25
Reimagining positive youth development and life skills in sport through a social justice lens	24
Irrational beliefs and choking under pressure: A preliminary investigation	21
“The forgotten session”: Advancing research and practice concerning the psychology of rest in athletes	18
Self-talk and emotions in tennis players during competitive matches	14
Student-athlete disclosures of psychological distress: Exploring the experiences of university coaches and athletes	14
A systematic review of sport-based life skills programs for young people: The quality of design and evaluation methods	13
Reflections on the Field of Mental Health in Sport: Critical Issues and Ways of Moving Forward	12
Helping soccer players help themselves: Effectiveness of a psychoeducational book in reducing perfectionism	10
Mental toughness in sport: The Goal-Expectancy-Self-Control (GES) model	10
Navigating the winds of change on the smooth sea - The interaction of feedback and emotional disruption on the talent pathway	10
Psychological aspects of sport-related concussion: An evidence-based position paper	9
Athlete perceptions of playing-up in youth soccer	9
The state of diversity in the Association for Applied Sport Psychology: Gaining momentum or still swimming upstream?	9
Mindful self-reflection to support sustainable high-performance coaching: A process evaluation of a novel method development in elite sport	8
The Athlete Gratitude Group (TAGG): Effects of coach participation in a positive psychology intervention with youth athletes	8
A randomized controlled study of mindful sport performance enhancement and psychological skills training with collegiate track and field athletes	8
Implementing a pressure training program to improve decision-making and execution of skill among premier league academy soccer players	8
The role and creation of pressure in training: Perspectives of athletes and sport psychologists	8
Fast talkers? Investigating the influence of self-talk on mental toughness and finish times in 800-meter runners	8
Psychological characteristics and future success: A prospective study examining youth soccer players at different stages within the German talent development pathway	7
Support for athletes with eating psychopathology symptoms: Exploring the views of athletes, coaches and sport practitioners	7
Intercollegiate perfectionistic athletes’ perspectives on success and failure in sport	7
UK professional male cricketers’ mental health and support experiences: A qualitative exploration	7
Applied psychology of sport injury: Getting to—and moving across—The Valley of death	7

The Gold Medal Profile for Sport Psychology (GMP-SP)	7
“All they have seen is a model for failure:” Stakeholder’s perspectives on athletic talent development in American underserved communities	6
“The principles are good, but they need to be integrated in the right way”: Experimenting with creativity in elite youth soccer	6
Development and preliminary validation of the sports competition rumination scale (SCRS)	6
A grounded theory of the influences affecting youth sport experiences and withdrawal patterns	6
Mental toughness measures: A systematic review of measurement properties for practitioners	6
The what and the how of self-care for sport psychology practitioners: A delphi study	6
Elite figure skaters’ experiences of thriving in the coach-athlete relationship: A person-centered theory perspective	5
“Think about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it”: Coach feedback, athlete self-regulation, and male youth hockey players	5
Psychological support for the talent pathway: Qualitative process evaluation of a state sport academy’s psychology service	5
Getting published: Suggestions and strategies from editors of sport and exercise psychology journals	5
Cultural competence in a multinational group of sport psychology professionals	5
Professional training and development: The bedrock of ethical, competent, and sustainable sport psychology	5
Gathering narratives: Athletes’ experiences preparing for the Tokyo summer olympic games during a global pandemic	5
The role of self-care and professional quality of life in sustaining a long-lasting career in sport psychology: A qualitative exploration	5
Building the “team behind the team”: A 21-month instrumental case study of the Swedish 2018 FIFA World Cup team	4
“Never having the right to make a mistake, I think that’s the hardest part of being an official”: Exploring young sport officials’ experiences of abuse and their related coping mechanisms	4
Facilitating life skills transfer from sport to the classroom: An intervention assisting a high school teacher-coach	4
Examinations of change in inhibitory and initiatory Self-Control in the context of endurance running	4
Mindfulness training for a college team: Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness from within an athletic department	4
A longitudinal study on the psychological and physiological predictors of burnout in NCAA collegiate swimmers	4
Psychosocial demands and situational properties of the club-to-international transition in male youth football	4
Sport arbitration as an emergent process in a complex system: Decision-making variability is a marker of expertise in national-level football referees	4
A season long investigation of social emotional learning associated with high school basketball participation	4
The quest for professional self-understanding: Sense making and the interpersonal nature of applied sport psychology practice	4
The potential benefits of nonspecific goals in physical activity promotion: Comparing open, do-your-best, and as-well-as-possible goals in a walking task	4
Women in a man’s world: Coaching women in elite sport	4
From superhero to human: A narrative analysis of digital news stories of retirement from the NFL due to injury	4
Facilitating the development of shared athlete leadership: Insights from intercollegiate coaches	4
Parental strategies for supporting children’s psychosocial development within and beyond elite sport	4
Exploring runners’ perspectives of potential strategies for flow interventions	4
The lived experience of sport-related concussion: A collaborative inquiry in elite sport	3
Athletes’ motivational and emotional outcomes related to a Need-Supportive intervention in intensive training centers	3
The sisters of sport psychology: An examination of the professional black female experience	3
A qualitative analysis of novice and expert mental performance consultants’ professional philosophies	3
Coincidence and conditions: An in-depth case study of a successful age group within a grassroots football club	3
Social support among older adults in group physical activity programs	3
Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions	3
Embrace the challenge: Acknowledging a challenge following negative Self-Talk improves performance	3
Negotiating identity and the development of incremental mindset in a female adolescent sport context	3
Potential moderators and mediators of intervention effects in a sport-based mental health literacy and resilience program for adolescent men	3
A double-edged sword: The nature of team comedians in sport teams	3
Negotiating white normativity in sport	3
A qualitative exploration of neophyte sport psychology practitioners self-care experiences and perceptions	3
Pathway decisions during the student-athlete transition out of university in the United Kingdom	3
Emotional intelligence training program for adolescents involved in intensive training centers	2
Challenging the status quo of sport injury psychology to advance theory, research, and applied practice: An epilogue to a special issue	2
Objective and subjective performance indicators of clutch performance in basketball: A mixed-methods multiple case study	2
Is self-regulation key in reducing running-related injuries and chronic fatigue? A randomized controlled trial among long-distance runners	2
Construction and communication of evidence-based video narratives in elite sport: Knowledge translation of sports injury experiences	2

Athletes’ perspectives of preparation strategies in open-skill sports	2
Athlete leader development: The perspectives of athlete leaders, teammates, and coaches	2
Why do people cycle (a lot)? A multivariate approach on mental health, personality traits and motivation as determinants for cycling ambition	2
What does it mean to be “mentally tough” as a NCAA division I collegiate coach?	2
Beyond “a good fit”: Examining effective mentorship for BIPOC practitioners in a predominantly white profession	2
Effects of a multifaceted team goal-setting intervention for youth volleyball teams	2
Playful sport design: A game changer?	2
How women varsity athletes high in self-compassion experience unexpected stressors	2
A retrospective investigation of the perceived influence of coaches, parents and peers on talented football players’ motivation during development	2
“It’s all about opportunity”: From professional contract to first-team regular	2
Tripartite efficacy and behavior of clients working with a personal trainer	2
Mental toughness in youth sport coaches: A phenomenological exploration	2
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment: Stigma, impression management strategies, and the dangers of the performance narrative	2
Psychological skills training and perfectionism: A single-subject multiple baseline study	2
Coaching generation Z: A response to Gould et al from a critical cultural perspective	2