OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is 7. 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 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
Coaching Generation Z: A response to McDougall et al.’s commentary	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
Preparing youth athletes for pressure: Mixed-methods effects of pressure inurement training on resilience and performance	14
“Supporting my daughter, the best way I can”: Parental support in youth golf	14
The usefulness of the useless: How ritualized behavior improves self-control under competition pressure	13
Features of successful high-performance sport environments: Stakeholder insights	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
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
Motivational self-talk mitigates the harmful impact of mental fatigue on endurance performance	11
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
Two on a tightrope: The stress experiences of the romantic partners of professional athletes	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
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
“What can you see? What can you hear?” The implementation of a behaviour-based mental toughness framework within international youth football	8
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
Coaching in the ‘alternate universe’ of U.S. Figure skating: A developmental perspective of need-supportive behavior in the coach-athlete relationship	7