Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Flexor hallucis longus and tibialis anterior: A synergistic relationship71
Inter-session Reliability of Magnetic Nerve Stimulation and Within-Session comparison to Electrical Nerve Stimulation in Evaluating Neuromuscular Function of Knee Extensor Muscles62
Effects of repetition of a car-driving pedal maneuver and neural output in older adults50
A standard operating procedure for the evaluation of vertical jumps performance through surface electromyography assessment: A scoping review48
Myoelectric performance of the reconstructed elbow flexor in patients with brachial plexus injuries47
Regional differences in behaviors of fascicle and tendinous tissue of the biceps femoris long head during hamstring exercises46
Relationship between knee muscle activation and morphological changes in the infrapatellar fat pad in patients with knee osteoarthritis during gait37
Hamstring muscle shortens actively during the late swing phase of high-speed running35
Joint pressure stimuli increase quadriceps strength and neuromuscular activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis31
Lower limb postures resembling sitting and standing alter lumbar angles along the passive stiffness curve30
Skeletal muscle models composed of motor units: A review29
Variation of muscle recruitment during exercises performed below horizontal arm elevation that target the lower trapezius: A repeated measures cross-sectional study on asymptomatic individuals23
Whole-body kinematics of squats two decades following anterior cruciate ligament injury22
Accelerometric decoding of upper extremity movement intention in children with and without cerebral palsy: Complementary value of mechanomyography20
Tendon overuse models have different effects on tissue mechanical properties in ex vivo bovine tendons19
Muscle coactivation during knee joint-position sense assessments: the effect of muscle fatigue and implications for the magnitude of errors and directional bias17
Kinematic adaptations to restricting spine motion during symmetrical lifting16
Upper extremity neuromuscular function can distinguish between individuals with and without glenohumeral labral repair16
Automated estimation of ankle muscle EMG envelopes and resulting plantar-dorsi flexion torque from 64 garment-embedded electrodes uniformly distributed around the human leg15
Sex-specific myoelectric manifestations of localized fatigue during a multi-joint repetitive task15
Episiotomy and innervation zones of the external anal Sphincter: A case series investigating the impact on neurological patterns15
Development of EMG-based criteria to evaluate the difficulty of realization of sign language: A potential contribution for understanding the negative hand paintings15
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Optimal path for measurement of biceps femoris long head architecture using synchronized ultrasound and two-dimensional video probe kinematics13
Instruction during lifting: How analogy and explicit instruction influence performance and motor control13
Surface electromyographic frequency characteristics of the quadriceps differ between continuous high- and low-torque isometric knee extension to momentary failure13
Child-Adult differences in antagonist muscle coactivation: A systematic review12
Three-dimensional markerless pose estimation for anatomical landmarks of the shoulder and upper limb12
Passive stretching-induced changes in the spatial distribution of muscle excitation: A step forward in the interpretation of the underlying mechanisms12
The relationship between voluntary and electrically evoked muscle contractile properties in young women11
Alterations in peripheral joint muscle force control in adults with musculoskeletal disease, injury, surgery, or arthroplasty: A systematic review and meta-analysis11
Effects of gender and fatigue on strength and activity of gluteus medius muscle during a controlled cutting maneuver in preadolescent athletes11
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Estimating depth and strength of point-like sources in a conductive semi-space in the presence of electrode noise. Considerations on equivalent sources10
Greater distal excitation of the biceps femoris long head reflects proximodistal differences in motor unit action potential properties10
Assessing stroke-induced abnormal muscle coactivation in the upper limb using the surface EMG co-contraction Index: A systematic review10
Characteristics of lower limb skeletal muscle activity during walking in patients with knee osteoarthritis and knee extensor weakness: Comprehensive assessment using positron emission tomography10
Non-uniform excitation of pectoralis major induced by changes in bench press inclination leads to uneven variations in the cross-sectional area measured by panoramic ultrasonography10
Efficacy and safety of ultrasound-guided acupotomy in the treatment of spastic paralysis after stroke: a randomised controlled clinical trial study10
Reliability of reflex measurements and perceived instability following cutaneous stimulation during gait10
A pilot study investigating motor adaptations when learning to walk with a whole-body powered exoskeleton10
Hip muscle activity in people with hip-related pain compared to asymptomatic controls: A systematic review10
Lower extremity muscle patterns and frontal plane biomechanics are altered in the contralateral knee of adults with osteoarthritis compared to asymptomatic adults10
An articulated ankle foot orthosis with plantarflexion resistance decreased soleus and tibialis anterior muscle activity, and plantarflexion moment of the paretic lower limb of persons with stroke9
The effect of prolonged walking on leg muscle activity patterns and vulnerability to perturbations9
Increased trunk muscle recruitment during the golf swing is linked to developing lower back pain: A prospective longitudinal cohort study9
An objective method to quantify elbow flexor spasticity using surface EMG and 3D motion analysis9
Automated spatial localization of ankle muscle sites and model-based estimation of joint torque post-stroke via a wearable sensorised leg garment9
Machine-learning classification of postural sway in young adults during colored noisy vestibular stimulation8
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Evolution of surface electromyography: From muscle electrophysiology towards neural recording and interfacing8
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Reference values for near fiber EMG for the diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders8
Effects of triceps surae exercise-induced delayed onset muscle soreness on control of body stability in different postures8
Muscle activation and rating of perceived exertion of typically developing children during DRY and aquatic treadmill walking8
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Motor adaptations during stair ascent and descent in individuals with chronic primary low back pain8
Glenohumeral joint dynamics and rotator cuff health in youth manual wheelchair users with pediatric spinal cord injury and dysfunction8
Role of kinesiophobia in the selective motor control during gait in patients with low back-related leg pain8
Is the attenuation effect on the ankle muscles activity from the EMG biofeedback generalized to – or compensated by – other lower limb muscles during standing?8
NeuroMechanics: Electrophysiological and computational methods to accurately estimate the neural drive to muscles in humans in vivo7
Differences in motor unit behavior during isometric contractions in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy at various disease severities7
Influence of the number of muscles and strides on selective motor control during gait in individuals with cerebral palsy7
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The effect of back muscle fatigue on EMG and kinematics based estimation of low-back loads and active moments during manual lifting tasks7
Comparison of EMG activity in shank muscles between individuals with and without chronic ankle instability when running on a treadmill7
The influence of temperature on contractile properties of motor units in rat medial gastrocnemius6
The dynamic control ratio and its equilibrium point: A preliminary study of isokinetic fatiguing internal-external rotational effort of the shoulder joint in healthy subjects6
Does cross-education minimize the loss of muscle force and power and sEMG amplitude during short-term detraining in older women who are recreationally engaged in resistance training?6
Upper arm muscle activity is influenced by both forearm posture and wrist exertion direction during isometric wrist flexion and extension6
Algorithm for jitter measurement in neuromuscular junction disease6
Methodological influences on tensor fascia latae EMG during dynamic tasks: Electrode- and normalisation-dependent variability6
Cervical and axioscapular muscle stiffness measured with shear wave elastography: A comparison between different levels of work-related neck disability6
Investigating text neck syndrome and duration of mobile phone use, muscle activity, hand grip strength, posture, and disability6
Understanding the Biering-Sørensen test: Contributors to extensor endurance in young adults with and without a history of low back pain5
Determining whether biomechanical variables that describe common ‘safe lifting’ cues are associated with low back loads5
Altered muscle fibre activation in an antagonistic muscle pair due to perturbed afferent feedback caused by blood flow restriction5
Spinal kinematic variability is increased in people with chronic low back pain during a repetitive lifting task5
Relative contribution of altered neuromuscular factors to muscle activation-force relationships following chronic stroke: A simulation study5
Excitation distribution of the trapezius changes in response to increasing contraction intensity, but not repeated contractions5
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Linear spectrum and non-linear complexity features of lumbar muscle surface electromyography between people with and without non-specific chronic low back pain during Biering-Sorensen test5
Limb and sex-related differences in knee muscle co-contraction exist 3 months after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction5
Reduced plantar-flexors extensibility but improved selective motor control associated with age in young children with unilateral cerebral palsy and equinovalgus gait5
Males and females have different muscle activity patterns during gait after ACL injury and reconstruction5
JEK-ISEK tutorials on electromyography and kinesiology: A summary and a call for the next series of tutorials5
Does calibration pose improve scapular kinematic repeatability in functional tasks?5
Recovering from Laboratory-Induced slips and trips causes high levels of lumbar muscle activity and spine loading5
Trunk control in and out of an episode of recurrent low back pain in young adults during the Balance-Dexterity Task5
Spatial distribution of erector spinae activity is related to task-specific pain-related fear during a repetitive object lifting task5
Impact of age on muscle and kinematic responses to an obstacle trip while walking4
Effect of knee joint angle on vastus medialis and vastus lateralis rigidity during isometric submaximal voluntary knee extensions4
Neural control of human inspiratory muscles. What have we learnt from the study of single motor units?4
Quantification of the forearm muscles mechanical properties using Myotonometer: Intra- and Inter-Examiner reliability and its relation with hand grip strength4
Automatic detection of swallowing events based on surface electromyography4
Real-time changes in rate of torque development and corticospinal excitability during transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in healthy individuals4
Validation of an EMG submaximal method to calibrate a novel dynamic EMG-driven musculoskeletal model of the trunk: Effects on model estimates4
Training adaptations in magnetomyography4
Persistent inward currents in tibialis anterior motoneurons can be reliably estimated within the same session4
Inter-limb neuromuscular activity of the gastrocnemius muscle during unilateral and bilateral explosive jumps and relationship with jump performance4
Treadmill induced belt-accelerations may not accurately evoke the muscle responses to obstacle trips in older people4
Measurement of voluntary activation of abdominal flexors using transcranial magnetic stimulation4
Measurement of maximal voluntary isometric lower limb muscle strength using a hand-held dynamometer in a non-injured healthy population: A systematic review of reference values, protocols, and sex dif4
Methodical approaches to determine the rate of radial muscle displacement using tensiomyography: A scoping review and new reporting guideline4
Estimating maximum acceptable duty cycles (MADC) for overhead exertions4
WITHDRAWN: Spatiotemporal gait patterns in individuals with unilateral transfemoral amputation: A hierarchical cluster analysis4
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Reliability of sEMG data of back muscles during static submaximal loading situations − Values and pitfalls4
Calculating Turns/Amplitude peak ratio of EMG interference pattern by using logistic curve fitting4
Supervised exercise with or without laser-guided feedback for people with non-specific chronic low back pain. A randomized controlled clinical trial4
A U-Net based partial convolutional time-domain separation model to identify motor units from surface electromyographic signals in real time4
Acute and chronic effects of static stretching of different target muscles on shear elastic modulus: A narrative review4
A fast gradient convolution kernel compensation method for surface electromyogram decomposition3
Strength and endurance of the lumbar extensor muscles and their predictors: A cross-sectional study in healthy subjects3
Electromyographic assessment of agonist and antagonist muscles related to the anterior cruciate ligament following surgical Reconstruction: A Cross-Sectional study3
Impact of different ranges of motion in the prone barbell row on muscle excitation3
Motor unit firing patterns of lower leg muscles during isometric plantar flexion with flexed knee joint position3
Delayed onset muscle soreness effect on spinal stiffness and flexion-relaxation phenomenon of the lumbar spine3
Tutorial on MUedit: An open-source software for identifying and analysing the discharge timing of motor units from electromyographic signals3
Influence of eccentric strength of knee extensor muscles on biomechanical factors of a vertical drop jump3
Comparing motor unit number estimation techniques3
Using force or EMG envelope as feedback signal for motor control system3
Finger dexterity measured by the Grooved Pegboard test indexes Parkinson’s motor severity in a tremor-independent manner3
Neuromechanical adaptation of a perturbation protocol during treadmill running3
Electromyography study of six parts of the latissimus dorsi during reaching tasks while seated: A comparison between healthy subjects and stroke patients3
Hamstrings corticomotor and neuromechanical function in individuals with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction3
Effects of peripheral fatigue of ankle evertors on force sense and electromyographic activity in healthy subjects3
Consensus for experimental design in electromyography (CEDE) project: Checklist for reporting and critically appraising studies using EMG (CEDE-Check)3
Sex-specific effects of fatiguing handgrip plus blood flow restriction on upper limb neuromuscular characteristics during a repetitive shoulder height task3
Does pain alter the spatial distribution of muscle activity in people experiencing spinal pain? A systematic review and meta-analysis3
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Changes in knee joint angle affect to a negligible extent the distribution of motor points—the motor zones—in the quadriceps muscles3
Effect of tasks on intramuscular regional differences in rectus femoris elasticity during isometric contraction: An ultrasound shear wave elastography study3
The unprecedented progresses in neuromechanics over the past 50 years – In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the international society of biomechanics3
Diagnostic value of EMG of sternocleidomastoid and trapezius in assessing bulbar lower motor neuron involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients3
Establishing a methodological framework for evaluating gait symmetry through muscle synergies: A pilot study3
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What are my muscles up to? The contribution of surface electromyography to clinical decision-making3
Effects of neuromuscular training on proprioception and muscular reaction time in older woman: Randomized controlled trial3
Validation of proprioception measures of the lumbar spine3
Reliability of lower leg muscle elasticity using shear wave elastography in non-weight-bearing and weight-bearing3
Bilateral activation failure of ankle dorsiflexors in patients with hip osteoarthritis undergoing total hip arthroplasty3
The effect of skilled motor training on corticomotor control of back muscles in different presentations of low back pain3
High-density EMG reveals atypical spatial activation of the gastrocnemius during walking in adolescents with Cerebral Palsy2
Assessment of common electrode placement methods for surface electromyography recordings of the triceps surae muscles2
Machine learning-based estimation of EMG baseline noise standard deviation without rest trials2
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging can be used to access single motor units in deep muscles, but the underlying biomechanical source remains to be understood2
Gait pathomechanics in early-stage knee osteoarthritis: do non-traumatic and post-traumatic patients walk differently?2
Comparison of concentric and eccentric resistance training in terms of changes in the muscle contractile properties2
Corrigendum to “Roc-based validation of palmar sensory latency in Carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis”. [J. Electromyogr. Kinesiol. 87 (2026) 103112]2
Performance fatigability on a constant-load dynamic task is greater in females with moderate-severity Parkinson’s disease than healthy-aging controls2
Validation of the filling factor index to study the filling process of the sEMG signal in the quadriceps2
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Cumulative creep response of viscoelastic lumbar tissue as a function of work-rest schedule2
Neuromechanical adaptations in the gastrocnemius muscle after Achilles tendon rupture during walking2
Spatiotemporal lower-limb asymmetries during stair descent in athletes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction2
Electrical cutaneous stimulation of the foot sole does not enhance rate of torque development during maximal effort isometric plantarflexion in females2
Analysis of agricultural applicability of arm-support exoskeletons with simulated orchard pruning and harvesting tasks2
Soleus muscle and Achilles tendon compressive stiffness is related to knee and ankle positioning2
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Task-related differences in peroneus longus muscle fiber conduction velocity2
The influence of muscle shapes on HDsEMG decomposition yield and accuracy2
Acute neuromuscular responses to whole-body vibration in healthy individuals: A systematic review2
Transcranial magnetic stimulation and electrical stimulation techniques used to measure the excitability of distinct neuronal populations that influence motor output in people with persistent musculos2
Pain-related threat and coordination in adults with chronic low back pain during a lifting task: A cross-sectional study2
Clustering index analysis on EMG-Torque relation-based representation of complex neuromuscular changes after spinal cord injury2
Wavelet-based time-frequency intermuscular beta-band coherence decreases with age but increases after mental fatigue in ankle muscles during gait independent of age2
RE: The article entitled “Effect of footwear on intramuscular EMG activity of plantar flexor muscles in walking” by Péter, A., Arndt, A., Hegyi, A., Finni, T., Andersson, E., Alkjaer, T., Tarassova, O2
Hamstrings-quadriceps strength ratio could be related to falls in community-living older adults2
Low back muscle action potential conduction velocity estimated using high-density electromyography2
Impaired force control and muscle activation during isometric contractions in people with multiple sclerosis2
Sex differences in myoelectric manifestations of shoulder fatigue in time–frequency and complexity domains during a repetitive shoulder height task2
Sex-Specific associations between hip muscle strength and foot progression angle2
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