OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Motor Control is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of a Perturbation-Based Balance Training Session on Adaptive Locomotor Response in Older Adults With a History of Falls	20
Are Men and Women Equally Affected by Load Carriage While Landing? Analysis of Balance in Spanish Infantry Soldiers	16
Motor Control Needs to Build More Bridges Across Levels of Analysis	16
Erratum: Liu et al. (2021)	11
Effects of 4 Weeks of Variability Training on Forehand Approach Precision and Velocity in Recreational Tennis Players	10
Kinematics and Esthetics of Grand Battement After Static and Dynamic Hamstrings Stretching in Adolescents	10
State and Trait Fatigue and Energy Predictors of Postural Control and Gait	9
Interfinger Synchronization Capability of Paired Fingers in Discrete Fine-Force Control Tasks	9
Expertise- and Tempo-Related Performance Differences in Unimanual Drumming	8
Hip Sway in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis During One-Leg Standing With a Focus on Time Series Data	7
Specific Contribution of the Transversus Abdominis for Postural Control Against Perturbation Caused by Kinesthetic Illusion	7
Examining the Mechanisms of Internal and External Focus of Attention With Donders’ Subtractive Method	6
Role of Post-Trial Visual Feedback on Unintentional Force Drift During Isometric Finger Force Production Tasks	6
Effects of Soccer Exercise on Balance Ability and Kinesthesia of the Lower Limb Joints in Children Aged 5–6 Years	6
Optimality, Stability, and Agility of Human Movement: New Optimality Criterion and Trade-Offs	6
Rating of Perceived Exertion in the First Repetition is Related to the Total Repetitions Performed in Elastic Bands Training	5
Differences in Lower-Extremity Joint Coordination During Two Landing Phases of a Drop Jump Task	4
Proprioceptive Acuity Assessment in Multiple Directions Across Multiple Joints in the Upper Limb	4
Decay of Short-Term Motor Memory Regarding Force Reproduction	4
Effect of Object Texture and Weight on Ipsilateral Corticospinal Influences During Bimanual Holding in Humans	4
The Effects of Various Cognitive Tasks Including Working Memory, Visuospatial, and Executive Function on Postural Control in Patients With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury	4
Distraction From Smartphones Changed Pedestrians’ Walking Behaviors in Open Areas	4
High-Intensity Forward-Backward Plyometrics After the Warm-Up Entail Better Sprint and Change-of-Direction Performance Than Low-Intensity Side-to-Side Plyometrics	4
Judokas Exhibit Short Response Latency Even to Non-Judo-Specific External Perturbation: Insights Into the Involuntary Postural Control Ability in Humans	4
Identifying Referent Control Variables Underlying Goal-Directed Arm Movements	4

Quantifying Human Gait Symmetry During Blindfolded Treadmill Walking	4
Reliability and Sensitivity of Reaction Time Measurements During Quasi-Realistic Soccer Situations	4
The Effect of an Overhead External Load Lifting and Lowering on Dynamic Postural Control in Subgroups of Low Back Pain	4
Understanding the Interaction of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Visual Feedback During an Ankle Movement Task	4
Correlations of Postural Stability to Proprioception, Tactile Sensation, and Strength Among People With Chronic Ankle Instability	3
Short- and Long-Term Changes in Balance After Active Video Game Training in Children With and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial	3
Response Time Modulates the Relationship Between Implicit Learning and Motor Ability in Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Study	3
Effectiveness of a Cognitive-Motor Training Program in Reducing Attentional Cost During Walking in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis	3
A Hurdle-Based Learning Design Effect on Locomotion Pattern and Hurdle Clearance Kinematic Reorganization	3
Dual-Task Interference Slows Down Proprioception	3
The Imitation Game in Children With Tourette Syndrome: A Lack of Impulse Control to Mirror Environmental Stimuli	3
Cross-Disciplinary Communication and Evolving Language: A Comment on Latash	3
Age-Related Changes in Plantar Sensation and Ankle Proprioception in Adolescents to Older Adults	3
An Ecological-Dynamical Perspective on Latash’s Misnomers in Motor Control	3
Intramuscle Synergies: Their Place in the Neural Control Hierarchy	3
Patterns of Movement Performance and Consistency From Childhood to Old Age	3
Assessing Postural Control From Birth to Adulthood Among Individuals Born Preterm: A Systematic Review	3
Event-Related Potentials Analysis of the Effects of Discontinuous Short-Term Fine Motor Imagery on Motor Execution	3
Attentional Focus Strategies Can Improve Performance of Postural Control in Runners	2
Implications of Optimal Feedback Control Theory for Sport Coaching and Motor Learning: A Systematic Review	2
Heating the Skin Over the Knee Improves Kinesthesia During Knee Extension	2
The Nature of Finger Enslaving: New Results and Their Implications	2
Reaching Movements With Limb-Based Visual Feedback	2
Acute Effect of Brace Use on Upper-Extremity Functionality in Adolescent Individuals With Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Cross-Sectional Study	2
Optimization Reduces Knee-Joint Forces During Walking and Squatting: Validating the Inverse Dynamics Approach for Full Body Movements on Instrumented Knee Prostheses	2
Dissociating the Influence of Perceptual Biases and Contextual Artifacts Within Target Configurations During the Planning and Control of Visually Guided Action	2
Consistent Individual Tendencies in Motor Speed–Accuracy Trade-Off	2
Adaptive Regulation in a Stable Performance Environment: Trial-To-Trial Consistency in Cue Sports Performance	2
Effects of Static Hamstring Stretching on Maximal Sprint Speed and Relationship With Nordic Hamstring Strength	2
How Common Is the Exponential Decay Pattern of Motor Skill Acquisition? A Brief Investigation	2
Table Tennis, as a Method of Sensorimotor Training, Induces Haptic and Motor Gains in Children With a Probable Developmental Coordination Disorder	2
Vision Is Not Required to Elicit Balance Improvements From Beam Walking Practice	2
Dominant and Nondominant Leg Kinematics During Kicking in Young Soccer Players: A Cross-Sectional Study	1
Effect of Vertical Jump and Sprint Training on Power and Speed Performance Transfer	1
Balance and Cognition in Male Collegiate Lacrosse Players	1
Stimulus–Response Compatibility During Fighting Task Simulation: Influences of the Opponent’s Spatial Codes on the Accuracy and Response Time	1
Effects of Mental Fatigue on Strength Endurance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	1
Postural Control and Adaptation Strategy of Young Adults on Unstable Surface	1
Current Movement Follows Previous Nontarget Movement With Somatosensory Stimulation	1
Balance Recovery Strategy in Children With and Without Hearing or Visual Impairments	1
Target Constraints Influence Locomotion Pattern to the First Hurdle	1
The Influence of a Warm-Up on Vigilance in University Students	1
Balance Control in Individuals With Visual Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	1
Kinematic and Electromyography Responses to Increasing Proprioception Demand and a Lack of Visual Feedback in Healthy, Middle-Aged Women Tested on an Unstable Platform	1
Altered Trunk Position Sense and Its Relationship With Spinal Posture and Spinal Mobility in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease	1
Inverse Saxophone—A Device to Study the Role of Individual Finger Perturbations on Grasp Stability	1
The Amount and Pattern of Reciprocal Compensations Predict Performance Stability in a Visually Guided Finger Force Production Task	1
Recognizing Context, Embracing Jargon, and Learning From Linguists: A Commentary on “Useful and Useless Misnomers in Motor Control”	1
Introduction to the Special Z-Issue in Honor of the 90th Birthday of Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky	1
Unprompted Alteration of Freely Chosen Movement Rate During Stereotyped Rhythmic Movement: Examples and Review	1

Cognitive-Motor Interference and Cortical Activation While Walking in Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis	1
Acute and Acclimated Effects of Wearing Compression Garments on Balance Control in Community-Dwelling Older Adults	1
Memory-Guided Reaching: Is It Effortful?	1
Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities Rely on Somatosensory Information Rather Than Visual Information to Catch a Ball	1
Prefrontal Cortex Brain Activation During Texting and Walking: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Feasibility Study	1
The Dawn of the Study of Motor Timing: Wilhelm Camerer (1866) and Karl von Vierordt (1868) on the Time Course of Voluntary Movements	1
Entropy as a Window Into Behavioral Phase Transitions: Unveiling Contextual Dynamics in Affordance-Based Reaching	1
Increased Ability to Perceive Relevant Sensory Information Minimizes Low Back Exposures in Lifting	1
Strategies for Controlling a Whole-Body Task With Uncertain Initial Conditions: Application to the Upstart on Bars	1
Toward an Operational Dynamical Model of Lateral Manual Interception Behavior	1
Uncontrolled Manifold Analysis of the Effects of Different Fatigue Locations on Kinematic Coordination During a Repetitive Upper-Limb Task	1
Effects of Warm-Up Training on Psychomotor Vigilance and Repeated-Sprint Ability of Professional Soccer Referees: A Pilot Study	1
Exactness as the Universal Currency of Research in Natural Science	1
Response of Knee Joint Biomechanics to Landing Under Internal and External Focus of Attention in Female Volleyball Players	1
Influence of Pedal Interface During Pedaling With the Upper Versus Lower Limbs: A Pilot Analysis of Torque Performance and Muscle Synergies	1
Exploring Sex Differences and Force Level Effects on Grip Force Perception in Healthy Adults	1
Between a Walk and a Hard Place: How Stepping Patterns Change While Navigating Environmental Obstacles	1
Effect of Long-Term Classical Ballet Dance Training on Postactivation Depression of the Soleus Hoffmann-Reflex	1
Effect of Exercise Intensity on Psychomotor Vigilance During an Incremental Endurance Exercise in Under-19 Soccer Players	1
Addition of a Cognitive Task During Walking Alters Lower Body Muscle Activity	1
Range of Motion Remains Constant as Movement Rate Decreases During a Repetitive High-Speed Knee Flexion–Extension Task	1