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Papers

(The median citation count of European Physical Education Review is 3. 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 scoping review critically examining research connecting social and emotional learning with three model-based practices in physical education: Have we been doing this all along?	39
Physical literacy in children and adolescents: Definitions, assessments, and interventions	38
Continuing professional development for physical education teachers in Europe	26
Effect of a hybrid teaching games for understanding/sport education unit on elementary students’ self-determined motivation in physical education	24
The (virtual) teaching of physical education in times of pandemic	24
The effect of the Sport Education Model on basic needs, intrinsic motivation and prosocial attitudes: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis	20
Challenges faced by preservice and novice teachers in implementing student-centred models: A systematic review	19
Examining mental health literacy, help-seeking behaviours, distress, and wellbeing in UK coaches	19
Informal sport and curriculum futures: An investigation of the knowledge, skills and understandings for participation and the possibilities for physical education	18
Including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities in mainstream secondary physical education: A revisit study	17
The efficacy of using mobile applications in changing adolescent girls’ physical activity behaviour during weekends	16
Physical education in a post-COVID world: A blended-gamified approach	15
‘Health First’ and curriculum reform in China: The experiences of physical education teachers in one city	14
Barriers and facilitators to inclusion in integrated physical education: Adapted physical educators’ perspectives	14
Between ideal teaching and ‘what works’: The transmission and transformation of a content area from university to school placements within physical education teacher education	13
Students’ attitudes towards and experiences of the Youth-fit health-related fitness test battery	13
Spanish physical education teachers’ perceptions of talent development	13
Effects of the Sport Education model on adolescents’ motivational, emotional, and well-being dimensions during a school year	13
Messy methods: Making sense of participatory research with young people in PE and sport	12
‘Even if you don’t care…you do care after all’: ‘Othering’ and physical education in Norway	12
The effects of service-learning on physical education teacher education: A case study on the border between Africa and Europe	12
Effect of a six-week dance-based physical education intervention on primary school children’s creativity: A pilot study	12
Learning communities and physical education professional development: A scoping review	12
A comparative analysis of discourses shaping physical education provision within and across the UK	11
See the forest by looking at the trees: Physical education teachers’ interpersonal style profiles and students’ engagement	11

Trans-Contextual Model Predicting Change in Out-of-School Physical Activity: A One-Year Longitudinal Study	10
Exploring social justice pedagogies in health and physical education through Critical Incident Technique methodology	10
Principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programmes: A social-ecological perspective	10
Primary field experiences: Critical for primary generalist physical education teachers?	10
A one-year follow-up of basic psychological need satisfactions in physical education and associated in-class and total physical activity	9
Development of the Pre-service Physical Education Teachers' Teacher Identity Scale	9
Physical literacy and policy alignment in sport and education in Australia	8
Undergraduate students’ experiences with educational podcasts to learn about inclusive and integrated physical education	8
Developing young people’s mental health awareness through education and sport: Insights from the Tackling the Blues programme	8
Moving from physical literacy to co-existing physical literacies: What is the problem?	8
Enacting assessment for learning in the induction phase of physical education teaching	8
Examination of elementary students’ emotions and personal and social responsibility in physical education	8
The tennis common content knowledge measure validation	8
Factors influencing the culture of special school physical education: A Gramscian critique	8
Simplistic policy, skewed consequences: Taking stock of English physical education, school sport and physical activity policy since 2013	8
The (im)possibilities of praxis in online health and physical education teacher education	8
A sport-specific optimization approach to mental wellness for youth in low-income neighborhoods	8
Flipped learning in physical education: A scoping review	7
Adoption and fidelity of Sport Education in Spanish schools	7
Artefacts and influence in curriculum policy enactment: Processes, products and policy work in curriculum reform	7
‘Same, same, but different?!’ Investigating diversity issues in the current Austrian National Curriculum for Physical Education	7
“You’re sitting on a hot soccer field drinking Gatorade…I’m sitting in a yacht club just enjoying the view, enjoying the drinks”: Parental reproduction of social class through school sport sailing	7
Relationships between students’ individual interest, achievement goals, perceived competence and situational interest: A cluster analysis in swimming	7
Antecedents of primary school teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles in physical education	7
Understanding students’ novelty satisfaction in physical education: Associations with need-supportive teaching style and physical activity intention	7
The relationships among motivational climate, perceived competence, physical performance, and affects during physical education fitness testing lessons	7
‘It’s how PE should be!’: Classroom teachers’ experiences of implementing Meaningful Physical Education	7
Teaching physical education in ‘paradise’: Activity levels, lesson context and barriers to quality implementation	7
Teachers’ perceptions of a lesson study intervention as professional development in physical education	6
Motivation, basic psychological needs and intention to be physically active after a gamified intervention programme	6
Students’ perceptions of visibility in physical education	6
A contingency perspective on learning and instruction in physical education	6
The potential of Lesson Study in primary physical education: Messages from a longitudinal study in Japan	6
Introduction to Special Issue on Mental Health and Mental Illness in Physical Education and Youth Sport	6
Motivating students for physical activity: What can we learn from student perspectives?	6
Teachers’ and students’ perceptions of factors influencing the adoption of information and communications technology in physical education in Singapore schools	6
Understanding disruptive situations in physical education: Teaching style and didactic implications	6
Connections among physical activity, motivation, and depressive symptoms in adolescent girls	5
‘I always live in a quebrada [favela] and today I am here. So, you can be also here one day’: Exploring pre-service teachers’ perceptions of love for youth from socially vulnerable backgrounds	5
The effects of a tactical games model unit on students’ volleyball performances in elementary school	5
Developing the practice of pre-service physical education teachers through a dyad model of lesson study	5
Physical activity levels during a Sport Education season of games from around the world	5
“It's more about building trust”: Physical education teachers’ experiences with trauma-informed practices	5
Promotion of physical activity-related health competence in physical education: A person-oriented approach for evaluating the GEKOS intervention within a cluster randomized controlled trial	5
Video modeling examples are effective tools for self-regulated learning in physical education: Students learn through repeated viewing, self-talk, and mental rehearsal	5
The curriculum took a back seat to huff and puff: Teaching high school health and physical education during Covid-19	5
Recruitment of undergraduate students in kinesiology: Implications for physical education	5
Physical education student teachers’ wellbeing during Covid-19: Resilience resources and challenges from school placement	5
‘Why don't you really learn anything in PEH?’ – Students’ experiences of valid knowledge and the basis for assessment in physical education and health (PEH)	5
‘Let them do PE!’ The ‘becoming’ of Swedish physical education in the age of COVID-19	5

The influence of a teacher-designed and -implemented disability awareness programme on the attitudes of students toward inclusion	5
‘Involve me, and I learn’: Effects of social status on students’ physical activity, skill, and knowledge during group work	5
Perceived teachers’ autonomy support, positive behaviour, and misbehaviour in physical education: The roles of advantageous comparison and non-responsibility	5
Developmental sequences for observing and assessing forceful kicking	4
Effects of a two-stage physical education teacher education programme on preservice teachers’ specialised content knowledge and students’ game-play in a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game appro	4
The dynamics of external provision in physical education	4
Social inclusion in multi-ethnic physical education classes: Contextualized understandings of how social relations influence female students’ experiences of inclusion and exclusion	4
Ecological correlates of Spanish preschoolers’ physical activity and sedentary behaviours during structured movement sessions	4
A relational perspective on students' experiences of participation in an ‘Interest-based physical education’ programme	4
Cross-cultural comparison of fundamental movement skills in 9- to 10-year-old children from England and China	4
A systematic review exploring body image programmes and interventions in physical education	4
Acute enhancement of executive functions through cognitively challenging physical activity games in elementary physical education	4
Exploring the impact of a student-centred survival swimming programme for primary school students in Australia: the perceptions of parents, children and teachers	4
Physical literacy in children: Exploring the construct validity of a multidimensional physical literacy construct	4
“I hate that education is a business”: Influence of occupational socialization on sport pedagogy doctoral students’ intended PETE programs	4
The relationship of family characteristics, parental beliefs and parenting behaviours with the fundamental movement proficiency of primary school children in South East Wales	4
Enacting a new curriculum models-based framework supported by digital technology within a learning community	4
Relationships between university instructors’ and preservice teachers’ content knowledge	3
The relationships between the 3 × 2 achievement goal model and test anxiety in Physical Education	3
The relationships among personal accomplishment, resilience and teachers’ experience of teaching multiple school subjects role conflict	3
Students’ experiences and learning of social inclusion in team activities in physical education	3
‘I am finding my path’: A case study of Swedish novice physical education teachers’ experiences when managing the realities and challenges of their first years in the profession	3
Middle school students’ attitudes toward physical activity and physical education, intentions, and physical activity behavior	3
Dodgeball: Inadvertently teaching oppression in physical and health education	3
Under a growth-centered accountability system: A job demand and resource perspective for physical educators	3
Bildung: A German student-centered approach to health and physical education	3
High- versus low-structured cooperative learning in secondary physical education: Impact on prosocial behaviours at different ages	3
Examining high school student perceptions of physical education	3
An analysis of content development in physical education: Preschool teachers’ selection of instructional tasks	3
Professional networks, collegial support, and school leaders: How physical education teachers manage reality shock, marginalization, and isolation in a decentralized school system	3
Anti-fat bias in secondary school teachers: Are physical education teachers more biased than mathematics teachers?	3
Does Sport Education promote equitable game-play participation? Effects of learning context and students’ sex and skill-level	3