OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Physical Education Review 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Physical education student teachers’ wellbeing during Covid-19: Resilience resources and challenges from school placement	33
Capturing the multidimensionality of motivation in physical education: A self-organizing maps approach to profiling students	31
Why modify? Visually impaired students’ views on activity modifications in physical education	27
‘Same, same, but different?!’ Investigating diversity issues in the current Austrian National Curriculum for Physical Education	26
The purpose of primary physical education: The views of teacher educators	21
Physical education students’ usage and perceptions of a supplemental online health-related fitness knowledge curriculum (iPE)	21
Adaptation and testing of the factorial structure of the Achievement Emotional Questionnaire-Short to the Spanish context of physical education classes	20
The structural and convergent validity of the FMS² assessment tool among 8- to 12-year-old children	18
Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go!	17
The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport	16
“It's more about building trust”: Physical education teachers’ experiences with trauma-informed practices	15
Physical literacy in children: Exploring the construct validity of a multidimensional physical literacy construct	14
“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers	14
Design of a new movement competence assessment for children aged 8–12: A Delphi poll study	14
Information and communication technologies in physical education: Exploring the association between role modeling and digital literacy	13
Using discussion to inform action: Formative research on nature-based physical activity as a means of fostering relatedness for girls in physical and health education	13
Understandings and enactments of social justice pedagogies in Swedish physical education and health practice	13
Students from refugee backgrounds in physical education: A survey of teachers’ perceptions	13
Preservice physical education teachers’ perceptions of initial teacher education	13
Beginning, rise, fall, and comeback: Exploring the journey of a physical education teacher community in South Korea	13
“I hate that education is a business”: Influence of occupational socialization on sport pedagogy doctoral students’ intended PETE programs	12
Teaching physical education in ‘paradise’: Activity levels, lesson context and barriers to quality implementation	12
High- versus low-structured cooperative learning in secondary physical education: Impact on prosocial behaviours at different ages	12
Including students with physical disabilities in physical education in Singapore: Perspectives of peers without disabilities	11
“We have limited time, so it's a zero-sum game”: Influence of secondary organizational socialization on the forms of physical education teacher education provided by European, Asian, and North America	11

The acute effect of heart rate monitor projection on exercise effort in school students	11
Antecedents of primary school teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles in physical education	11
Beginning teachers’ descriptions of ball games as pedagogic practice in Swedish physical education	11
Formative assessment in physical education: teachers’ experiences when designing and implementing formative assessment activities	10
Cross-cultural comparison of fundamental movement skills in 9- to 10-year-old children from England and China	10
One-year stability of physical education-centered physical literacy indicators on objectively measured physical activity	10
Universal design for learning in physical education: Overview and critical reflection	10
Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts	10
Enhancing sport education experiences through service-learning	10
Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling: A Deleuzian perspective	10
Binary and non-binary trans students’ experiences in physical education: A systematic review	10
The dynamics of external provision in physical education	9
‘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	9
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education	9
The if, why and how of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom	9
Meritocracy and material consequences at the intersection of race, class, and disability for pre-service PE teachers	8
A relational perspective on students' experiences of participation in an ‘Interest-based physical education’ programme	8
See the forest by looking at the trees: Physical education teachers’ interpersonal style profiles and students’ engagement	8
Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature	8
Exploring the impact of a student-centred survival swimming programme for primary school students in Australia: the perceptions of parents, children and teachers	8
Swimming competence of 9–10-year-old Norwegian primary school children: A cross-sectional study of physical education	8
Investigating preservice classroom teachers’ practices and views about teaching physical education lessons: An exploratory case study	8
Does Sport Education promote equitable game-play participation? Effects of learning context and students’ sex and skill-level	7
‘Involve me, and I learn’: Effects of social status on students’ physical activity, skill, and knowledge during group work	7
Learning to facilitate student voice in primary physical education	7
Perceived organizational support, marginalization, isolation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction of PETE faculty members	7
Understanding US PETE Faculty Stress in the Sociopolitical Environment of Higher Education	7
The (im)possibilities of praxis in online health and physical education teacher education	7
Self-made material in physical education: Teacher perceptions of the use of an emerging pedagogical model before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Examination of associations across transformational teacher leadership, motivational orientation, enjoyment, and boredom in physical education students	7