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 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
The (virtual) teaching of physical education in times of pandemic	24
Effect of a hybrid teaching games for understanding/sport education unit on elementary students’ self-determined motivation in physical education	24
The effect of the Sport Education Model on basic needs, intrinsic motivation and prosocial attitudes: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis	20
Examining mental health literacy, help-seeking behaviours, distress, and wellbeing in UK coaches	19
Challenges faced by preservice and novice teachers in implementing student-centred models: A systematic review	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
Barriers and facilitators to inclusion in integrated physical education: Adapted physical educators’ perspectives	14
‘Health First’ and curriculum reform in China: The experiences of physical education teachers in one city	14
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
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
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
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
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

Primary field experiences: Critical for primary generalist physical education teachers?	10
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
Development of the Pre-service Physical Education Teachers' Teacher Identity Scale	9
A one-year follow-up of basic psychological need satisfactions in physical education and associated in-class and total physical activity	9
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
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
“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
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