OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 27. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self	72
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)	55
January 2023 Editorial	46
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)	42
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial	42
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint	40
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study	38
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors	38
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress	37
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance	35
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers	35
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws	34
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps	33
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team	33
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions	33
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study	32
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?	32
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – An investigation of the relationship with soccer-specific performance and the effects of systematic training	32
How high-performance practitioners think and intervene to change technique	31
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection	30
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study	30
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches	29
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?	29
FEPSAC Newsletter	28
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality	28

The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors	28
25 years of relationship research in sport: The quality of the coach-athlete relationship as defined by Closeness, Commitment, Complementarity and Co-orientation (3+1Cs Model)	27
Change in the social context of physical activity across adolescence and its association with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity	27
Do not drop your gloves: “Winning” a fight in the National Hockey League does not improve chances to win the game	27
Athletic identity, values and self-regulatory efficacy governing hypercompetitive attitudes	27
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context	27