Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Papers
(The H4-Index of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 26. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self67
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?52
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors50
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws47
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study45
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress44
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 training44
January 2023 Editorial42
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?41
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers41
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)39
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial36
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance36
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study34
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint32
How high-performance practitioners think and intervene to change technique32
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)30
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study29
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches29
(Re)conceptualizing cohesion: A theoretical realignment and roadmap for future research29
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions28
The Avengers in action: A gamified-based intermittent teaching unit in the Physical Education setting to promote physical activity and its psychological mediators in secondary education students28
Daily measures of sport enjoyment, social interaction, and attendance among female adolescent handball players27
More active, more nature-connected? The carry-over effect of physical activity in pro-environmental behavior27
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on emotional memory formation in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: Encoding vs consolidation26
Do researchers have a shared cognition on team cognition in sports?26
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