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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study71
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps67
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self64
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress53
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?53
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 training41
January 2023 Editorial36
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team36
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)35
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)35
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial31
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions31
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint30
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?29
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study29
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers29
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws29
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance29
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study28
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial28
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches28
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach28
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection28
Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr27
The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors27
Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality26
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study26
Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation26
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis26
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