OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Assessing the relationship between pre- and post-game interpersonal emotions in women’s soccer teams	39
Influence of pre-induced mental fatigue on tactical behaviour and performance among young elite football players	38
The mediating role of self-esteem in the association between physical fitness and risk of depression in adolescents: DADOS Study	26
“If I talk about it, I'm weak, and I'm supposed to be strong”: experiences of body-related shame in women athletes	26
Career trajectories of junior athletes in Latin America and the Caribbean and their relationship with mental health	25
The future-oriented hopes and goals of adolescent student-athletes in Finnish sport high schools	23
Early specialisation among Swedish aesthetic performers: exploring motivation and perceptions of parental influence	21
Men’s goal-oriented motives, physical activity experiences and body-related perceptions: a latent profile analysis	20
Multisensory integration in anticipation: moderating effects of time and task constraints	20
Physical activity intention-behavior gap during the COVID-19 pandemic: the moderating role of motivation and health-belief	16
Effects of past and current motor experiences as soccer players in decision-making of amateur soccer referees	16
The relationship among perceived parental psychological control, socially prescribed perfectionism, fear of failure, and performance of adolescent athletes	15
Adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress among Chinese college students: the moderating effects of physical activity and sleep duration	14
Effects of coach encouragement on psychophysiological responses and technical actions in different small-sided soccer games	13
What constitutes editorial virtuous leadership	13
The relationship between attitudes and behavioural intentions related to doping: the role of attitude certainty	13
How small differences grow over time – the snowball effect of grit on practice in sport	13
Cognitive reappraisal mitigates affective valence declines during exercise at the ventilatory threshold	12
Understanding the intention-to-behaviour relationship for adolescents: an application of the multi-process action control model	12
The impact of intra-team communication and support relationships on team identification and collective efficacy in elite team sport: a social network analysis	12
Coaches’ pointing gestures as means to convey tactical information in basketball: an eye-tracking study	11
International Society of Sport Psychology position stand: scientist practitioners	11
Students’ efficacy profiles and outcomes of perceived relation-inferred self-efficacy support in physical education	11
A mixed-methods examination of a mental health awareness program in elite ice hockey	11
Migration and meaning: an exploration of elite refugee athletes’ transitions into the Canadian sports system	10

Home advantage in soccer after the break due to COVID-19 pandemic: does crowd support matter?	10
Mental toughness in sport: testing the goal-expectancy-self-control (GES) model among runners and cyclists using cross-sectional and experimental designs	10
Transgender inclusion in competitive sport: athletes’ attitudes toward transgender athlete participation in intercollegiate sport	10
A wolf in (black) sheep’s clothing? Subjective group dynamics in sports fans	10
Investigating the relationships among athlete leadership behaviours, perceptions of athlete leader fairness, and cohesion	9
Testing fear of COVID-19, difficulties in emotion regulation, state anxiety as predictors of withdrawal effects in individuals with problematic exercise behaviour: a serial mediation model	9
The effect of instructional and motivational self-talk on accuracy and electromyography of active and passive muscles in elbow joint position sense test	9
Excellence and expert performance in sports: what do we know and where are we going?	9
Examining the psychological characteristics of developing excellence profiles of male English youth soccer players: differences across ages and performance levels	9
The dual pandemic: COVID-19, systemic racism, and college student-athletic mental health	8
Development and validation of the Sports Grit Scale	8
Sport psychology consultants’ views on mental training with elite Deaf sport athletes	8
Development and preliminary validation of the RESilience qualities In SporT (RESIST) scale	8
Integration of sport and education in China: a case study of a dual career development environment of a Shanghai junior men’s basketball team	8
Caring coaching climates emerge as key factor in promoting high school athletes’ well-being and motivation, complimented by a task-involving climate	8
Effects of free dance on the mood state, aging perspective and optimism of women undergoing breast cancer surgery: a randomised clinical trial	8
Towards an explanatory model of the enjoyment of physical activity based on physical self-concept	8
Correction	8
Effects of acute aerobic exercise with self-selected music on working memory and alpha oscillation	7
How COVID-19 lockdown affected physical activity levels and wellbeing: an Italian Survey	7
The role of moral identity and regret on cheating in sport	7
Applied imagery for motivation: a person-centred model	7
Can the Dunning-Kruger effect occur in the motor performance domain?	7
The effects of acute yoga practice on heart rate and heart rate variability responses to mental stress	7
Technical fouls as a trigger of momentum change: analysis of two decades of NBA data	7
The effects of social identity and social identity content on cohesion, efficacy, and performance across a competitive rugby league season	7
“There’s no good, it’s just satisfactory”: perfectionism, performance, and perfectionistic reactivity in NCAA student-athletes	7
The impact of action observation on the intention for action engagement	7
Emotion regulation among competitive youth athletes: exploring the independent and interactive effects of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression	7
Impact of open and closed-skill sports on inhibitory control: evidence from event related potentials	6
The impact of Chinese calligraphy practice on athletes’ self-control	6
Comparative acute effects of aerobic versus resistance exercise on ameliorating cravings and associated emotional and cognitive factors in individuals with methamphetamine use disorders	6
A symptom network analysis of exercise addiction and personality on ultra-marathon runners with serious complications	6
Exploring perceptions of depression: a performer perspective	6
The effect of structured brain gym and brisk walking training on the executive functions of university students: a single-blinded randomised controlled trial	6
Are college perfectionists more likely to be addicted to exercise? The promotion effect of psychological needs and motivation	6
Antecedents and mediators of the association between adolescents’ intention and physical activity: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries	6
Sport participants’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of nostalgia, resilience, and curiosity	6
Effect of a home-based exercise programme on mental health and well-being in children during COVID-19 pandemic	6
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Singapore national youth athletes’ mental health and potential protective factors	5
Psychology of physical activity: a 30-year reflection on correlates, barriers, and theory	5
Social norms and emotion regulation among youth athletes	5
Dynamic visual support is superior to its static counterpart in learning a series of Judo refereeing gestures	5
The effect of expertise upon perceived reach- and grasp-ability in rock climbers	5
Maintained cognitive gains after 10 weeks of cognitively engaging exercise via reducing body fat in overweight children	5
Examining the effectiveness of focus of attention instructions on the learning of a badminton long serve in novice students: movement automaticity hypothesis	5
In pursuit of dual career excellence: factors associated to satisfaction of Swedish University student-athletes	5
Online exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic and factors promoting or hindering participation in adults: a scoping review	5
Coping with intensive training demands: a longitudinal investigation of the relationships between appraisal, emotion, coping effectiveness and engagement among elite fencers	5
Influence of an audience on conscious motor processing and performance during a go-only and stop-signal soccer penalty shooting task	5

Promote “ we ” to inspire me: examining the roles of group identification and trust in the association between identity leadership and follower inspiration	5
Problematic mobile phone use among youth athletes: a topic modelling approach	5
Context matters: an examination of game management in refereeing	5
Trends of physical activity and sedentary behaviours among secondary school students in Singapore: what has changed in 15 years?	5
A qualitative examination of parental mental health and well-being in youth sport	5
Acute moderate-intensity aerobic exercise facilitates processing speed involving inhibitory control but not neuroelectric index of control process and cognitive integration	5
An autoethnographic account and interpretation of sport related life skills and personal development	5
Temporal dynamics of the quality of the coach-athlete relationship over one season among adolescent handball players: a latent class analysis approach	5
High income but high stress: cross over effects of work and family role conflict in professional athletes and their partners	5
Semantic and affective processing of implicit associations are related to the regularity of running behaviour in young women: an ERP study	5
Parent–child co-participation in sport and physical activity: a scoping review	5
Mental health risk and protective factors in Australian cricket	5
The affect-intensity relationship in aerobic exercise: an analysis based on a systematic review	5
The effects of self-control on bullying behaviour among martial arts practicing adolescents: based on the analyses of multiple mediation effects	4
Transcranial direct current stimulation over prefrontal cortex did not improve the decision-making skill of athletes exposed to prolonged social media use: a crossover and randomised investigation	4
A weight-inclusive approach to applied sport psychology	4
Alignment of qualitative and quantitative focus of attention assessment of stone delivery among high-level Canadian curlers	4
The effects of prosocial video games on empathy and prosocial behavior in athletes: evidence from cross-sectional survey and experimental studies	4
Are aging stereotypes in the physical domain associated with physical capacities in older adults?	4
The influence of spectators on home advantage and referee bias in national teams matches: insights from UEFA Nations League	4
Effectiveness of interventions based on health action process approach in promoting physical activity among rehabilitation patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Relationships of automatic associations, affect, and outcome expectations with adolescents’ impulsive decision to opt into physical activity	4
Investigating the impact of coach behaviours and coach-athlete relationships on psychological safety	4
Does executive functions’ performance at rest predict executive function performance during acute physical exercise?	4
Development and preliminary validation of the sport injury-related growth inventory	4
Acute exercise on complex motor memory retention: the role of task cognitive demands	4
Relationship between athlete stress and burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Predicting students’ basic psychological needs, motivation, and well-being in online physical education: a semester-term longitudinal study	4
Good performance-high attractiveness effect: an empirical study on the association between athletes’ rankings and their facial attractiveness	4
Discussing safe sport in the digital space: the #gymnastalliance movement	4
The Team Denmark applied model of athlete mental health	4
Are core executive functions predictive of decision-making in sport? A scoping review	4
Emotional intelligence and drawing inferences from nonverbal cues in sports	4
A systematic review of quantitative studies concerning psychological aspects of early specialisation	4
Strategic decision-making in Olympic bouldering: the role of climbing movement repertoire examined	4