OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Constructing the ‘healthy’ student: a narrative review of the re-legitimisation of the biomedical discourse in physical education	31
‘The elephants in the room’: the multiple challenges that limit the impact of school-based professional learning for physical education teachers	25
Replay the game and teach for understanding: exploring the use of video tagging in an invasion games unit	22
Enriching organisational design for games: the case of badminton in physical education	21
The influence of physical education on the use of healthy lifestyle technologies: insights from young adults’ digital PE experiences and future recommendations	19
Reimagining school-university partnerships in physical education: a collaborative design to approach democratic professionalism	18
Producing the well and skilled body: a critical discourse analysis of health and physical education curriculum policy in Aotearoa New Zealand	17
Educating in spaces of refuge: pedagogical transformation through Situated Olympism	17
A longitudinal investigation of the reciprocal associations between motivational climate and need satisfaction in Finnish high school students	16
Exploring practitioner inquiry among health and physical education teachers: insights from teachers’ perspectives	16
Student choice and barriers to physical activity in Latino boys in the REACH after-school program	16
The lived experience of sport education: a web of interconnected experiences	16
Facilitating loose parts play with elementary school staff: professional development and implementation from the perspective of the facilitator	16
Sowing sport integrity: co-creation of an educational module for fraud prevention in elite sport schools	16
A hope and a prayer: first-year experiences of a Black male physical educator	14
Positive youth development through sport and physical education: a systematic review of empirical research conducted with grade 5 to 12 children and youth	13
Coach as youth development specialist: developing a TPSR-based coach training program and examining participants’ experiences	13
Associations between students’ perceptions of teachers’ transformational leadership, enjoyment and boredom in physical education: the mediating role of prosocial climate and motor self-efficacy	13
Exploring teachers’ experiences of secondary school physical education in England	13
Curricular intervention in physical education to prevent bullying: A-Judo programme	13
Urban–rural differences in TGfU-based physical education at Taiwanese primary schools from the perspective of cultural capital	12
Intervention fidelity: multiple strategies to design, implement, and assess mastery motivational climate behavioral interventions	12
The paradox of experience: generational analysis of AI integration in physical education using the iTPACK framework	11
Gender preference of conceptions toward caloric-balanced living	11
Effects of a unit of circus activities through a hybridization of cooperative learning and self-made material: a students, teachers and parents combined perspective	11

Walk the walk or talk the talk: elite coaches espoused thoughts and actions	11
Developing social and school facilitators for a positive school transition through a Sport Education and Service-Learning programme	11
A qualitative examination on the preparation of preservice physical education teachers for assessment in secondary teaching methods courses in the US	10
National curriculum guidelines of Brazil (2018) and Uruguay (2022): a comparative view from the perspective of physical education	10
deportigualízate: enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE	10
Two teachers’ positioning toward Meaningful PE: agency, sensemaking, and ownership	10
A pre-longitudinal screen of performance in an integrated assessment of throwing and catching competence	10
Physical Education teachers’ assessment of student performance in invasion games in Victorian secondary schools: a mixed methods study	10
Health-based physical education in an elementary school: effects on physical self-concept, motivation, fitness and physical activity	10
Exploring students experiences of secondary school Physical Education in England	9
Teachers’ perceptions of implementing sport education in Saudi middle schools	9
Developing a love for playing games: a clarification of why Digital Video Games Approach is not Gamification	9
Teachers’ experiences of enacting pedagogical models and models-based practice: a systematic mixed study review	9
An uphill struggle: an exploration of parents’, carers’, and support workers’ impressions of inclusivity for pupils with learning disabilities in Physical Education	9
Sport pedagogy and feminism: what is known and what is missing? Findings from a scoping review	8
Everyone is welcome under the big top: a multiple case study on circus arts instruction in physical education	8
All physical and no education? – Gender, sexuality and the ‘affective atmosphere’ in physical education	8
Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women	8
Generalization and maintenance of skill trials from physical education to recess in elementary school	8
Educational gymnastics as objectual practice: reflections on content knowledge	7
Physical education to transgress: exploring an activist approach in a primary school setting	7
Governing school physical education through discursive technologies: a Foucauldian archaeology of policy in South Korea	7
Environmental constraints: a comparative analysis of children’s swimming competence in different aquatic environments	7
Students’ perception of dominant objectives in Physical Education: the Purpose of Physical Education Scale	7
From immediate recognition to judgement stability: assessing declarative tactical learning in youth football	7
Critical application of TGfU in sports coaching	7
Addressing contemporary concerns in models-based practice: insights from Ireland’s national physical education curriculum	7
Reflection and reflective practice in high-performance sport coaching: a heuristic device	7
Developing embodied competence while becoming a PE teacher: PETE students’ embodied experiences and reflections after micro-teaching	7
Game is the teacher? Understandings and misunderstandings of games-based approaches	6
How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education	6
Learning sport: a site-ontological practice theory perspective	6
Does perceived physical literacy relate to academic achievement in Chinese university students? Insights from a cross-sectional study	6
The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions	6
Early childhood physical activity parenting and sport club participation as predictors of perceived motor competence – a three-year longitudinal study	6
Exploring pedagogies of embodiment in physical education teacher education	6
Collaborative inquiry for change: enacting social justice in health and physical education	6