International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of the video assistant referee on the Chinese Super League37
Australian female athlete perceptions of the challenges associated with training and competing when menstrual symptoms are present32
Are relative age and biological ages associated with coaches’ evaluations of match performance in male academy soccer players?29
Towards a contemporary player learning in development framework for sports practitioners24
What male coaches want to know about the menstrual cycle in women’s team sports: Performance, health, and communication23
In-game behaviour analysis of football players using machine learning techniques based on player statistics22
The impact of humanistic coach training on youth athletes’ development through sport19
Training monitoring methods used in the field by coaches and practitioners: A systematic review16
Contemporary practices of strength and conditioning coaches in professional cricket16
The effect of the Video Assistant Referee on referee’s decisions in the SpanishLaLiga16
Understanding female coaches’ and practitioners’ experience and support provision in relation to the menstrual cycle15
When neither team wants to win: A flaw of recent UEFA qualification rules15
Tackle and ruck technical proficiency in rugby union and rugby league: A systematic scoping review13
Comparison of the bench press one-repetition maximum obtained by different procedures: Direct assessment vs. lifts-to-failure equations vs. two-point method13
Matchplay characteristics and performance indicators of male junior and entry professional tennis players12
Coaches’ impact on youth athletes’ intentions to continue sport participation: The mediational influence of the coach–athlete relationship12
Coach-assessed skill learning progress of youth soccer players correlates with earlier childhood practice in other sports12
A systematic review of intrapersonal coach development programs: Examining the development and evaluation of programs to elicit coach reflection12
Performance analysis in esports: modelling performance at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship12
Analysis of finishing actions in men’s and women’s professional padel11
The use of inertial measurement units for analyzing change of direction movement in sports: A scoping review11
Concussion knowledge, attitude and reporting intention in rugby coaches and high school rugby players11
Effects of manipulating ball type on youth footballers’ performance during small-sided games11
Equipment modification can enhance skill learning in young field hockey players11
Specialist role coaching and skill training periodisation: A football goalkeeping case study11
How does practice change across the season? A descriptive study of the training structures and practice activities implemented by a professional Australian football team11
Mechanical character of lower limb for table tennis cross step maneuver11
Maturity timing and performance in a youth national basketball team: Do early-maturing players dominate?11
Analysis of the differences in serve effectiveness between Billie Jean King Cup (former Fed Cup) and Davis Cup doubles tennis matches10
Effects of 4-week small-sided games vs. high-intensity interval training with changes of direction in female collegiate basketball players10
Successful talent development in popular game sports in Switzerland: The case of ice hockey10
Comparison of different measures to monitor week-to-week changes in training load in high school runners10
Practical application of ecological dynamics for talent development in cricket10
Clustering performance in the European Basketball according to players’ characteristics and contextual variables10
Job stressors, strain, and psychological wellbeing among women sports coaches10
How playing area dimension and number of players constrain football performance during unbalanced ball possession games10
Effects of jump training on jumping performance of handball players: A systematic review with meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials10
Work-related ill- and well-being among Finnish sport coaches: Exploring the relationships between job demands, job resources, burnout and work engagement10
Positive youth development related athlete experiences and coach behaviors following a targeted coach education course10
Predicting elite success: Evidence comparing the career pathways of top 10 to 300 professional tennis players10
An exploratory investigation into the reception of verbal and video feedback provided to players in an Australian Football League club10
Perceived coach-created environment directly predicts high school athletes’ physical activity during sport10
Training Practices of Academy Rugby League and their Alignment to Physical Qualities Deemed Important for Current and Future Performance10
The use of player tracking data to analyze defensive play in professional soccer - A scoping review10
The contribution of skills in the interpretation of a volleyball set result with minimum score difference across genders9
Christian sports coaches and servant leadership9
How football team composition constrains emergent individual and collective tactical behaviours: Effects of player roles in creating different landscapes for shared affordances in small-sided and cond9
Real-time feedback using extended reality: A current overview and further integration into sports9
Does the longitudinal development of physical and anthropometric characteristics associate with professional career attainment in adolescent Australian footballers?9
Understanding key constraints and practice design in Rugby Union place kicking: Experiential knowledge of professional kickers and experienced coaches9
The influence of tactical formation on physical and technical match performance in male soccer: A systematic review9
Training and testing practices of strength and conditioning coaches in Argentinian Rugby Union9
Examining the roles of coaching experience and coach training on coaches’ perceived life skills teaching9
The creation of goal scoring opportunities at the 2015 women’s world cup8
Acute effects from changes in saddle height in perceived comfort during cycling8
Profiles of motivation, fear of failure and anxiety in young handball players: A cross-sectional study8
Coach awareness, knowledge and practice in relation to growth and maturation and training load in competitive, young gymnasts8
Perception of social support provided by coaches, optimism/pessimism, and psychological well-being: Gender differences and mediating effect models8
Concussion knowledge and attitudes amongst community club rugby stakeholders8
The perceptual, heart rate and technical-tactical characteristics of 3 × 3 basketball8
How does the workload applied during the training week and the contextual factors affect the physical responses of professional soccer players in the match?8
The tracking of internal and external training loads with next-day player-reported fatigue at different times of the season in elite soccer players8
Position specific peak impact and running demands of professional rugby union players during game play8
Tapering practices of elite CrossFit athletes8
Differences in anthropometric and physical performance characteristics between U17, U19, and Senior Irish female international football players8
The roles of different types of passion in emotional exhaustion and turnover intention among athletic coaches8
Evaluating basketball player’s rotation line-ups performance via statistical markov chain modelling8
Relationships between physiological characteristics and match demands in elite-level male field hockey players7
Effects of an integrative neuromuscular training protocol vs. FIFA 11+ on sprint, change of direction performance and inter-limb asymmetries in young soccer players7
Should team coaches care about justice? Perceived justice mediates the relation between coaches’ autonomy support and athletes’ satisfaction and self-rated progression7
Type of injury and recovery time in elite adolescent Korean judo athletes: An epidemiological study7
Eigenvalues make the difference – A network analysis of the Chinese Super League7
Talent development in women’s cricket: Perceptions and practices of elite players and coaches7
“Is it a slow day or a go day?”: The perceptions and applications of velocity-based training within elite strength and conditioning7
Effect of quality of opposition on game performance indicators in elite male volleyball7
How external and internal focus are used in the field: A review7
Estimating somatic maturity in adolescent soccer players: Methodological comparisons7
Skill acquisition practices of coaches on the British Para swimming World Class Programme7
Investigating the most important aspect of elite grass court tennis: Short points7
Lifelong learning pathway of a coach developer operating in a national sport federation7
Pass2vec: Analyzing soccer players’ passing style using deep learning6
Application of the behaviour change technique taxonomy (BCTTv1) to an inclusive physical literacy-based sport program for children and youth6
Design and validation of a tennis tool to control on-court technical and tactical training content6
Analyzing acute and daily load parameters in match situations – a comparison of classic and 3 × 3 basketball6
Post-match video-based feedback: A longitudinal work-based coach development program stimulating changes in coaches’ knowledge and understanding6
Quantifying the unfairness of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification6
Patterns of achievement-motivated behavior and performance as predictors for future success in rowing: A person-oriented study6
Identification of key career indicators in Portuguese football players6
Investigation of the interaction between coach transformational leadership and coaching competency change over time6
A united front: Coach and teammate motivational climate and team cohesion among female adolescent athletes6
An examination of in-season external training load in semi-professional soccer players: considerations of one and two match weekly microcycles6
Malandragem and Ginga: Socio-cultural constraints on the development of expertise and skills in Brazilian football6
The rugby tug-of-war: Exploring concussion-related behavioural intentions and behaviours in youth community rugby union in New Zealand6
Low Energy Availability and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport: What Coaches Should Know6
Challenging serve myths in doubles tennis6
The influence of the field orientation on physical demands in soccer small-sided games6
A principled approach to equipment scaling for children’s sport: A case study in basketball6
Can discreet performance banding, as compared to bio-banding, discriminate technical skills in male adolescent soccer players? A preliminary investigation6
An external focusing strategy was beneficial in experienced children but not in novices: The effect of external focus, internal focus, and holistic attention strategies6
The relationship between coach behavior and athlete self-regulated learning6
Inertial measurement units are ‘all g’: Inter-trial reliability when assessing upper and lower body impact loading in artistic gymnastics6
Spatial-temporal variables for swimming coaches: A comparison study between video and TritonWear sensor6
How much training do English male academy players really do? Load inside and outside of a football academy6
An exploration of the landscape of fundamental movement skills and strength development in UK professional football academies6
Coaches’ perceived pitfalls in delivering psychological skills training to high-level youth athletes in fencing and football6
Coaching style, sport enjoyment, and intent to continue participation among artistic swimmers6
Exploring the effects of interchange rotations on high-intensity activities of elite futsal players6
Do elite soccer players cover longer distance when losing? Differences between attackers and defenders6
Exploring how limiting the number of ball touches during small-sided games affects youth football players’ performance across different age groups6
Principles for technology use in athlete support across the skill level continuum6
Field hockey from the performance analyst’s perspective: A systematic review5
Is there a relationship between the overhead press and split jerk maximum performance? Influence of sex5
Barriers and facilitators to implementing the Activate injury prevention exercise programme – A qualitative study of schoolboy rugby coaches5
How coach leadership is related to the coach-athlete relationship in elite sport5
Hard knock coaching: A cross-cultural study of the effects of abusive leader behaviors on athlete satisfaction and commitment through interactional justice5
Performance characteristics of top-level youth judokas in light- and heavy-weight categories5
Sprint development practices in elite football code athletes5
Relationships between coach's leadership, group cohesion, affective states, sport satisfaction and goal attainment in competitive settings5
How to coach: A review of theoretical approaches for the development of a novel coach education framework5
The age, height, and body mass of Olympic swimmers: A 50-year review and update5
Learning to coach: An ecological dynamics perspective5
The association between sport specialisation and movement competency in youth: a systematic review5
Sport coaches’ positive emotions, task performance, and well-being: The mediating role of work satisfaction5
The differentiation of single and dual career athletes falls short: A person-oriented approach to characterize typical objective life situations of elite athletes5
Influence of non-scorer floater and numerical superiority on novices’ tactical behaviour and skill efficacy during basketball small-sided games5
Visual gaze behaviour during free-kicks in football5
Running more than before? The evolution of running load demands in the English Premier League5
Importance of perceived teammate support as a predictor of student-athletes’ positive emotions and subjective well-being5
Contemporary practices of high-performance swimming coaches on pacing skill development and competition preparation5
Will ‘we’ continue to exercise? The associations between group identification, identity leadership, and relational identification on group exercise class adherence5
Estimating team possessions in high-level European basketball competition5
The effect of adolescent athletes’ achievement goal orientation and perception of error on their sport-confidence5
The effects of lower-limb wearable resistance on sprint performance in high school American football athletes: A nine-week training study5
Research of visual attention in basketball shooting: A systematic review with meta-analysis5
The use of bounce in professional wheelchair tennis5
The influence of running performance on scoring the first goal in a soccer match5
The classification in Para swimming: Analysis of a Paralympic champion’s withdraw case4
Effects of video, priming, and music on motivation and self-efficacy in American football players4
Into the Eyes of the Referee: A Comparison of Elite and Sub-Elite Football Referees’ On-Field Visual Search Behaviour when making Foul Judgements4
Strength training for throwing velocity enhancement in overhead throw: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Exploring the effect of various match factors on team playing styles in the National Rugby League4
Servant leadership, leader effectiveness, and the role of political skill: A study of interscholastic sport administrators and coaches4
Acute:chronic workload ratio and training monotony variations over the season in youth soccer players: A systematic review4
Effective playing time in the Chinese Super League4
Perceptions and practices of fundamental movement skills in grassroots soccer coaches4
The nature of formative physical activities and sports in the development of senior volleyball players4
An eye-tracking study of how coach's nonverbal communication affects memorization of basketball tactical scenes4
The importance of aerobic capacity and nutrition in recreational master mountain runners’ performance and race-induced changes in body composition and biochemical blood indices4
Follow-up evaluation of the Coaching for Life Skills online training program4
Effect of weightlifting training on jumping ability, sprinting performance and squat strength: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Quantification of training and match-play load across a season in professional youth football players4
Spontaneous head movements characterize losing athletes during competition4
‘Zooming in’ on the antecedents of youth sport coaches’ autonomy-supportive and controlling interpersonal behaviours: a multimethod study4
Methodological intervention with soccer coaches to improve athlete-perceived coaching competency, satisfaction with the coach, enjoyment and intention to persist4
Quantifying jump-specific loads in beach volleyball by an inertial measurement device4
The influence of coaching efficacy on trust and usage of technology in golf instruction4
Using sport science to improve coaching: A case study of Felisha Johnson’s Road to Rio4
Evaluating the impact of a coach development intervention for improving coaching practices and player outcomes in netball: The MASTER coaching randomized control trial4
Professional padel tennis: Characteristics and effectiveness of the shots played to the fence4
The strength and conditioning practices and perspectives of soccer coaches and players4
Technical and physical performance across five consecutive seasons in elite European Soccer4
Longitudinal tracking of body composition, lower limb force-time characteristics and swimming start performance in high performance swimmers4
Technical–tactical skill assessments in small-sided soccer games: A scoping review4
Can prior instruction successfully alter the tackle type executed by a player?4
Effect of FIFA 11+ intervention on change of direction performance in soccer and futsal players: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Effects of complex strength training with elastic band program on repeated change of direction in young female handball players: Randomized control trial4
Beware of the blues: Wellbeing of coaches and support staff throughout the Olympic Games4
The video feedback viewing in novice weightlifters: Total control strategy improves snatch technique during learning4
Ready to perform? A qualitative-analytic investigation into professional football goalkeepers’ match warm-ups4
Group draw with unknown qualified teams: A lesson from the 2022 FIFA World Cup draw4
A systematic review of the criterion validity and reliability of technical and tactical field-based tests in soccer4
Variations in attack patterns between female and male opposite players in top-level volleyball4
External training load and the effects on training response following three different training sessions in young elite beach volleyball players4
Coaches’ perceptions of innovation programs of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation4
Nutrition knowledge and dietary intake of hurlers4
Women coaches at top level: Looking back through the maze4
The reliability of a linear position transducer and commercially available accelerometer to measure punching velocity in junior boxing athletes4
Influence of age and sex on drop jump landing strategies in élite youth soccer players4
A tale of two selection biases: The independent effects of relative age and biological maturity on player selection in the Football Association of Ireland's national talent pathway4
The effect of grunting on overhead throwing velocity in collegiate baseball pitchers3
A worldwide survey of perspectives on demands, resources, and barriers influencing the youth-to-senior transition in academy football players3
Does education improve adherence to a training monitoring program in recreational athletes?3
Effectively optimizing esports performance through movement science principles3
The association between junior tennis players’ physical and cognitive attributes and groundstroke performance3
Professional padel: Comparative gender analysis of game transitions during matches3
Does context matter? Unpacking differences in program quality and developmental experiences across competitive and recreational youth sport3
Discriminating performance profiles of cycling disciplines3
The role of mental fatigue in soccer: a systematic review3
Play more, enjoy more, keep playing; rugby is a simple game3
Balancing sport and academic development: Perceptions of football players and coaches in two types of Norwegian school-based dual career development environments3
Rounding the base: A lower extremity biomechanical analysis in softball players3
Performance characteristics of selected/deselected under 11 players from a professional youth football academy3
How small-sided games’ court dimensions affect tactical-technical behavior in beginner volleyball athletes3
Voices of Singapore national beach volleyball female athletes: What is an ideal coach?3
Identifying the challenges to implementing a neuromuscular warm-up in pre-elite netball3
Relationships between flow state and motivation in junior elite tennis players: Differences by gender3
Analysis of match report indicators in men's volleyball Olympics and world championships (2014–2021) depending on the type of final score3
Practice and match workload of a female tennis player in two annual seasons: A single-case study3
A comparison of US and Scotland youth soccer coaches’ legal consciousness regarding concussion safety regulations3
Investigating the role of age and maturation on the association between tennis experience and cognitive function in junior beginner to intermediate-level tennis players3
Examining how data becomes information for an upcoming opponent in football3
Concurrent training in team sports: A systematic review3
Cooperative passing network features are associated with successful match outcomes in the Australian Football League3
‘I’m not prepared to sacrifice my life for other people’s tennis’: An explorative study into the career narratives of female tennis coaches3
A paradox of tournament seeding3
“You come up with different theories every year”: Practitioner perceptions of injury risk factors and player monitoring practices in elite men’s domestic cricket3
The Portuguese referee performance model3
Characteristics of goals scored in open play at the 2017 and 2018 Australian national cerebral palsy football championship3
Dark traits as a potential feature of leadership in the high-performance sports coach3
Evolution of match performance parameters in elite men's handball 2012–20223
Repetitive head impacts in a collegiate football season: Exposure and effects3
Application of a nutrition support protocol to encourage optimisation of nutrient intake in provincial academy rugby union athletes in New Zealand: Practical considerations and challenges from a tea3
The effect of spin level and ball exit speed on forearm muscle activity in the tennis forehand stroke3
The effect of proprioceptive training on technical soccer skills in female soccer3
Factors associated with coach–athlete conversations about mental health in intercollegiate sport3
Influence of game format and team strategy on physical and perceptual intensity in soccer small-sided games3
The effects of an HIIT program on young soccer players’ physical performance3
The influence of possession status on the physical output of male international hockey players3
Reference values for external and internal training intensity monitoring in professional male soccer players: A systematic review3
Developing coach education to enhance rugby coaches’ understanding and application of game centred approaches—The importance of questioning3
Does disallowing body checking impact offensive performance in non-elite under-15 and under-18 youth ice hockey leagues? A video-analysis study3
The under representation of women coaches in high-performance sport3
Massed and distributed practice on learning the forehand shot in tennis3
Integrated evaluation of team strategy, training practices and game performance of a basketball team3
Application of wearable technologies for player motion analysis in racket sports: A systematic review3
Coaching practices to develop underwater fly kick performance in swimming training3
Mapping ethical positions with regard to a coach’s decision to select (or not) an injured athlete3
Training practices and perceptions of soccer officials: Insights from the Referee Training Activity Questionnaire3
Vertical and horizontal barbell kinematics indicate differences in mechanical advantage between using an arched or flat back posture in the barbell bench press exercise3
Adolescent football players’ sleep, wellness and school physical activity over different phases of the year3
Wall Drop Punt Kick & Catch: Contributions towards the creation of a new gross manipulative coordination test3
Does the presence of an opponent affect object projection accuracy in elite athletes? A study of the landing location of the short serve in elite badminton players3
Nonverbal expressions of soccer coaches during the game and their potential effects on observers3
Bullseye: Effects of autonomy support and enhanced expectancies on dart throwing3
A literature overview of modern biomechanical-based technologies for bike-fitting professionals and coaches3
Cohesion and collective efficacy as antecedents and team performance as an outcome of team resilience in team sports3
Sanctioning of breakdown infringements during the knockout stage of the 2019 rugby world cup3
Is training age predictive of physiological performance changes in developmental rugby league players? A prospective longitudinal study3
Optimal and suboptimal video instructions change movement execution in young talented basketball players3
Longitudinal perspective of autonomy support on habitual physical activity of adolescents3
Determining strength training needs using the force-velocity profile of elite female handball and volleyball players3
Coaches’ opinions about teaching defensive skills for youth handball teams2
Comparison of two measurement devices for obtaining horizontal force-velocity profile variables during sprint running2
Effects of different sprint training programs with ball on explosive, high-intensity and endurance-intensive performances in male young soccer players2
A descriptive and exploratory study of factors contributing to augmented feedback duration in professional Australian football practice2
Characteristics of a person-centred coaching approach2
The undervalued set piece: Analysis of soccer throw-ins during the English Premier League 2018–2019 season2
Does tackle height influence offload success in rugby union? Analysis from the 2019 Rugby World Cup2
A tactical periodisation model for Gaelic football2
Physical testing and strength and conditioning practices differ between coaches working in academy and first team soccer2
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