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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
What male coaches want to know about the menstrual cycle in women’s team sports: Performance, health, and communication37
Towards a contemporary player learning in development framework for sports practitioners35
The effect of the Video Assistant Referee on referee’s decisions in the Spanish LaLiga26
Understanding female coaches’ and practitioners’ experience and support provision in relation to the menstrual cycle24
Contemporary practices of strength and conditioning coaches in professional cricket21
Tackle and ruck technical proficiency in rugby union and rugby league: A systematic scoping review21
The use of player tracking data to analyze defensive play in professional soccer - A scoping review21
Learning to coach: An ecological dynamics perspective19
Coaches’ impact on youth athletes’ intentions to continue sport participation: The mediational influence of the coach–athlete relationship19
The use of inertial measurement units for analyzing change of direction movement in sports: A scoping review17
Matchplay characteristics and performance indicators of male junior and entry professional tennis players17
Analysis of finishing actions in men’s and women’s professional padel16
The rugby tug-of-war: Exploring concussion-related behavioural intentions and behaviours in youth community rugby union in New Zealand16
Maturity timing and performance in a youth national basketball team: Do early-maturing players dominate?15
Job stressors, strain, and psychological wellbeing among women sports coaches15
Effect of quality of opposition on game performance indicators in elite male volleyball15
Into the Eyes of the Referee: A Comparison of Elite and Sub-Elite Football Referees’ On-Field Visual Search Behaviour when making Foul Judgements14
Real-time feedback using extended reality: A current overview and further integration into sports14
The influence of tactical formation on physical and technical match performance in male soccer: A systematic review14
Running more than before? The evolution of running load demands in the English Premier League13
Profiles of motivation, fear of failure and anxiety in young handball players: A cross-sectional study12
How to coach: A review of theoretical approaches for the development of a novel coach education framework12
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 cond12
Analysis of the differences in serve effectiveness between Billie Jean King Cup (former Fed Cup) and Davis Cup doubles tennis matches12
Effects of 4-week small-sided games vs. high-intensity interval training with changes of direction in female collegiate basketball players12
Low Energy Availability and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport: What Coaches Should Know12
An external focusing strategy was beneficial in experienced children but not in novices: The effect of external focus, internal focus, and holistic attention strategies12
The influence of running performance on scoring the first goal in a soccer match11
Coach awareness, knowledge and practice in relation to growth and maturation and training load in competitive, young gymnasts11
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 pathway11
Investigating the most important aspect of elite grass court tennis: Short points11
Analyzing acute and daily load parameters in match situations – a comparison of classic and 3 × 3 basketball11
Effects of an integrative neuromuscular training protocol vs. FIFA 11+ on sprint, change of direction performance and inter-limb asymmetries in young soccer players11
How does practice change across the season? A descriptive study of the training structures and practice activities implemented by a professional Australian football team11
Skill acquisition practices of coaches on the British Para swimming World Class Programme11
How coach leadership is related to the coach-athlete relationship in elite sport11
How does the workload applied during the training week and the contextual factors affect the physical responses of professional soccer players in the match?11
Technical–tactical skill assessments in small-sided soccer games: A scoping review11
The tracking of internal and external training loads with next-day player-reported fatigue at different times of the season in elite soccer players11
Training and testing practices of strength and conditioning coaches in Argentinian Rugby Union11
Type of injury and recovery time in elite adolescent Korean judo athletes: An epidemiological study11
Relationships between physiological characteristics and match demands in elite-level male field hockey players10
Successful talent development in popular game sports in Switzerland: The case of ice hockey10
How external and internal focus are used in the field: A review10
The roles of different types of passion in emotional exhaustion and turnover intention among athletic coaches10
Same name, same game, but is it different? An investigation of female rugby union match events in Canadian Varsity players10
Coaching style, sport enjoyment, and intent to continue participation among artistic swimmers10
Estimating somatic maturity in adolescent soccer players: Methodological comparisons10
Evaluating basketball player’s rotation line-ups performance via statistical markov chain modelling10
Barriers and facilitators to implementing the Activate injury prevention exercise programme – A qualitative study of schoolboy rugby coaches9
Exploring how limiting the number of ball touches during small-sided games affects youth football players’ performance across different age groups9
Sport coaches’ positive emotions, task performance, and well-being: The mediating role of work satisfaction9
Talent development in women’s cricket: Perceptions and practices of elite players and coaches9
“Is it a slow day or a go day?”: The perceptions and applications of velocity-based training within elite strength and conditioning9
Quantifying the unfairness of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification9
Do elite soccer players cover longer distance when losing? Differences between attackers and defenders8
An eye-tracking study of how coach's nonverbal communication affects memorization of basketball tactical scenes8
Position specific peak impact and running demands of professional rugby union players during game play8
A literature overview of modern biomechanical-based technologies for bike-fitting professionals and coaches8
Research of visual attention in basketball shooting: A systematic review with meta-analysis8
Menstruation and training – A quantitative study of (non-)communication about the menstrual cycle in German sports clubs8
Can discreet performance banding, as compared to bio-banding, discriminate technical skills in male adolescent soccer players? A preliminary investigation8
A united front: Coach and teammate motivational climate and team cohesion among female adolescent athletes8
Exploring the effects of interchange rotations on high-intensity activities of elite futsal players8
Women coaches at top level: Looking back through the maze8
Principles for technology use in athlete support across the skill level continuum8
Spatial-temporal variables for swimming coaches: A comparison study between video and TritonWear sensor8
Post-match video-based feedback: A longitudinal work-based coach development program stimulating changes in coaches’ knowledge and understanding7
The use of a holistic focus of attention to improve standing long jump performance among NCAA track and field athletes7
Can prior instruction successfully alter the tackle type executed by a player?7
The effect of proprioceptive training on technical soccer skills in female soccer7
Servant leadership, leader effectiveness, and the role of political skill: A study of interscholastic sport administrators and coaches7
Estimating team possessions in high-level European basketball competition7
Challenging serve myths in doubles tennis7
How can social support make coaching less stressful? A longitudinal inquiry with sports coaches7
Exploring the effect of various match factors on team playing styles in the National Rugby League7
Group draw with unknown qualified teams: A lesson from the 2022 FIFA World Cup draw7
Pass2vec: Analyzing soccer players’ passing style using deep learning7
The effects of lower-limb wearable resistance on sprint performance in high school American football athletes: A nine-week training study7
Sprint development practices in elite football code athletes7
The under representation of women coaches in high-performance sport7
Application of the behaviour change technique taxonomy (BCTTv1) to an inclusive physical literacy-based sport program for children and youth7
Malandragem and Ginga: Socio-cultural constraints on the development of expertise and skills in Brazilian football7
Design and validation of a tennis tool to control on-court technical and tactical training content7
Evaluating the impact of a coach development intervention for improving coaching practices and player outcomes in netball: The MASTER coaching randomized control trial6
A data-driven approach to assist offensive and defensive players in optimal decision making6
The age, height, and body mass of Olympic swimmers: A 50-year review and update6
Effectively optimizing esports performance through movement science principles6
Inertial measurement units are ‘all g’: Inter-trial reliability when assessing upper and lower body impact loading in artistic gymnastics6
How much training do English male academy players really do? Load inside and outside of a football academy6
Coach approaches to practice design in performance tennis6
The undervalued set piece: Analysis of soccer throw-ins during the English Premier League 2018–2019 season6
The differentiation of single and dual career athletes falls short: A person-oriented approach to characterize typical objective life situations of elite athletes6
The effect of adolescent athletes’ achievement goal orientation and perception of error on their sport-confidence6
Relationships between coach's leadership, group cohesion, affective states, sport satisfaction and goal attainment in competitive settings6
Technical and physical performance across five consecutive seasons in elite European Soccer6
Talent identification and development in judo: A perspective from Brazilian coaches6
Towards maximizing expected possession outcome in soccer6
Quantifying jump-specific loads in beach volleyball by an inertial measurement device6
Decoding the decade: Analyzing the evolution of technical and tactical performance in elite padel tennis (2011–2021)6
The influence of the field orientation on physical demands in soccer small-sided games6
Variations in attack patterns between female and male opposite players in top-level volleyball6
Multifactorial analysis of football penalty kicks in the Portuguese First League: A replication study6
Perceptions and practices of fundamental movement skills in grassroots soccer coaches6
Longitudinal tracking of body composition, lower limb force-time characteristics and swimming start performance in high performance swimmers6
Is there a relationship between the overhead press and split jerk maximum performance? Influence of sex6
Will ‘we’ continue to exercise? The associations between group identification, identity leadership, and relational identification on group exercise class adherence6
Collegiate coach attitudes towards lesbians and gay men6
Analyzing continuous coach education courses in Portugal: Implications for youth development6
Influence of non-scorer floater and numerical superiority on novices’ tactical behaviour and skill efficacy during basketball small-sided games6
An exploration of the landscape of fundamental movement skills and strength development in UK professional football academies6
The effect of spin level and ball exit speed on forearm muscle activity in the tennis forehand stroke5
The strength and conditioning practices and perspectives of soccer coaches and players5
The importance of aerobic capacity and nutrition in recreational master mountain runners’ performance and race-induced changes in body composition and biochemical blood indices5
Quantification of training and match-play load across a season in professional youth football players5
Effect of FIFA 11+ intervention on change of direction performance in soccer and futsal players: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Strength training for throwing velocity enhancement in overhead throw: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
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 tea5
The association between sport specialisation and movement competency in youth: a systematic review5
Longitudinal perspective of autonomy support on habitual physical activity of adolescents5
Is a compact organization important for defensive success in elite soccer? – Analysis based on player tracking data5
There’s a perfect way to do things, and there’s a real way to do things’: Attitudes, beliefs and practices of strength and conditioning coaches in elite international women's rugby union5
The association between junior tennis players’ physical and cognitive attributes and groundstroke performance5
Pro-agility unpacked: Variability, comparability and diagnostic value5
Factors associated with coach–athlete conversations about mental health in intercollegiate sport5
A worldwide survey of perspectives on demands, resources, and barriers influencing the youth-to-senior transition in academy football players5
Cooperative passing network features are associated with successful match outcomes in the Australian Football League5
Field hockey from the performance analyst’s perspective: A systematic review5
Analysis of match report indicators in men's volleyball Olympics and world championships (2014–2021) depending on the type of final score5
Exploring youth sport coaches’ perceptions of intended outcomes of leadership behaviours5
Massed and distributed practice on learning the forehand shot in tennis5
Effects of different sprint training programs with ball on explosive, high-intensity and endurance-intensive performances in male young soccer players5
Variations in Attack Patterns between Female and Male outside hitters in top-level Volleyball5
A systematic review of the criterion validity and reliability of technical and tactical field-based tests in soccer5
The coach's role during an athlete's rehabilitation following sports injury: A scoping review5
Repetitive head impacts in a collegiate football season: Exposure and effects5
The effects of an HIIT program on young soccer players’ physical performance5
Defining psychosocial strength and conditioning coaching competencies: A participatory action research approach5
Effect of weightlifting training on jumping ability, sprinting performance and squat strength: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Application of wearable technologies for player motion analysis in racket sports: A systematic review5
Effects of complex strength training with elastic band program on repeated change of direction in young female handball players: Randomized control trial5
Professional padel tennis: Characteristics and effectiveness of the shots played to the fence5
Investigating the role of age and maturation on the association between tennis experience and cognitive function in junior beginner to intermediate-level tennis players5
The influence of different game formats on technical actions and playing time parameters – A study with under-7 and under-9 soccer players in a competitive context5
Beware of the blues: Wellbeing of coaches and support staff throughout the Olympic Games5
Examining how data becomes information for an upcoming opponent in football4
“You come up with different theories every year”: Practitioner perceptions of injury risk factors and player monitoring practices in elite men’s domestic cricket4
Effects of contrast strength training with elastic band program on sprint, jump, strength, balance and repeated change of direction in young female handball players4
Investigating the relationship between authentic leadership and athletes' commitment, positive affect, and perceived teammate prosocial behaviour via trust and team culture4
Classifying player positions in second-tier Australian football competitions using technical skill indicators4
How small-sided games’ court dimensions affect tactical-technical behavior in beginner volleyball athletes4
The influence of coaching efficacy on trust and usage of technology in golf instruction4
Reference values for external and internal training intensity monitoring in professional male soccer players: A systematic review4
Effective playing time in the Chinese Super League4
The nature of formative physical activities and sports in the development of senior volleyball players4
Effects of flywheel resistance training using horizontal vs vertical exercises4
Training practices and perceptions of soccer officials: Insights from the Referee Training Activity Questionnaire4
Before supporting athletes, evaluate your coach–athlete relationship: Exploring the link between coach leadership and coach–athlete relationship4
Hormonal contraceptive use, menstrual cycle characteristics and training/nutrition related profiles of elite, sub-elite and amateur athletes and exercisers: One size is unlikely to fit all4
Relationships between flow state and motivation in junior elite tennis players: Differences by gender4
A philosophical approach to aligning strength and conditioning support to a coaches' performance model: A case study from a national rowing performance programme4
Cohesion and collective efficacy as antecedents and team performance as an outcome of team resilience in team sports4
Play more, enjoy more, keep playing; rugby is a simple game4
How do situational variables, related to shooting, in elite Gaelic football impact shot success?4
Importance of fundamental movement skills to predict technical skills in youth grassroots soccer: A machine learning approach4
Nonverbal expressions of soccer coaches during the game and their potential effects on observers4
The reliability and validity of mobalytics proving ground as a perceptual-motor skill assessment for esports4
The role of coaching identity and life purpose orientations in holistic athlete development4
The impact of different playing surfaces on physiological parameters in collegiate DI American football athletes4
Clash of sports organization cultures: Differences in table tennis training and coach–athlete relationships between China and Poland4
Life satisfaction of Paralympians: The role of needs satisfaction and passion4
Using sport science to improve coaching: A case study of Felisha Johnson’s Road to Rio4
Effects of brief periods of combined plyometric exercise and high intensity running training on the fitness performance of male U17 handball players4
Acute:chronic workload ratio and training monotony variations over the season in youth soccer players: A systematic review4
Riding to the top – A systematic review on multidimensional performance indicators in surfing4
Balancing sport and academic development: Perceptions of football players and coaches in two types of Norwegian school-based dual career development environments4
Post-concussion return-to-play: Perceptions of roles, responsibilities and guideline implementation among community club rugby stakeholders in South Africa4
The calculation of player speed from tracking data4
Vertical and horizontal barbell kinematics indicate differences in mechanical advantage between using an arched or flat back posture in the barbell bench press exercise4
Developing coach education to enhance rugby coaches’ understanding and application of game centred approaches—The importance of questioning4
Integrated evaluation of team strategy, training practices and game performance of a basketball team4
Coaching special Olympics: A scoping review4
The video feedback viewing in novice weightlifters: Total control strategy improves snatch technique during learning4
Influence of game format and team strategy on physical and perceptual intensity in soccer small-sided games4
Practices of strength and conditioning coaches across Chinese high-performance sports4
Concurrent training in team sports: A systematic review4
Does education improve adherence to a training monitoring program in recreational athletes?4
Considering perceptual experiences and adaptive actions in performance analysis of elite Formula Kite riders by combining qualitative data and measured key indicators of performance4
Coaches’ perceptions of innovation programs of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation4
Teamwork and performance in professional women's football: A network-based analysis4
Does context matter? Unpacking differences in program quality and developmental experiences across competitive and recreational youth sport4
A comparison of US and Scotland youth soccer coaches’ legal consciousness regarding concussion safety regulations4
‘He’s got growth’: Coaches understanding and management of the growth spurt in male academy football4
Values, motivational orientation and team cohesion amongst youth soccer players4
Evolution of match performance parameters in elite men's handball 2012–20223
Designing small-sided games for counter-attack training in youth soccer3
Identifying the challenges to implementing a neuromuscular warm-up in pre-elite netball3
Reciprocal and non-reciprocal employee–organization relationship: The mediating roles of felt obligation and workplace familism among collegiate coaches3
Cycling coaches’ trauma–specific education, familiarity with post-traumatic stress, and coaching efficacy3
The half-time talk: A mixed-method examination of youth-elite football coaches’ behaviours and team-management strategies3
Mental health training for high school coaches and athletic directors: Community-based participatory research to Coach Beyond3
Practice and match workload of a female tennis player in two annual seasons: A single-case study3
Examining positional difference in basketball players’ field goal accuracy using Bayesian hierarchical model3
Does disallowing body checking impact offensive performance in non-elite under-15 and under-18 youth ice hockey leagues? A video-analysis study3
Sleep hygiene education for improving sleep in ultra-marathon swimmers: Guidance for coaches and swimmers3
Physical testing and strength and conditioning practices differ between coaches working in academy and first team soccer3
Anthropometric and physical performance determinants of young tennis players progressing through a talent identification and development programme3
Characteristics of a person-centred coaching approach3
A qualitative study exploring tactical performance determinants from the perspective of three Rugby World Cup coaches3
Comparing the Yo-Yo intermittent and Bronco tests and their associations with match demands among amateur rugby union referees3
Influence of the importance of the point and service tactical position in the shot following the return in men’s and women’s professional padel3
Characteristics of goals scored in open play at the 2017 and 2018 Australian national cerebral palsy football championship3
‘I’m not prepared to sacrifice my life for other people’s tennis’: An explorative study into the career narratives of female tennis coaches3
Monitoring of internal and external loads to interpret acute and chronic fatigue in indoor team sports: A systematic review3
The demands of training and match-play on elite and highly trained junior tennis players: A systematic review3
A paradox of tournament seeding3
Rounding the base: A lower extremity biomechanical analysis in softball players3
More than rugby: A scoping review of coaches in rugby3
The influence of possession status on the physical output of male international hockey players3
Pre- and post-competitive anxiety and match outcome in elite international junior tennis players3
Nutrition knowledge and dietary intake of hurlers3
Influence of coaches’ motivating style on motivation, and sport commitment of young water polo players3
Multilevel analysis of evolution of team process and their relation to performance in semi-professional soccer3
Comparison of two measurement devices for obtaining horizontal force-velocity profile variables during sprint running3
The player makes the coach: Exploring player development among Division I basketball coaches3
The effect of grunting on overhead throwing velocity in collegiate baseball pitchers3
Combining sport and conventional military training provides superior improvements in physical test performance3
Age-related changes in the performance of bowlers in Test match cricket3
Additional players and half-court areas enhance group tactical-technical behavior and decrease physical and physiological responses in basketball small-sided games3
Comparing the physical effects of combining small-sided games with short high-intensity interval training or repeated sprint training in youth soccer players: A parallel-study design3
Coach competence, justice, and authentic leadership: An athlete satisfaction model3
Designing facilitated task constraints for different age groups in soccer: The impact of floaters’ rules3
The association between training load and physical development in professional male youth soccer players: a systematic review3
“Train as you play”: Improving effectiveness of training in youth soccer players3
The Portuguese referee performance model3
Sanctioning of breakdown infringements during the knockout stage of the 2019 rugby world cup3
Do serve distance and net height modify serve biomechanics in young tennis players?3
Wall Drop Punt Kick & Catch: Contributions towards the creation of a new gross manipulative coordination test3
Questioning the validity and reliability of using a video-based test to assess decision making among female and male water polo players3
The relationship between flourishing, injury status, and resilience in collegiate athletes3
Perceptions and approaches of golf coaches towards strength and conditioning activities for youth golfers3
External load of different format small-sided games in youth football players in relation to age3
Effects of repeated-sprint training in hypoxia induced by voluntary hypoventilation on performance during ice hockey off-season3
Exploring the feasibility of a constraints-based curriculum with British diving coaches3
A tactical periodisation model for Gaelic football3
Optimal and suboptimal video instructions change movement execution in young talented basketball players3
Relations between empowering and disempowering motivational climate with burnout, fear of failure and grit3
Improved performance in youth netballers using two different length netball specific warm-ups3
Professional padel: Comparative gender analysis of game transitions during matches3
The content and load of preseason field-based training in a championship-winning professional rugby league team: A case study3
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