International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

Article	Citations
A qualitative analysis of existing concussion return to play protocols and psychological recovery management in Gaelic games	51
Spatial partitioning of the football pitch based on successful passing paths	41
Kinematics and kinetics of pick-up acceleration	32
Quantifying defensive performance in football: A piecewise parametric survival approach to goal scoring time	30
Effects of player rotation strategies on autonomic regulation, perceived exertion, and recovery in basketball	25
How much training do English male academy players really do? Load inside and outside of a football academy	23
Exploring the influence of task and environmental constraints on batting and bowling performance in cricket: A systematic review	22
Concurrent training in team sports: A systematic review	22
Burnout and cognitive workload among elite basketball coaches: Effects of coaching experience and practice structure	21
Current strength and conditioning in Southeast Asia: Practices, challenges, and emerging trends	21
Basic psychological need support, need satisfaction, and autonomous motivation in coach-athlete relationships: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
What do we know (and not know) about adolescent awkwardness in youth sports? A narrative review	21
A case study of a sports school scholarship programme: Student-athlete dual career competency development and perceptions of the talent development environment	20
A data-driven analysis of the technical and tactical evolution of elite women's football	20
Can horizontal jump performance using minimal individual differences be used to regulate training load in young soccer players? A randomized controlled trial	19
The effects of different kinematic sequences of the elite golf swing on clubhead speed	19
The association between elite Australian football game-centric technical skills and running demands	19
‘ Mundane, repetitive, and forgettable’ : A qualitative investigation of elite Gaelic football players’ perceptions of half-time team talks	18
Uncovering the roles of complexity and expertise in memorizing tactical movements from videos with coach's pointing gestures and guided gaze	18
Knee sleeve practices and beliefs in recreational and competitive strength sport athletes: An international cross-sectional survey	18
Naturalistic decision-making of football coaches	18
Neck training in military pilots: A scoping review	17
Multi-sports training in English soccer academies: A survey exploring practices, practitioner perspectives, and barriers to use	16
Accuracy and reliability of college athletes’ scoring of artificial urine color samples to determine hydration status	16
The impacts of organizational justice on collegiate coaches’ attitudinal outcomes: Mediating effect of trust	16

Development of the brief expertise scale for sports coaching	16
Psychometric properties of the Recovery Experience Questionnaire in a coaching population	16
Considerations for vertical jump testing in collegiate basketball players: The impact of immediate individual versus social comparison feedback and team leaderboard engagement	16
An exploration of differential ratings of perceived exertion and training load in women's collegiate ice hockey	16
Competent cultural leadership in youth sport: A modified delphi study	15
Female para-athletes’ menstrual health: An overlooked chapter in sports research	15
Effect of intra-session exercise sequence on the load–velocity relationship variables after a concurrent sprint interval and resistance training program	15
Comparison of physical demands between matches and small-sided games in Australian Football	15
Impact of the Tactical Critical Thinking Program (TPCT) on ball control and passing accuracy in U-8 football players: A quasi-experimental study	15
Impact of resistance training frequency on physiological and performance adaptations: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Effect of different set configurations on barbell trajectories during the power snatch	14
Identifying the characteristics, constraints, and enablers to creating value in applied performance analysis	14
Athletes’ transitions from part-time to full-time performance programmes: Athletes’ and coaches’ perceptions	14
Interpretable machine learning with SHAP for esports performance analysis of professional counter-strike players from 2012 to 2025	14
Barriers and facilitators to implementing the Activate injury prevention exercise programme – A qualitative study of schoolboy rugby coaches	14
Training and testing practices of strength and conditioning coaches in Argentinian Rugby Union	13
Integrating strength and conditioning training and golf practice during the golf season: Approaches and perceptions of highly skilled golfers	13
The strategy tradeoff between risk and reward in soccer: Expected ball gain and expected possession value in Bundesliga	13
Competing at sea level reduces high-intensity match running performance in elite U20 soccer players chronically training at moderate altitude	13
Coach and player rating of perceived challenge (RPC) as a skill monitoring tool in Rugby union	13
An investigation of data-driven player positional roles within the Australian Football League Women's competition using technical skill match-play data	13
Effects of forward, backward, and combined resisted sprint training on sprint performance, sprint kinematics, and isokinetic knee muscle function in recreational soccer players	13
Factors influencing the intentions of people with disabilities to participate in e-sports: An application of the theory of planned behavior	13
The effect of real-time visual feedback and verbal encouragement on repetition velocity of squat, bench press and deadlift exercises in competitive powerlifters	13
Psychometric properties of the French athlete version of the Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (Fr-CART-Q)	12
Exploring adaptive coaching practices in elite table tennis: A qualitative perspective on tactical evolution and talent logic in the ABS ball era	12
Subjective knowledge in open water activities: Scale development and validation	12
Community cricket coaches are ill-equipped for technical coaching of pace bowlers: A survey of Australian coaches	12
The accuracy of measuring velocity during weightlifting movements with five velocity-based training devices	12
Coaching special Olympics: A scoping review	12
Erratum to “Playing style identification in team sports: A systematic review from statistical dimensionality reduction to unsupervised machine learning”	12
Expert perspectives on managing high-performance tennis pathways in South America: A qualitative analysis	12
An investigation of Swedish children and adolescents’ fun priorities in youth ice hockey	11
The adaptable coach – A critical review of the practical implications for traditional and constraints–led approaches in sports coaching: A commentary	11
An evaluation of the hot-hand hypothesis in the NBA when accounting for shot difficulty	11
Group cohesion profiles in athletes: Relationships with two waves of coping and affects in competition	11
The influence of relative pitch size on external load in professional men's soccer	11
Exploring determinants of international transfers of women soccer players in Portuguese football	11
Zones where corner kicks are most effective in the penalty box: Is there a sweet spot?	11
The technical and tactical demands and capabilities of six English Category 1 academy goalkeepers: A case study	10
Practices and perceptions of strength and conditioning in female golf: A survey study of touring professionals	10
Should sports scientists and coaches provide sodium supplementation to professional soccer players? Insights from English premier league players	10
An AI-based posture recognition system for analyzing the impact of core muscle strength on the forehand loop against backspin in table tennis	10
Cluster analysis on ball recovery and handling from top 5 European leagues reveals emerging tactical patterns in soccer	10
Applications of higher order Markov models and Pressure Index to strategize controlled run chases in Twenty20 cricket	10
The effects of attentional focus instructions on approach jump performance	10
Effects of physical training on change of direction performance: A systematic review with meta-analysis	9
Mathematical model to support the identification of young football players with sufficient physical fitness to join professional women's teams	9
A comparison of match demands using ball-in-play versus whole-match data in the 2023 super rugby Américas champion team	9
Deep learning and sentiment analysis framework for classifying YouTube home-fitness videos	9

Athlete perceptions of in-person training, extended reality and video technologies for perceptual-cognitive development: A qualitative exploration of developmental American football quarterbacks’ pers	9
Training and competition pathways to the Olympic games: Insights from developmental experiences of Colombian Olympians	9
‘I’m not prepared to sacrifice my life for other people’s tennis’: An explorative study into the career narratives of female tennis coaches	9
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 pathway	9
Quantifying player versatility through lineup-based playing styles in elite basketball	9
Sex-based differences in concussion incidence and its underlying injury mechanism in team bat/stick sports: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Evolution of physiological responses and quantification of neuromuscular fatigue during competition in male amateur padel players	9
Addressing gender disparities in youth sport coaching: A narrative review of European programmes (FEMCoach project)	9
Shall we double the box? – Pitch scaling strategies for enhanced representativeness in soccer training	8
The strategic delivery of video-based coaching: A season-long investigation in one English youth soccer academy	8
Evaluating training load self-monitoring in female soccer players: Estimating GPS-derived parameters	8
Rink hockey “Ok-XS”. Motor behavior effects of scaling games in U8 players	8
Participation in the under-18 Euroleague Next Generation Tournament does not predict attaining NBA, Euroleague, or Eurocup	8
Assessment of spatiotemporal sprinting kinematics in the field: A comparison of a commercial 2-D markerless motion capture software using artificial intelligence with OptoJump	8
Exploring the relationship between coach-initiated motivational climate and athlete well-being, resilience, and psychological safety in competitive sport teams	8
The misalignment between developmental pathways assumptions and enacted practice in youth football: Perspectives of technical directors in elite academies	8
Effects of plyometric training on adolescent basketball players: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	8
Moderate–intensity double interval training to prepare the bike-to-run transition in long-distance triathletes: A narrative review	8
The “sports wars”: A contest theory approach to cities hosting game	8
Influence of height and reach on fight-ending punches in the Ultimate Fighting Championship™ mixed martial arts promotion	8
Peer-to-peer online video feedback with pedagogical activity improves the snatch learning during the COVID-19-induced confinement in young weightlifting athletes	8
Talent development environment questionnaire: Validation and exploratory analysis across international basketball academies	8
Locomotor activities and subjective load differences between professional youth soccer players and professional development loans: A comparative analysis	8
Youth sport coaches' perceptions of participating in the Transformational Coaching Workshop – A qualitative evaluation	8
Absolute and relative peak power and optimum power load in Back Squat and bent-over row exercises in judo athletes: The role of body weight	7
Practice activities and behaviours employed by youth soccer coaches within a professional female soccer academy in England: A case study	7
A systematic review investigating mentorship programmes for women in coaching and leadership roles in sport	7
Canadian adolescent tackle football coaches’ helmet fitting experience, procedures, and beliefs for helmets and mouthguards effectiveness against injury	7
Assessing biological maturity timing by MRI and coaches’ eye in elite youth soccer players: A comparison between objective and subjective diagnostics utilizing correlation and single case analyses	7
Win three-sets sports: Game patterns, gender comparisons, and comeback analysis	7
Winning patterns under special conditions in elite men's padel players	7
Breast and/or bra implications for women golfers: A systematic scoping review	7
A comparison of three load-velocity based methods to estimate maximum overhead press performance in weightlifters	7
Macro periodisation of competition in international women's tennis: Insights for long-term athlete development	7
Gender differences in leadership behaviors of female coaches and their leadership effectiveness	7
How do young soccer players train? A 5-year analysis of weekly microcycle training load characteristics in an elite youth academy	7
What key variables differentiating positions across age categories in rugby union?	7
An eye-tracking study of how coach's nonverbal communication affects memorization of basketball tactical scenes	7
Habit or lack of education? Hypohydration is present in elite senior judo athletes even during a weight-stable training camp	7
What do athlete's really think? Athlete perceptions and attitudes towards athlete monitoring in professional soccer	7
Provision of online information and resources for resistance training in Australian youth sports: A scoping review	7
Biological sex minimally affects the free-weight back squat load-velocity profile when accounting for relative strength: An exploratory study	7
Profiling of expert bouldering routesetters	7
Muscle power performance in parabadminton athletes: Influence of classification, impairment type, and anthropometric factors	7
Relations between empowering and disempowering motivational climate with burnout, fear of failure and grit	7
“It is like an endless guilt trip”: Greco-Roman wrestlers’ willingness to train and compete with pain and/or injuries	7
The effects of an HIIT program on young soccer players’ physical performance	7
The importance of paddling to surfing performance: Insights from elite athletes, coaches, and performance support practitioners	7
From lab to court: Evaluating the transfer of improvements in laboratory assessments to on-court performance in collegiate basketball players	7
Reliability of isometric mid-thigh pull for maximal strength testing in youth athletes: A systematic review	7
Training, anthropometric, and physical performance profiles of players in the U19 men's volleyball at different in-game role	7
Differences in concussion knowledge and attitudes among American community rugby members	7
“There is a lot more potential” - practitioner perspectives on technology and data-driven talent identification, selection, and development in a German Bundesliga academy	6
Analysis of the competition programmes of elite and sub-elite swimmers: The influence of sex, stroke and race distance	6
Assessing perceived effectiveness of vocational coach education programme: Identifying COM-B based barriers and enablers of behaviour change	6
Concussion education for New Zealand high school rugby players: A mixed-method analysis of the impact on concussion knowledge, attitudes and reporting behaviours	6
Head acceleration events in academy rugby players: Impact of playing position on magnitude and incidence	6
Objectivity of match analysis in football: Testing the level of agreement between coaches’ interpretations of video data	6
Dealing with de-selection from youth international football: A case study of English Premier League academies	6
A framework for sporting success. Definitions and measures from research on sports featured in the 2014–2028 Olympic games: A scoping review	6
Feasibility and acceptability of a new shoulder-specific warm-up programme to prevent injuries in community youth rugby union as compared to the FIFA 11+	6
Curved sprinting in soccer: The influence of radius	6
Geometrical comparison between instrumented and non-instrumented mouthguards for rugby: A pilot study	6
Characteristics of leg motion that related to bent knee violation in race walking	6
The association between training load and physical development in professional male youth soccer players: a systematic review	6
Fear of failure and perception of the motivational climate under the coach pressure	6
Assessing criterion validity and test-retest reliability of a computer vision-based system for tracking player location in cricket	6
Relationship between training load and injury risk in elite young male football players: a systematic review	6
Flag football's Olympic ascent: Perspectives on growth, safety, and analytics	6
Born early, perform better: The impact of relative age on performance in Turkish youth basketball	6
Effect of the golden points and non-golden points on performance parameters in professional padel	6
Evaluating the impact of a digitally implemented subjective standard on professional rugby union player management decision-making	6
Effects of resistance training based on optimum power load and time under tension on mechanical variables and repetition number in the vertical jump performance of trained individuals	6
Key stakeholder perceptions of the implementation of the English Football Association's girls’ Emerging Talent Centre pathway	6
Application of social network analysis in football match analysis: A systematic review	6
Multidimensional analysis of players’ responses in basketball small-sided games: The impact of changing game rules	6
Analysis of the return in professional men's and women's padel	6
Dietary intake and training load in youth male soccer players during a microcycle: Analysis of intra-week variation and examination of associations between measures	6
Who sleeps worse and why? An analysis of sex, chrononutrition, anxiety, and sleep in adolescent athletes	6
Is it time for a more analytical approach? Suboptimal shot selection strategies in handball	6

A stochastic analysis of the 4 × 100 m relay	6
Formula for success: Using an accreditation to excel data literacy in early-career sport performance analysts	6
Rates of ground reaction force development are associated with running speed during sprint acceleration	6
Start smart: Biomechanical differences and training implications of three sprint start techniques	6
The association between gaze behavior and parabadminton serves accuracy	6
Immersive training in ice hockey: Evaluating the impact of virtual reality on engagement, enjoyment, and motivation	6
Comparisons and correlations between the anthropometric profile and physical performance of professional female and male soccer players: Individualities that should be considered in training	6
Analysing serves in para table tennis: Modelling advantage and clustering points	6
2019 Touch World Cup: An analysis of movement demands by half and gender	5
The golf and strength and conditioning coach interface: A model to optimise performance support for golfers	5
The effect of coach identity leadership on athletes’ experiential avoidance: the mediating role of athletes’ perceptions of coach-related critical attitudes and subjective vitality	5
The perceived influence of menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptives on training and performance: Comparison between football, handball, and orienteering	5
Influence of the constraints associated with the numerical game situations on the technical-tactical actions of U-11 football players in Spain: A commentary on Garcia-Angulo et al. (2024)	5
Coaching practices to develop underwater fly kick performance in swimming training	5
Looking good and moving well: Aesthetic labor imperatives in Les Mills instructors’ coaching experiences	5
Reliability and validity of the 90° push-up test in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Technical–tactical behaviour and rally structure in professional men's doubles pickleball: A combined descriptive, predictive, and sequential analysis	5
Throwing it out there: Grip on multidimensional performance characteristics of judoka – a systematic review	5
Inside the academy: Biological maturation practices in Spanish professional football	5
Scoring probability model based on service landing location and ranking points in men’s professional tennis matches	5
The evolution of blocking purpose: From reactive defense to coordinated scoring in women's volleyball across five Olympic games (2008–2024)	5
Not much “I” in “Team”: Content analysis of pregame speeches in American football	5
Enhancing the Athlete Biological Passport with blockchain: A secure and transparent anti-doping approach	5
Neuromuscular adaptations to different set configurations during a periodized power training block in elite junior Judokas	5
Rubrics on the pitch: Exploring the reliability of soccer scout's assessments	5
Enjoyment, performance and perceived exertion in differential versus repetitive basketball shooting practice	5
The cardiovascular response to international Olympic class windsurfing competition	5
Effects of coaches' authentic leadership on athletes' training competition satisfaction: The mediating roles of psychological ownership and athlete engagement	5
The importance of positional placement: Investigating the influence of different infield positions of floater players in small-sided soccer games	5
Decision-making assessments in youth team invasion game athletes: A systematic scoping review	5
Practices of strength and conditioning coaches across Chinese high-performance sports	5
Violinboxplot and enhanced radar plot as components of effective graphical dashboards: An educational example of sports analytics	5
Skateboarding's Olympic debut: A comparative analysis describing the men's and women's street competition	5
Between-day reliability of inertial measurement unit parameters during soccer-specific change of direction test	5
A global survey exploring tackle training knowledge, attitudes and practices of women's rugby union coaches	5
The perception of talent development environment in football: Scale development and psychometric testing	5
Assessing asymmetries and predicting performance in semiprofessional soccer players	5
Are you lookin’ at me? A mixed-methods case study to investigate the influence of coaches’ presence on performance testing outcomes in male academy rugby league players	5
Disciplinary strategies or reactive measures? An analysis of coach sanctions in elite Danish handball leagues	5
Effect of rebound jump improvements on reactive agility performance: Insights into joint mechanics during the takeoff phase	5
An integrated perspective of the demand–control and effort–reward imbalance models on burnout among sport coaches: The moderating role of over-commitment and coaching efficacy	5
The effect of within-day energy distribution on lean body mass and body fat in athletes: A systematic review	5
Physical testing and strength and conditioning practices differ between coaches working in academy and first team soccer	5
Recovery management in sport: Overview and outcomes of a nine-year multicenter research program	5
Cycling performance in competitive Dutch youth cyclists: More than just power?	5
Coaches’ perspectives on menstruation for female adolescent athletes	5
An examination of pre-activity and post-activity training practices of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and Division III baseball coaches	5
The kinematics of pace bowling associated with lumbar bone stress injuries: Disparities observed in elite male and female cricketers	5
Under pressure: Integrating machine learning to quantify clutch moments in American football	5
Swimming speed comparison between two distinct arm pulls during the butterfly swim stroke	4
Technical pace bowling coaching of adolescent cricketers: A survey on practices and barriers	4
Evaluating a behaviour change intervention to enhance athlete monitoring system engagement: Insights from elite sport	4
The indirect effects of transformational leadership in soccer programmes for socio-economically disadvantaged individuals: Need satisfaction as a mechanism towards personal development	4
A post-COVID-19 proposal to apply artificial saliva substitutes to polish the cricket ball	4
Internal load and wellness responses between consecutive collegiate female field hockey matches	4
Artificial intelligence coaches on the sidelines: Evaluating readability and quality of soccer training plans from six generative models	4
The influence of full leg-length compression tights during treadmill running at race speed	4
Multivariate analysis of performance indicators in elite women's futsal: A principal component approach to understanding game dynamics	4
Managing concussion in the real world: Stakeholder perspectives of New Zealand Rugby's concussion management pathway	4
Exploring agreement between golfers and coach in evaluating a putt	4
Comparison of the load-velocity relationship between bilateral and unilateral variants of the prone bench pull and leg press exercises	4
Impact ranking methodologies in limited-overs cricket: A systematic review of performance metrics	4
Description of collective behaviour in football according to the level of competence in representative tasks from positional data: Systematic review	4
Content validity of a new aquatic skill assessment tool: RAEE (refuse, assist, effective, efficient)	4
Exploring weight bias, fatphobia, and diversity training among collegiate athletic coaches	4
Measuring player pace of play in elite female association football	4
The identification and development of young talent in Spanish soccer academies: A 10-year multi-study follow-up	4
Tailoring support to the female athlete: A cross-sectional online survey to observe current practices in high performance sport	4
Practices and perceptions in hamstring training for injury risk mitigation: A survey-based mixed-methods analysis	4
Implementing biomechanical analyses for indigenous athlete development: Lessons from applying the Knowledge-to-Action framework with a remote First Nation hockey team	4
No-gi Brazilian jiu-jitsu: A Markovian analysis of elite-level combat dynamics	4
Determinant biomechanical variables for each sprint phase performance in track and field: A systematic review	4
Fitness testing and readiness practices among female football practitioners: A survey study	4
Competence Needs Satisfaction in elite junior tennis: Gender differences	4
Perfect shot reveal: Machine learning analysis of goal-scoring strategies in soccer	4
Post-game recovery strategies in elite female soccer: A cross-sectional survey of Spanish first and second division teams	4
Current perception and practice of athletics coaches about the modification of footstrike pattern in endurance runners: A survey	4
Practical application of a heuristic model for swim coaches to optimize training	4
All about momentum: Investigating high-pressure situations in the NBA through scoring probability	4
Activity demands and technical proficiency within the female Australian Rules Football talent pathway	4
The influence of compression tights on running economy varies by relative intensity	4
Physical collisions during elite rugby league match play and training: A stakeholder's perspective	4
Characterizations and practical applications of off-feet conditioning interval training in open skill sports	4
Exploring the perceptions of leadership in Hong Kong rugby	4
Assessing the effectiveness of the transformational coaching workshop using behavior change theory	4
Tracking aerobic and anaerobic fitness in table tennis players with various athletic levels: A two-year study	4
Anthropometric and morphological characteristics of elite male cricket bowlers and batters over time: A systematic review	4
Selected factors for triple jump preparation: A case study of an Olympic silver medalist	4
Group draw with unknown qualified teams: A lesson from the 2022 FIFA World Cup draw	4
Comparison of visual strategies between table tennis players of different skill levels in unpredictable rallies	4
Reliability and usefulness of a self-regulated 6-km submaximal ergometer training test set in elite rowers	3
Aligning online and remote coaching with the digital age: Novel perspectives for an emerging field of research and practice	3
The kinetic differences in knee joint loading under different foot support patterns in table tennis players	3
Comparative analysis of knee and ankle joint biomechanics during single-leg landing in bilateral lay-ups: Influence of hand dominance in basketball players	3
Coaching for psychological safety: A socio-ecological scoping review of antecedents in competitive sport	3