Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health

Papers
(The H4-Index of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health is 13. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology146
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union30
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes26
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace18
Identities and moralities in social networks. A digital ethnography of running in contemporary society18
‘At least you got to see people when you went out for a walk’: older adults’ lived, embodied experiences during COVID-19 times in the United Kingdom18
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences16
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story16
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education16
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV15
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence15
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach14
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete14
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain13
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running13
Correction13
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk13
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport13
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies13
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