Science and Medicine in Football

Papers
(The H4-Index of Science and Medicine in Football is 14. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
A special issue only for one virus: has the football research community responded well to the pandemic?42
The effects of travel on performance: a 13-year analysis of the National Rugby League (NRL) competition34
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football33
Single leg drop jump is affected by physical capacities in male soccer players following ACL reconstruction29
Individually randomized trial mislabeled as a cluster-randomized trial. Comment on: “Effectiveness of wearable technology to optimize youth soccer players’ off-training behaviour and training response27
Mortality of Spanish soccer referees and coaches: a retrospective cohort study26
Relative age and biological maturity-related selection biases in male youth soccer across different competitive levels within a national association22
Acute locomotor, heart rate and neuromuscular responses to added wearable resistance during soccer-specific training21
Quantification of internal and external training load during a training camp in senior international female footballers19
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment18
The introduction of the six-again rule has increased acceleration intensity across all positions in the National Rugby League competition17
Examining the mental health status of referees in the turkish professional football league15
Decrease in aerial challenges after revision of goal kick rules in Japan Professional Soccer League: explorative study of the possibility of a risk reduction for head injury, concussion, and brain dam15
Determining age-specific velocity thresholds for elite youth female soccer players14
What contextual factors influence pain management decision making concerning player availability in professional men’s football? A qualitative analysis of practitioner perceptions14
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