Science and Medicine in Football

Papers
(The H4-Index of Science and Medicine in Football is 16. 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
Research on women’s football: a scoping review50
Injuries are negatively associated with player progression in an elite football academy36
Evolution of physical and technical parameters in the Spanish LaLiga 2012-201929
Linear advancing actions followed by deceleration and turn are the most common movements preceding goals in male professional soccer28
Dealing with small samples in football research27
Acceleration and deceleration demands during training sessions in football: a systematic review27
One of these things is not like the other: time to differentiate between relative age and biological maturity selection biases in soccer?26
Detraining of specific neuromuscular qualities in elite footballers during COVID-19 quarantine25
The psychological impact of COVID-19 infection on athletes: example of professional male football players22
Carbohydrate fear, skinfold targets and body image issues: a qualitative analysis of player and stakeholder perceptions of the nutrition culture within elite female soccer21
Do elite soccer players cover less distance when their team spent more time in possession of the ball?19
An audit of hormonal contraceptive use in Women’s Super League soccer players; implications on symptomology19
A league-wide investigation into variability of rugby league match running from 322 Super League games18
An analysis of Bundesliga matches before and after social distancing by COVID-1917
The effect of bio-banding on physical and psychological indicators of talent identification in academy soccer players16
Change of direction frequency off the ball: new perspectives in elite youth soccer16
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