Science and Medicine in Football

Papers
(The TQCC of Science and Medicine in Football is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football69
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment58
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study55
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice36
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players23
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players22
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives22
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football21
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™21
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick21
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?21
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support20
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play20
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players20
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football19
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league18
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs18
Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations17
Injury surveillance in The FA Walking Football Cup 202417
The relative age effect in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA): a mixed methods approach16
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia16
Agreement between perceived and objective sleep duration in highly trained young male soccer players15
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis15
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review15
Distinguishing skill from technique in football15
Concurrent validation of foot-mounted inertial measurement units for quantifying Australian Rules football kicking14
Sport-related concussion knowledge and attitudes of staff working in English elite women’s football: a survey-based study14
The effect of knee-flexion angle on peak force and muscle activation during isometric knee-flexor strength testing using the Nordbord device in soccer players14
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment13
Effects of concussion on technical performance in professional Australian football12
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players12
Discriminative validity of summarized hip and knee angular accelerations for lower extremity training load quantification in male soccer players during a standardised training drill12
Broadening our understanding of injury mechanisms to include at-risk situations: an overview of potential injuries at the FIFA men’s World Cup Qatar 2022 TM11
Match activity profile and heart rate responses of top-level soccer referees during Brazilian national first and second division and regional championships11
Do environmental temperatures and altitudes affect physical outputs of elite football athletes in match conditions? A systematic review of the ‘real world’ studies11
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes11
Where do you go when your periods go?: A case-study examining secondary amenorrhea in a professional internationally-capped female soccer player through the lens of the sport nutritionist11
Injuries and risk factors in men’s beach soccer: Japanese national championships 2013–202311
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 202211
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?10
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study10
The relative age effect in under-17, under-20, and adult elite female soccer players10
Soccer coaches vs. sport science and medicine staff: who can more accurately predict the skeletal age of high-level youth soccer players?9
The variability of physical match demands in elite women’s football9
Additional time error in association football is associated with interruption type and goal difference9
‘After they see what you have, they contact you’: a qualitative study of national team football players’, coaches’ and clinicians’ experiences in engaging with a context-specific injury surveillance s9
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on soccer positional and physical demands in the Spanish La Liga8
Correction8
Medical care delivery in international football: perceived best practice and challenges. An interview-based study of national team clinicians8
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in football – a “Keeping SCORE” approach to judicious use7
Heading in football: a systematic review of descriptors, definitions, and reporting methods used in heading incidence studies7
Individual and situational factors affecting the movement characteristics and internal responses to Touch match-play during an international tournament7
Acute pre- and post-competitive soccer match-play changes in neuromuscular factors, physical performance, and muscle response in youth male players7
Health problems in top-level female football players: a four-season prospective study in the Finnish top football league7
Analysing the impact of the 50:22 kick law changes in South African rugby tournaments between 2021 and 20227
Broadcast analytics – an evaluation of video-based tracking systems with constrained player visibility7
Exploring psychosocial risk factors for dropout in adolescent female soccer7
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 dam7
Experienced academy soccer coaches’ perceptions of evaluating talented youth soccer players’ skilfulness in small-sided games: a mixed-methods study7
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