Science and Medicine in Football

Papers
(The TQCC of Science and Medicine in Football is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment62
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice42
Improving longitudinal performance assessment of youth soccer players: 10 m sprint percentile curves adapted to biological age31
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study28
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football27
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players26
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players25
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives24
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™23
Development of team-based and individualised speed zone thresholds for elite club-level women’s soccer23
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick23
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football22
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football21
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players19
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league19
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs18
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support18
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play18
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 202416
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review16
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia15
The relative age effect in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA): a mixed methods approach15
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis15
Distinguishing skill from technique in football14
Agreement between perceived and objective sleep duration in highly trained young male soccer players14
The effect of knee-flexion angle on peak force and muscle activation during isometric knee-flexor strength testing using the Nordbord device in soccer players13
Sport-related concussion knowledge and attitudes of staff working in English elite women’s football: a survey-based study13
Discriminative validity of summarized hip and knee angular accelerations for lower extremity training load quantification in male soccer players during a standardised training drill12
Concurrent validation of foot-mounted inertial measurement units for quantifying Australian Rules football kicking12
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment11
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes11
Injuries and risk factors in men’s beach soccer: Japanese national championships 2013–202311
Effects of concussion on technical performance in professional Australian football11
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 202211
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players11
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 TM10
Match activity profile and heart rate responses of top-level soccer referees during Brazilian national first and second division and regional championships9
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study9
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 nutritionist9
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?9
Crossing time zones and touchlines: an observational survey of practitioner perceptions on travel in elite North American soccer9
The relative age effect in under-17, under-20, and adult elite female soccer players9
How to mitigate injury risk after return-to-play in elite football? Expert judgement meets data analytics9
‘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 s8
Soccer coaches vs. sport science and medicine staff: who can more accurately predict the skeletal age of high-level youth soccer players?8
Medical care delivery in international football: perceived best practice and challenges. An interview-based study of national team clinicians8
Additional time error in association football is associated with interruption type and goal difference8
Correction8
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