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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A special issue only for one virus: has the football research community responded well to the pandemic?64
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players55
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football53
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment36
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study29
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives22
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice22
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick21
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players21
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
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?20
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football19
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support18
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players17
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play17
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league17
Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations16
The relative age effect in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA): a mixed methods approach16
Injury surveillance in The FA Walking Football Cup 202416
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review16
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs16
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia15
Distinguishing skill from technique in football15
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis14
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 study13
Discriminative validity of summarized hip and knee angular accelerations for lower extremity training load quantification in male soccer players during a standardised training drill13
The effect of bio-banding on technical and tactical indicators of talent identification in academy soccer players13
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment13
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
Low sleep quality and morningness-eveningness scale score may impair ball placement but not kicking velocity in youth academy soccer players12
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes12
Effects of concussion on technical performance in professional Australian football12
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 202212
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players12
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
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
The relative age effect in under-17, under-20, and adult elite female soccer players10
Injuries and risk factors in men’s beach soccer: Japanese national championships 2013–202310
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 nutritionist10
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study9
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?9
Additional time error in association football is associated with interruption type and goal difference9
Correction8
The variability of physical match demands in elite women’s football8
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
‘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
Acute pre- and post-competitive soccer match-play changes in neuromuscular factors, physical performance, and muscle response in youth male players7
Broadcast analytics – an evaluation of video-based tracking systems with constrained player visibility7
Exploring psychosocial risk factors for dropout in adolescent female soccer7
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in football – a “Keeping SCORE” approach to judicious use7
Incidence of concussion and associated risk factors in collegiate soccer: findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE consortium7
Heading in football: a systematic review of descriptors, definitions, and reporting methods used in heading incidence studies7
Health problems in top-level female football players: a four-season prospective study in the Finnish top football league7
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on soccer positional and physical demands in the Spanish La Liga7
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