OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A special issue only for one virus: has the football research community responded well to the pandemic?	49
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment	45
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study	40
Determining age-specific velocity thresholds for elite youth female soccer players	39
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football	37
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice	33
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players	31
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™	26
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives	25
Estimating is not measuring: the use of non-invasive estimations of somatic maturity in youth football	23
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players	22
Are there differences in the attention of elite football players concerning playing positions?	22
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick	17
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?	16
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players	16
Monitoring the beautiful adapted game: a 3-year prospective surveillance study of injuries in elite English Para football	16
The effectiveness of 3D multiple object tracking training on decision-making in soccer	16
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football	16
The psychological impact of COVID-19 infection on athletes: example of professional male football players	16
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play	15
The development of metrics for measuring the level of symmetry in team formation and ball movement flow, and their association with performance	15
Collective behaviour in high and low-level youth soccer teams	15
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league	14
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football	14
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs	14

The relative age effect in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA): a mixed methods approach	13
Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations	13
One of these things is not like the other: time to differentiate between relative age and biological maturity selection biases in soccer?	13
Tactical analysis of individual and team behaviour in professional Australian Football	12
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review	12
Lessons from establishing a football-specific registry of anterior cruciate ligament injuries - data collection and first epidemiological data	12
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia	12
Distinguishing skill from technique in football	12
The effect of knee-flexion angle on peak force and muscle activation during isometric knee-flexor strength testing using the Nordbord device in soccer players	11
The effect of bio-banding on technical and tactical indicators of talent identification in academy soccer players	11
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis	11
Low sleep quality and morningness-eveningness scale score may impair ball placement but not kicking velocity in youth academy soccer players	10
Effects of concussion on technical performance in professional Australian football	10
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes	10
Sport-related concussion knowledge and attitudes of staff working in English elite women’s football: a survey-based study	10
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 2022	10
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment	10
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players	10
Additional time error in association football is associated with interruption type and goal difference	9
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 nutritionist	9
Discriminative validity of summarized hip and knee angular accelerations for lower extremity training load quantification in male soccer players during a standardised training drill	9
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study	9
Match activity profile and heart rate responses of top-level soccer referees during Brazilian national first and second division and regional championships	9
Do environmental temperatures and altitudes affect physical outputs of elite football athletes in match conditions? A systematic review of the ‘real world’ studies	9
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 ^TM	9
A preliminary study of the reliability of soccer skill tests within a modified soccer match simulation protocol	8
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?	8
The variability of physical match demands in elite women’s football	8
Quantity and quality of sleep in young players of a professional football club	8
The relative age effect in under-17, under-20, and adult elite female soccer players	8
‘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 s	8
Technical involvements and pressure applied influence movement demands in elite Australian Football Match-play	7
Soccer coaches vs. sport science and medicine staff: who can more accurately predict the skeletal age of high-level youth soccer players?	7
Factors associated with cooperative network connectedness in a professional Australian football small-sided game	7