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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football	65
Reliability of spatial-temporal metrics used to assess collective behaviours in football: an in-silico experiment	55
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study	54
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice	36
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players	33
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives	23
The incidence and characteristics of heading in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup™	22
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players	22
Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?	22
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football	21
An investigation into the effect of audiences on the soccer penalty kick	21
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support	21
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play	20
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs	20
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players	20
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football	18
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league	18
Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations	18
Injury surveillance in The FA Walking Football Cup 2024	18
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review	17
The relative age effect in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA): a mixed methods approach	17
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis	16
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia	16
Distinguishing skill from technique in football	16
The effect of bio-banding on technical and tactical indicators of talent identification in academy soccer players	15

Agreement between perceived and objective sleep duration in highly trained young male soccer players	15
Sport-related concussion knowledge and attitudes of staff working in English elite women’s football: a survey-based study	15
Concurrent validation of foot-mounted inertial measurement units for quantifying Australian Rules football kicking	15
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	14
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment	14
Discriminative validity of summarized hip and knee angular accelerations for lower extremity training load quantification in male soccer players during a standardised training drill	13
Effects of concussion on technical performance in professional Australian football	12
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players	12
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes	12
Low sleep quality and morningness-eveningness scale score may impair ball placement but not kicking velocity in youth academy soccer players	12
Injuries and risk factors in men’s beach soccer: Japanese national championships 2013–2023	11
Match activity profile and heart rate responses of top-level soccer referees during Brazilian national first and second division and regional championships	11
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	11
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 2022	11
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	11
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?	10
The relative age effect in under-17, under-20, and adult elite female soccer players	10
Do environmental temperatures and altitudes affect physical outputs of elite football athletes in match conditions? A systematic review of the ‘real world’ studies	10
The variability of physical match demands in elite women’s football	10
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study	9
‘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	9
Additional time error in association football is associated with interruption type and goal difference	9
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on soccer positional and physical demands in the Spanish La Liga	8
Medical care delivery in international football: perceived best practice and challenges. An interview-based study of national team clinicians	8
Heading in football: a systematic review of descriptors, definitions, and reporting methods used in heading incidence studies	8
Soccer coaches vs. sport science and medicine staff: who can more accurately predict the skeletal age of high-level youth soccer players?	8
Correction	8
Broadcast analytics – an evaluation of video-based tracking systems with constrained player visibility	7
Health problems in top-level female football players: a four-season prospective study in the Finnish top football league	7
Analysing the impact of the 50:22 kick law changes in South African rugby tournaments between 2021 and 2022	7
Exploring psychosocial risk factors for dropout in adolescent female soccer	7
Acute pre- and post-competitive soccer match-play changes in neuromuscular factors, physical performance, and muscle response in youth male players	7
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 dam	7
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in football – a “Keeping SCORE” approach to judicious use	7