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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
World Congress on Science and Soccer 2025 (WCSS 2025): encourage progress, enhance practice39
Perspectives of the barriers and enablers to nutritional adherence in professional male academy football players33
Exploring decision-making practices during coaching sessions in grassroots youth soccer: a mixed-methods study29
Improving longitudinal performance assessment of youth soccer players: 10 m sprint percentile curves adapted to biological age26
A formative investigation assessing menstrual health literacy in professional women’s football25
Development of team-based and individualised speed zone thresholds for elite club-level women’s soccer24
Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players24
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 kick20
Load monitoring, strength training, and recovery in futsal: Practitioners’ perspectives20
Injury characteristics and cost of ankle sprains in amateur soccer (football): a national analysis involving 3 years of Australian insurance data19
A systematic review of concussion education, knowledge, and attitudes in football18
Optimising classification in sport: a replication study using physical and technical-tactical performance indicators to classify competitive levels in rugby league match-play17
Driving the future of health and performance in Women’s football16
Head acceleration events are associated with tackler head contact and running speed during tackling in junior Australian football16
Perspectives on data analytics for gaining a competitive advantage in football: harnessing data for decision support15
The associations of transformational leadership and team cohesion on the psychological health of young football players through basic psychological needs15
#ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women’s premier league15
Sleep duration is associated with overnight changes in perceived fatigue in elite women soccer players15
The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia14
Injury surveillance in The FA Walking Football Cup 202413
Agreement between perceived and objective sleep duration in highly trained young male soccer players13
Need a break? The locomotor and tackle pacing profile and loads of women’s rugby league match-play following various between-match turnaround durations13
Distinguishing skill from technique in football13
Psychology research in women’s soccer: a scoping review13
The emergence of critical incidents in Rugby Union matches using Markov chain analysis13
Concurrent validation of foot-mounted inertial measurement units for quantifying Australian Rules football kicking12
The effect of knee-flexion angle on peak force and muscle activation during isometric knee-flexor strength testing using the Nordbord device in soccer players12
Sport-related concussion knowledge and attitudes of staff working in English elite women’s football: a survey-based study12
Discriminative validity of summarized hip and knee angular accelerations for lower extremity training load quantification in male soccer players during a standardised training drill11
Seasonal health tracking of Australian Football League Women’s athletes11
Development of novel calibration model(s) to predict whole-body density in professional football players11
Survey of the current practices of German football academies towards biological maturation assessment11
Injuries and risk factors in men’s beach soccer: Japanese national championships 2013–202310
Crossing time zones and touchlines: an observational survey of practitioner perceptions on travel in elite North American soccer10
Time-loss injuries and illnesses at the FIFA world cup Qatar 202210
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
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 s9
Maximum speed exposures in Australian rules football: do methods matter?9
The relative age effect in under-17, under-20, and adult elite female soccer players9
Sport-related concussion knowledge and attitudes among football players and coaches in Ghana and medical professionals in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study9
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 TM9
FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study9
Correction8
A pragmatic, parallel-arm, randomised trial on the effects of two repeated-sprint training protocols on fitness outcomes in semi-professional male soccer players: preliminary report8
Additional time error in association football is associated with interruption type and goal difference8
Medical care delivery in international football: perceived best practice and challenges. An interview-based study of national team clinicians8
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