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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 241 40 78 14
Medicine 1435 78 101 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 276
Documents by Best Scientists*: 346
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 28
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.864
Impact Factor: 2.6

Top Publications

  • Physical Activity During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Prevention of a Decline in Metabolic and Immunological Functions

    Johan Jakobsson;Christer Malm;Maria Furberg;Ulf Ekelund

    (2020)
    184 Citations
  • Current evidence shows no influence of women's menstrual cycle phase on acute strength performance or adaptations to resistance exercise training

    (2023)
    91 Citations
  • Perturbation-based balance training: Principles, mechanisms and implementation in clinical practice

    (2022)
    90 Citations
  • Case Report: Return to Sport Following the COVID-19 Lockdown and Its Impact on Injury Rates in the German Soccer League

    Dhruv R. Seshadri;Mitchell L. Thom;Ethan R. Harlow;Colin K. Drummond

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Assessing the Accuracy of Popular Commercial Technologies That Measure Resting Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability

    Jason D. Stone;Hana K. Ulman;Kaylee Tran;Kaylee Tran;Andrew G. Thompson

    (2021)
    67 Citations
  • Wearable Technology and Analytics as a Complementary Toolkit to Optimize Workload and to Reduce Injury Burden.

    Dhruv R. Seshadri;Mitchell L. Thom;Ethan R. Harlow;Tim J. Gabbett

    (2021)
    54 Citations
  • The Physical Activity and Sport Participation Framework-A Policy Model Toward Being Physically Active Across the Lifespan.

    Hans Westerbeek;Rochelle Eime;Rochelle Eime

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Five-Year Changes in Community-Level Sport Participation, and the Role of Gender Strategies.

    Rochelle Eime;Melanie Charity;Melanie Charity;Jack Harvey;Jack Harvey;Hans Westerbeek

    (2021)
    45 Citations
  • Participating in extracurricular activities and school sports during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with child and youth mental health

    (2022)
    37 Citations

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