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Science and Medicine in Football
H-index 17

Science and Medicine in Football

2473-3938

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsmf20

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 828 14 22 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 42
Documents by Best Scientists*: 64
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 33
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.691
Impact Factor: 3.5

Top Publications

  • A longitudinal investigation into the relative age effect in an English professional football club: exploring the ‘underdog hypothesis’

    Adam L. Kelly;Mark R. Wilson;Lewis A. Gough;Harry Knapman

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Decision-making practice during coaching sessions in elite youth football across European countries

    André Roca;Paul R. Ford

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • One of these things is not like the other: Time to differentiate between relative age and biological maturity selection biases in soccer?

    Chris Towlson;Calum MacMaster;James Parr;Sean Cumming

    (2021)
    40 Citations
  • External load differences between elite youth and professional football players: ready for take-off?

    Kobe C. Houtmeyers;Arne Jaspers;Michel S. Brink;Jos Vanrenterghem

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on soccer positional and physical demands in the Spanish La Liga

    (2022)
    25 Citations
  • Resilience as a protective factor for well-being and emotional stability in elite-level football players during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Esben Elholm Madsen;Esben Elholm Madsen;Peter Krustrup;Carsten Hvid Larsen;Anne-Marie Elbe

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • Exploring the role of socioeconomic status and psychological characteristics on talent development in an English soccer academy

    (2023)
    11 Citations
  • Mental health and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown: A survey case report of high-level male and female players of an Italian Serie A football club

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • Collective behaviour in high and low-level youth soccer

    Jade O’Brien-Smith;Job Fransen;William B. Sheehan;Matthieu Lenoir

    (2021)
    6 Citations
  • The development of metrics for measuring the level of symmetry in team formation and ball movement flow, and their association with performance

    Eyal Eliakim;Elia Morgulev;Elia Morgulev;Elia Morgulev;Ronnie Lidor;Orin Munk

    (2021)
    5 Citations

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