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Citations
23092
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1237
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Duarte Araújo is affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal and has a research focus primarily within the field of psychology. Their work encompasses several subfields including orthopedics and sports medicine, developmental and educational psychology, economics and econometrics, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research interests concentrate on topics such as sports performance and training, sport psychology and performance, sports analytics and performance, physical education and pedagogy, action observation and synchronization, motivation and self-concept in sports, and motor control and adaptation.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Duarte Araújo illustrate their research output:

  • The role of domain-specific and domain-general cognitive functions and skills in sports performance: A meta-analysis, 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • Sport Practitioners as Sport Ecology Designers: How Ecological Dynamics Has Progressively Changed Perceptions of Skill "Acquisition" in the Sporting Habitat, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Match Analysis in Team Ball Sports: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, 2022, Sports Medicine - Open
  • Learning to coach: An ecological dynamics perspective, 2022, International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
  • Benefits to Performance and Well-Being of Nature-Based Exercise: A Critical Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology

Duarte Araújo frequently publishes in the following journals and venues:

  • Sports Medicine - Open
  • International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
  • International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Keith Davids, Carl T. Woods, Henrique Brito, Daniel Carrilho, and Rui J. Lopes.

Duarte Araújo has also contributed to academic book literature, notably publishing with Human Kinetics. One of the books credited to them is titled Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The ecological dynamics of decision making in sport

    Duarte Araújo;Keith Davids;Robert Hristovski

  • Movement systems as dynamical systems : The functional role of variability and its implications for sports medicine

    Keith W. Davids;Paul Glazier;Duarte Araujo;Roger Bartlett

  • Representative Learning Design and Functionality of Research and Practice in Sport

    Ross A. Pinder;Keith Davids;Ian Renshaw;Duarte Araújo

  • Affordances can invite behavior: Reconsidering the relationship between affordances and agency

    Rob Withagen;Harjo J. de Poel;Duarte Araujo;Gert-Jan Pepping

  • How small-sided and conditioned games enhance acquisition of movement and decision-making skills.

    Keith Davids;Duarte Araújo;Vanda Correia;Luís Vilar

  • The Role of Nonlinear Pedagogy in Physical Education

    Jia Yi Chow;Keith Davids;Chris Button;Rick Shuttleworth

  • Talent Identification and Development in Male Football: A Systematic Review

    Hugo Sarmento;Hugo Sarmento;M. Teresa Anguera;Antonino Pereira;Duarte Araújo

  • Sports Teams as Superorganisms

    Ricardo Duarte;Duarte Araújo;Vanda Correia;Keith Davids

  • The role of ecological dynamics in analysing performance in team sports

    Luís Vilar;Duarte Araújo;Keith Davids;Chris Button

  • Nonlinear pedagogy: Learning design for self-organizing neurobiological systems

    Jia Yi Chow;Keith Davids;Robert Hristovski;Duarte Araújo

  • Emergence of sport skills under constraints

    Duarte Araujo;Keith Davids;Simon J Bennett;Chris Button

  • Networks as a novel tool for studying team ball sports as complex social systems

    Pedro Passos;Keith Davids;Duarte Araujo;N. Paz

  • Information-governing dynamics of attacker–defender interactions in youth rugby union

    Pedro Passos;Duarte Araújo;Keith Davids;Luis Gouveia

  • An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Skill Acquisition: Implications for Development of Talent in Sport

    Keith Davids;Duarte Araujo;Luis Vilar;Ian Renshaw

  • Performance analysis in team sports: advances from an ecological dynamics approach

    Bruno Travassos;Keith Davids;Duarte Araújo;T. Pedro Esteves

  • Ecological cognition: expert decision-making behaviour in sport

    Duarte Araújo;Robert Hristovski;Ludovic Seifert;João Carvalho

  • Nonlinear pedagogy: a constraints-led framework for understanding emergence of game play and movement skills.

    Jia Yi Chow;Keith W. Davids;Chris Button;Rick Shuttleworth

  • Shared knowledge or shared affordances? Insights from an ecological dynamics approach to team coordination in sports.

    Pedro Silva;Júlio Garganta;Duarte Araújo;Keith Davids

  • Applications of Dynamical Systems Theory to Football

    Thomas Reilly;Jan Cabri;Duarte Araújo

  • Movement Models from Sports Provide Representative Task Constraints for Studying Adaptive Behavior in Human Movement Systems

    Keith Davids;Chris Button;Duarte Araújo;Ian Renshaw

  • Ecological Validity, Representative Design, and Correspondence Between Experimental Task Constraints and Behavioral Setting: Comment on Rogers, Kadar, and Costall (2005)

    Duarte Araújo;Keith Davids;Pedro Passos

  • Ecological approaches to cognition and action in sport and exercise: Ask not only what you do, but where you do it

    Duarte Araujo;Keith W. Davids

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Davids
Keith Davids Sheffield Hallam University
Markus Raab
Markus Raab German Sport University Cologne
Michael Bar-Eli
Michael Bar-Eli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael J. Richardson
Michael J. Richardson Macquarie University
John van der Kamp
John van der Kamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Yannis Theodorakis
Yannis Theodorakis University Of Thessaly
Werner Helsen
Werner Helsen KU Leuven
Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis
Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis University Of Thessaly
Athanasios Papaioannou
Athanasios Papaioannou University Of Thessaly
J. A. Scott Kelso
J. A. Scott Kelso Florida Atlantic University

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