| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects | Lancet, The | 2012 | 4,021 |
| 2 | Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women | Lancet, The | 2016 | 1,783 |
| 3 | Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children: a cross-sectional study (The European Youth Heart Study) | Lancet, The | 2006 | 1,188 |
| 4 | Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to Assess Physical Activity and Other Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Practical Considerations | Sports Medicine | 2017 | 1,126 |
| 5 | Mechanisms of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Basketball | American Journal of Sports Medicine | 2007 | 923 |
| 6 | Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2019 | 856 |
| 7 | Simple decision rules can reduce reinjury risk by 84% after ACL reconstruction: the Delaware-Oslo ACL cohort study | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2016 | 798 |
| 8 | Mechanisms for Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries | American Journal of Sports Medicine | 2010 | 666 |
| 9 | Age Group Comparability of Raw Accelerometer Output from Wrist- and Hip-Worn Monitors | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2014 | 659 |
| 10 | Comprehensive warm-up programme to prevent injuries in young female footballers: cluster randomised controlled trial | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2008 | 642 |
| 11 | How much is too much? (Part 1) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of injury | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2016 | 625 |
| 12 | Separating Movement and Gravity Components in an Acceleration Signal and Implications for the Assessment of Human Daily Physical Activity | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 577 |
| 13 | Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in youth: the International children’s accelerometry database (ICAD) | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | 2015 | 556 |
| 14 | Development and validation of a new method for the registration of overuse injuries in sports injury epidemiology: the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre (OSTRC) Overuse Injury Questionnaire | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2013 | 540 |
| 15 | International Olympic Committee consensus statement on youth athletic development | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2015 | 537 |
| 16 | Sports injuries and illnesses during the London Summer Olympic Games 2012 | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2013 | 522 |
| 17 | Comparison of Self-reported versus Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2014 | 520 |
| 18 | A systematic review of reliability and objective criterion-related validity of physical activity questionnaires | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | 2012 | 469 |
| 19 | How much is too much? (Part 2) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of illness | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2016 | 459 |
| 20 | Prevention of hamstring strains in elite soccer: an intervention study | Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports | 2008 | 437 |
| 21 | The effects of acute and chronic exercise on PGC‐1α, irisin and browning of subcutaneous adipose tissue in humans | FEBS Journal | 2014 | 431 |
| 22 | International Olympic Committee consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (including STROBE Extension for Sport Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS)) | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2020 | 411 |
| 23 | No injuries, but plenty of pain? On the methodology for recording overuse symptoms in sports | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2009 | 403 |
| 24 | Neighborhood Environments and Physical Activity Among Adults in 11 Countries | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2009 | 389 |
| 25 | Knee Function and Prevalence of Knee Osteoarthritis after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction | American Journal of Sports Medicine | 2010 | 371 |
| 26 | Effect of low pass filtering on joint moments from inverse dynamics: Implications for injury prevention | Journal of Biomechanics | 2012 | 363 |
| 27 | Sitting Time, Physical Activity, and Risk of Mortality in Adults | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2019 | 349 |
| 28 | Leucocytes, cytokines and satellite cells: what role do they play in muscle damage and regeneration following eccentric exercise? | Exercise Immunology Review | 2012 | 335 |
| 29 | The effects of physical activity and exercise on brain‐derived neurotrophic factor in healthy humans: A review | Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports | 2014 | 333 |
| 30 | Sport and exercise as contributors to the health of nations | Lancet, The | 2012 | 318 |
| 31 | Preventing injuries in female youth football – a cluster‐randomized controlled trial | Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports | 2008 | 310 |
| 32 | Three distinct mechanisms predominate in non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injuries in male professional football players: a systematic video analysis of 39 cases | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2015 | 299 |
| 33 | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Consensus Statement on periodic health evaluation of elite athletes March 2009 | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2009 | 296 |
| 34 | The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center questionnaire on health problems: a new approach to prospective monitoring of illness and injury in elite athletes | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2014 | 291 |
| 35 | Eating disorders in athletes: Overview of prevalence, risk factors and recommendations for prevention and treatment | European Journal of Sport Science | 2013 | 288 |
| 36 | Sports injury and illness incidence in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Summer Games: A prospective study of 11274 athletes from 207 countries | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2017 | 286 |
| 37 | GDF15 Provides an Endocrine Signal of Nutritional Stress in Mice and Humans | Cell Metabolism | 2019 | 286 |
| 38 | The Scandinavian ACL registries 2004–2007: baseline epidemiology | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | 2009 | 282 |
| 39 | International Olympic Committee consensus statement: harassment and abuse (non-accidental violence) in sport | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2016 | 282 |
| 40 | Sports injuries and illnesses during the Winter Olympic Games 2010 | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2010 | 278 |
| 41 | Evidence against a Beneficial Effect of Irisin in Humans | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 261 |
| 42 | Compliance with a comprehensive warm-up programme to prevent injuries in youth football | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2010 | 252 |
| 43 | Single-Legged Hop Tests as Predictors of Self-Reported Knee Function After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction | American Journal of Sports Medicine | 2012 | 252 |
| 44 | Reduced glenohumeral rotation, external rotation weakness and scapular dyskinesis are risk factors for shoulder injuries among elite male handball players: a prospective cohort study | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2014 | 251 |
| 45 | Neuromuscular Fatigue and Recovery in Elite Female Soccer | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2008 | 242 |
| 46 | End Criteria for Reaching Maximal Oxygen Uptake Must Be Strict and Adjusted to Sex and Age: A Cross-Sectional Study | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 242 |
| 47 | IOC consensus paper on the use of platelet-rich plasma in sports medicine | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2010 | 237 |
| 48 | Daily energy expenditure through the human life course | Science | 2021 | 234 |
| 49 | An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA)/International Continence Society (ICS) joint report on the terminology for the conservative and nonpharmacological management of female pelvic floor dysfunction | International Urogynecology Journal | 2017 | 233 |
| 50 | Helmet Use and Risk of Head Injuries in Alpine Skiers and Snowboarders | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2006 | 232 |
