| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The COVID-19 pandemic and physical activity | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 354 |
| 2 | Physical activity, exercise, and chronic diseases: A brief review | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2019 | 343 |
| 3 | Inflammation, physical activity, and chronic disease: An evolutionary perspective | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 44 |
| 4 | 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 42 |
| 5 | COVID-19: A pandemic that threatens physical and mental health by promoting physical inactivity | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 32 |
| 6 | High intensity interval training and molecular adaptive response of skeletal muscle | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2019 | 28 |
| 7 | Development and progression of cancer cachexia: Perspectives from bench to bedside | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 28 |
| 8 | High-altitude illnesses: Old stories and new insights into the pathophysiology, treatment and prevention | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 22 |
| 9 | Effects of COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine period on physical activity and dietary habits of college-aged students | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 22 |
| 10 | Physical exercise and COVID-19 pandemic in PubMed: Two months of dynamics and one year of original scientific production | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 21 |
| 11 | Frailty: Past, present, and future? | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 18 |
| 12 | Exercise training modulates adipokine dysregulations in metabolic syndrome | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2022 | 16 |
| 13 | The role of exercise in rehabilitation of discharged COVID-19 patients | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 14 |
| 14 | Effect of classroom-based physical activity interventions on attention and on-task behavior in schoolchildren: A systematic review | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 14 |
| 15 | Vibration-Damping technology in tennis racquets: Effects on vibration transfer to the arm, muscle fatigue and tennis performance | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2019 | 13 |
| 16 | Reversal of age-associated frailty by controlled physical exercise: The pre-clinical and clinical evidences | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2019 | 13 |
| 17 | Exercise is mitochondrial medicine for muscle | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2019 | 13 |
| 18 | Low back pain and golf: A review of biomechanical risk factors | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 13 |
| 19 | Hatha yoga training improves standing balance but not gait in Parkinson's disease | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 12 |
| 20 | Bee honey and exercise for improving physical performance, reducing fatigue, and promoting an active lifestyle during COVID-19 | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 12 |
| 21 | SARS-CoV-2 infection and red blood cells: Implications for long term symptoms during exercise | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 11 |
| 22 | Exercise as a therapy for cancer-induced muscle wasting | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 10 |
| 23 | Associations between sociodemographic factors and physical activity and sedentary behaviors in adults with chronic diseases during COVID-19 pandemic | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 9 |
| 24 | High intensity resistance training as intervention method to knee osteoarthritis | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 9 |
| 25 | Glycemic variability: Importance, relationship with physical activity, and the influence of exercise | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 9 |
| 26 | Effects of Taijiquan and Qigong exercises on depression and anxiety levels in patients with substance use disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2022 | 9 |
| 27 | Myocarditis in athletes after COVID-19 infection: The heart is not the only place to screen | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 8 |
| 28 | Changes in markers of body composition of professional male soccer players during pre-season | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 8 |
| 29 | Effects of exercise and dietary interventions on serum metabolites in men with insomnia symptoms: A 6-month randomized controlled trial | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 8 |
| 30 | Associations between extracurricular activity participation and health-related variables in underrepresented children | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 8 |
| 31 | Anthropometrics, flexibility and training history as determinants for bicycle configuration | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 8 |
| 32 | Effects of body mass and sex on kinematics and kinetics of the lower extremity during stair ascent and descent in older adults | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 8 |
| 33 | Skeletal muscle mechanisms contributing to improved glycemic control following intense interval exercise and training | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2023 | 8 |
| 34 | Effects of meditation and mind-body exercise on brain-derived neurotrophic factor: A literature review of human experimental studies | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 7 |
| 35 | Assessment of aerobic exercise capacity in obesity, which expression of oxygen uptake is the best? | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 7 |
| 36 | The effect of two COVID-19 lockdowns on physical activity of school-age children | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2022 | 7 |
| 37 | Prevalence of Achilles tendinopathy in physical exercise: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2022 | 7 |
| 38 | Effect of electromyostimulation and plyometrics training on sports-specific parameters in badminton players | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2022 | 7 |
| 39 | Cellular mechanism of immobilization-induced muscle atrophy: A mini review | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2019 | 6 |
| 40 | Utility of cardiac biomarkers in sports medicine: Focusing on troponin, natriuretic peptides, and hypoxanthine | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 6 |
| 41 | Move More, Sit Less and Sleep Well: An analysis of WHO movement guidelines for children under 5 years of age | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 6 |
| 42 | Harnessing the cardiovascular benefits of exercise: are Nrf2 activators useful? | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 6 |
| 43 | Harrogate consensus agreement: Cycling specific sport related concussion | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 6 |
| 44 | Effectiveness of modified constraint-induced movement therapy for upper limb function intervention following stroke: A brief review | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 6 |
| 45 | Dual-task training to improve cognitive impairment and walking function in Parkinson's disease patients: A brief review | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 6 |
| 46 | Optimization of different intensities of exercise preconditioning in protecting exhausted exercise induced heart injury in rats | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2021 | 6 |
| 47 | Match and training injury incidence in rugby league: A systematic review, pooled analysis, and update on published studies | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2022 | 6 |
| 48 | Dynapenia in all-cause mortality and its relationship with sedentary behavior in community-dwelling older adults | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2022 | 6 |
| 49 | Sleep and stress in the acute phase of concussion in youth | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 5 |
| 50 | Sarcopenia: Clinical implications in ovarian cancer, diagnosis, etiology, and management | Sports Medicine and Health Science | 2020 | 5 |
