| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Role of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in the Mental Health of Preschoolers, Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Sports Medicine | 2019 | 603 |
| 2 | Muscular strength in male adolescents and premature death: cohort study of one million participants | BMJ, The | 2012 | 401 |
| 3 | Muscular Strength as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in an Apparently Healthy Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Data From Approximately 2 Million Men and Women | Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | 2018 | 334 |
| 4 | Short sleep duration is associated with increased obesity markers in European adolescents: effect of physical activity and dietary habits. The HELENA study | International Journal of Obesity | 2011 | 329 |
| 5 | Match analysis and heart rate of futsal players during competition | Journal of Sports Sciences | 2008 | 271 |
| 6 | A systematic review of interventions for promoting active transportation to school | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | 2011 | 214 |
| 7 | Selective Alterations Within Executive Functions in Adolescents With Excess Weight | Obesity | 2010 | 170 |
| 8 | Systematic Review and Proposal of a Field-Based Physical Fitness-Test Battery in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Battery | Sports Medicine | 2015 | 167 |
| 9 | Doping in Sport: A Review of Elite Athletes’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Knowledge | Sports Medicine | 2013 | 166 |
| 10 | Criterion-Related Validity of Sit-and-Reach Tests for Estimating Hamstring and Lumbar Extensibility: a Meta-Analysis | Journal of Sports Science and Medicine | 2014 | 144 |
| 11 | Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Sedentary Activities Are Associated with Adiposity in Adolescents | Obesity | 2007 | 143 |
| 12 | Nutrition and Lifestyle in European Adolescents: The HELENA (Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence) Study | Advances in Nutrition | 2014 | 142 |
| 13 | Reliability and Concurrent Validity of Seven Commercially Available Devices for the Assessment of Movement Velocity at Different Intensities During the Bench Press | Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research | 2019 | 140 |
| 14 | Heart rate variability and cognitive processing: The autonomic response to task demands | Biological Psychology | 2016 | 139 |
| 15 | Relationship Between Endurance Field Tests and Match Performance in Young Soccer Players | Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research | 2010 | 137 |
| 16 | Exercise during pregnancy and gestational diabetes-related adverse effects: a randomised controlled trial | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2013 | 131 |
| 17 | Attacking and defensive styles of play in soccer: analysis of Spanish and English elite teams | Journal of Sports Sciences | 2016 | 128 |
| 18 | The Ottawa panel clinical practice guidelines for the management of knee osteoarthritis. Part two: strengthening exercise programs | Clinical Rehabilitation | 2017 | 128 |
| 19 | Criterion-Related Validity of the 20-M Shuttle Run Test for Estimating Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Meta-Analysis | Journal of Sports Science and Medicine | 2015 | 122 |
| 20 | Plyometrics' Trainability in Preadolescent Soccer Athletes | Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research | 2013 | 118 |
| 21 | Mobile-based intervention intended to stop obesity in preschool-aged children: the MINISTOP randomized controlled trial , | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2017 | 113 |
| 22 | A whole brain volumetric approach in overweight/obese children: Examining the association with different physical fitness components and academic performance. The ActiveBrains project | NeuroImage | 2017 | 113 |
| 23 | Physical Activity, Fitness, Weight Status, and Cognitive Performance in Adolescents | Journal of Pediatrics | 2010 | 103 |
| 24 | Active commuting to school in children and adolescents: An opportunity to increase physical activity and fitness | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health | 2010 | 100 |
| 25 | Assessing physical fitness in preschool children: Feasibility, reliability and practical recommendations for the PREFIT battery | Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport | 2016 | 99 |
| 26 | Mean Velocity vs. Mean Propulsive Velocity vs. Peak Velocity: Which Variable Determines Bench Press Relative Load With Higher Reliability? | Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research | 2018 | 98 |
| 27 | Role of Exercise in the Activation of Brown Adipose Tissue | Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism | 2015 | 96 |
| 28 | Activating brown adipose tissue through exercise (ACTIBATE) in young adults: Rationale, design and methodology | Contemporary Clinical Trials | 2015 | 92 |
| 29 | Systematic review of interventions for promoting active school transport | Preventive Medicine | 2018 | 92 |
| 30 | Nonlocalized postactivation performance enhancement (PAPE) effects in trained athletes: a pilot study | Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism | 2017 | 86 |
| 31 | A longitudinal study of the distance that young people walk to school | Health and Place | 2015 | 84 |
| 32 | Criterion-Related Validity of the Distance- and Time-Based Walk/Run Field Tests for Estimating Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 84 |
| 33 | Relationship between vertical and horizontal force-velocity-power profiles in various sports and levels of practice | PeerJ | 2018 | 81 |
| 34 | Parental barriers to active transport to school: a systematic review | International Journal of Public Health | 2020 | 79 |
| 35 | A cross-sectional study of demographic, environmental and parental barriers to active school travel among children in the United States | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | 2014 | 78 |
| 36 | Socio-economic factors and active commuting to school in urban Spanish adolescents: the AVENA study | European Journal of Public Health | 2009 | 77 |
| 37 | Load-Velocity Relationship in Variations of the Half-Squat Exercise: Influence of Execution Technique | Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research | 2020 | 77 |
| 38 | The Ottawa panel clinical practice guidelines for the management of knee osteoarthritis. Part one: introduction, and mind-body exercise programs | Clinical Rehabilitation | 2017 | 75 |
| 39 | Influence of contextual variables on styles of play in soccer | International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport | 2018 | 73 |
| 40 | Two-Point Method: A Quick and Fatigue-Free Procedure for Assessment of Muscle Mechanical Capacities and the 1 Repetition Maximum | Strength and Conditioning Journal | 2018 | 72 |
| 41 | Fibromyalgia has a larger impact on physical health than on psychological health, yet both are markedly affected: The al-Ándalus project | Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism | 2015 | 71 |
| 42 | Heart rate variability and pre-competitive anxiety in BMX discipline | European Journal of Applied Physiology | 2012 | 70 |
| 43 | Effectiveness of Exercise on Fatigue and Sleep Quality in Fibromyalgia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials | Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | 2021 | 70 |
| 44 | The Ottawa panel clinical practice guidelines for the management of knee osteoarthritis. Part three: aerobic exercise programs | Clinical Rehabilitation | 2017 | 68 |
| 45 | Follow-up in healthy schoolchildren and in adolescents with DOWN syndrome: psycho-environmental and genetic determinants of physical activity and its impact on fitness, cardiovascular diseases, inflammatory biomarkers and mental health; the UP&DOWN Study | BMC Public Health | 2014 | 67 |
| 46 | Six-Year Trend in Active Commuting to School in Spanish Adolescents | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 2013 | 66 |
| 47 | Force–Velocity Relationship of Upper Body Muscles: Traditional Versus Ballistic Bench Press | Journal of Applied Biomechanics | 2016 | 65 |
| 48 | Reliability and validity of different methods of estimating the one-repetition maximum during the free-weight prone bench pull exercise | Journal of Sports Sciences | 2019 | 65 |
| 49 | Sodium Bicarbonate and Sodium Citrate: Ergogenic Aids? | Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research | 2005 | 65 |
| 50 | Sleep patterns in Spanish adolescents: associations with TV watching and leisure-time physical activity | European Journal of Applied Physiology | 2010 | 64 |
