Christopher Carling

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher Carling is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Rehabilitation. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Carling has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 36 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 19 papers in Rehabilitation. Recurrent topics in Christopher Carling's work include Sports Performance and Training (110 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (108 papers) and Sport Psychology and Performance (33 papers). Christopher Carling is often cited by papers focused on Sports Performance and Training (110 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (108 papers) and Sport Psychology and Performance (33 papers). Christopher Carling collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Brazil. Christopher Carling's co-authors include Franck Le Gall, Alan McCall, Thomas Reilly, Grégory Dupont, Mathieu Nédélec, Serge Berthoin, Grégory Dupont, Paul S. Bradley, Franck Legall and Jonathan Bloomfield and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Carling

128 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. High-Intensity Acceleration and Deceleration Demands in Elite Team Sports Competitive Match Play: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies
    2019 259 citations Damian Harper, Christopher Carling et al. Sports Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Carling United Kingdom 53 8.2k 2.6k 1.3k 1.3k 969 139 8.8k
Koen Lemmink Netherlands 47 4.6k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 824 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 473 0.5× 157 6.4k
Ermanno Rampinini Italy 43 8.6k 1.1× 2.3k 0.9× 564 0.4× 1.8k 1.4× 655 0.7× 88 9.2k
Alberto Méndez-Villanueva Qatar 50 7.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 326 0.2× 1.8k 1.4× 826 0.9× 107 8.0k
Ben Jones United Kingdom 42 4.9k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 364 0.3× 900 0.7× 565 0.6× 320 6.2k
Del P. Wong Hong Kong 48 4.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.5× 402 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 395 0.4× 134 6.0k
Carlo Castagna Italy 67 15.5k 1.9× 4.3k 1.7× 885 0.7× 3.2k 2.6× 1.4k 1.4× 229 16.8k
Émerson Franchini Brazil 56 8.7k 1.1× 1.5k 0.6× 382 0.3× 1.2k 1.0× 776 0.8× 458 11.8k
Jon L. Oliver United Kingdom 45 6.2k 0.8× 2.9k 1.1× 252 0.2× 1.6k 1.2× 534 0.6× 173 7.2k
Fábio Yuzo Nakamura Brazil 48 7.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.7× 233 0.2× 2.3k 1.8× 1.7k 1.8× 495 9.8k
Kevin Till United Kingdom 43 4.9k 0.6× 2.9k 1.1× 417 0.3× 695 0.6× 374 0.4× 216 5.9k

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All Works

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Carling, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Match-play running activity in elite female soccer field and assistant referees. Biology of Sport. 42(3). 275–282. 1 indexed citations
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Carling, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Consideration of Mental Health and Well-Being in High-Level Sport: When Will a Coach-Centred Approach Be Introduced?. Sports Medicine. 54(9). 2233–2241. 3 indexed citations
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Modrić, Toni, Christopher Carling, Carlos Lago‐Peñas, et al.. (2024). It is not (all) about running faster, opponent also plays; the effect of opposition team formation on running performance in professional soccer match-play. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport. 25(4). 595–609. 1 indexed citations
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Piscione, Julien, et al.. (2024). Impact of Weekly Training-Load Structure and Content on the Risk of Injury in Professional Rugby Union Match-Play. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 38(9). 1613–1619. 2 indexed citations
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Modrić, Toni, Christopher Carling, Carlos Lago‐Peñas, et al.. (2023). To train or not to train (on match day)? Influence of a priming session on match performance in competitive elite-level soccer. Journal of Sports Sciences. 41(18). 1726–1733.
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Leduc, Cédric, et al.. (2023). Anthropometric and physical characteristics in U16, U18 and U20 elite French youth rugby union players. PLoS ONE. 18(12). e0295623–e0295623. 2 indexed citations
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Vieira, Luiz Henrique Palucci, Christopher Carling, Carlos Augusto Kalva‐Filho, et al.. (2023). Recovery of kicking kinematics and performance following repeated high-intensity running bouts in the heat: Can a rapid local cooling intervention help young soccer players?. Journal of Sports Sciences. 41(5). 430–440. 4 indexed citations
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Piscione, Julien, et al.. (2022). A comparison of running and contact loads in U18 and U20 international rugby union competition. Biology of Sport. 40(1). 149–160. 2 indexed citations
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Vieira, Luiz Henrique Palucci, et al.. (2022). Modelling the relationships between EEG signals, movement kinematics and outcome in soccer kicking. Cognitive Neurodynamics. 16(6). 1303–1321. 9 indexed citations
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Duclos, Martine, et al.. (2021). The Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Elite Athlete Performance: A Critical and Systematic Review. Frontiers in Physiology. 12. 654585–654585. 97 indexed citations
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Harper, Damian, Jo Clubb, Megan K Young, et al.. (2021). Elite football of 2030 will not be the same as that of 2020: What has evolved and what needs to evolve?. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 31(2). 493–494. 26 indexed citations
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Aquino, Rodrigo, Christopher Carling, José Maia, et al.. (2020). Relationships between running demands in soccer match-play, anthropometric, and physical fitness characteristics: a systematic review. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport. 20(3). 534–555. 50 indexed citations
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Vieira, Luiz Henrique Palucci, et al.. (2020). Acute Effects of Warm-Up, Exercise and Recovery-Related Strategies on Assessments of Soccer Kicking Performance: A Critical and Systematic Review. Sports Medicine. 51(4). 661–705. 14 indexed citations
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Vieira, Luiz Henrique Palucci, Christopher Carling, Fábio Augusto Barbieri, Rodrigo Aquino, & Paulo Roberto Pereira Santiago. (2019). Match Running Performance in Young Soccer Players: A Systematic Review. Sports Medicine. 49(2). 289–318. 108 indexed citations
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Taberner, Matt, Jack Phillips, Graeme L. Close, et al.. (2019). Interchangeability of position tracking technologies; can we merge the data?. Science and Medicine in Football. 4(1). 76–81. 33 indexed citations
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Aquino, Rodrigo, et al.. (2017). Effects of competitive standard, team formation and playing position on match running performance of Brazilian professional soccer players. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport. 17(5). 695–705. 56 indexed citations
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Smith, Andrew W., et al.. (2012). THE EFFECTS OF MAN-MARKING ON WORK INTENSITY IN SMALL-SIDED SOCCER GAMES. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10 indexed citations

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