Colum Cronin

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Colum Cronin is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Colum Cronin has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 20 papers in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Colum Cronin's work include Sport Psychology and Performance (29 papers), Physical Education and Pedagogy (20 papers) and Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (18 papers). Colum Cronin is often cited by papers focused on Sport Psychology and Performance (29 papers), Physical Education and Pedagogy (20 papers) and Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (18 papers). Colum Cronin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Norway. Colum Cronin's co-authors include Kathleen Armour, David Richardson, Ed Cope, Amy Whitehead, Graham Baker, Barbara Walsh, Simon J. Roberts, James P. Morton, Zöe Knowles and Martin Littlewood and has published in prestigious journals such as Sports Medicine, Frontiers in Psychology and Journal of Sports Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Colum Cronin

39 papers receiving 1.0k 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. Doing your literature review: traditional and systematic techniques
    2011 537 citations Colum Cronin Evaluation & Research in Education profile →

Peers

Colum Cronin
Steven Vos Netherlands
Popi Sotiriadou Australia
Ferrán Calabuig Moreno Spain
María Huertas González‐Serrano Spain
Ana Passos Portugal
Hans Westerbeek Australia
Jessie Brouwers Australia
Minjung Kim United States
Gene W. Gloeckner United States
Joe Francis United States
Steven Vos Netherlands
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colum Cronin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colum Cronin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colum Cronin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Colum Cronin. Colum Cronin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Cronin, Colum, et al.. (2024). ‘Baby Ban’ and ‘we are not the same’: creative non-fiction dialogue exploring pregnancy and motherhood for a funded Paralympic and unfunded Olympic athlete. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health. 16(5). 503–518. 2 indexed citations
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Kirk, Christopher, Colum Cronin, Carl Langan‐Evans, David R. Clark, & James P. Morton. (2024). From Early Explorers to Restricted Practitioners: A Qualitative Analysis of Coaches’ Development, Context, and Practices Within U.K. Mixed Martial Arts. International Sport Coaching Journal. 13(1). 133–144.
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Dixon, Andrew J., Martin Littlewood, Colum Cronin, Craig Twist, & Graeme L. Close. (2024). Physical collisions during elite rugby league match play and training: A stakeholder's perspective. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. 20(1). 210–224. 1 indexed citations
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Dixon, Andrew J., Martin Littlewood, Colum Cronin, Craig Twist, & Graeme L. Close. (2023). Understanding elite rugby league players’ experience of collision, effective contact coaching techniques, and player contact psychology: A focus group study. Journal of Sports Sciences. 41(23). 2121–2128. 1 indexed citations
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Cope, Ed, et al.. (2023). How did we get here; a historical and social exploration of the construction of English FA coach education. Sport Education and Society. 29(9). 1133–1152. 3 indexed citations
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Cronin, Colum, et al.. (2023). Teaching efficacy of undergraduate PE students; what are the key predictors and what can PE educators learn from this?. Frontiers in Education. 8. 1 indexed citations
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Cope, Ed, et al.. (2022). An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum. Sport Education and Society. 29(2). 221–239. 8 indexed citations
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Cope, Ed, et al.. (2021). Less may be more: how do coach developers reproduce “learner-centred” policy in practice?. Sports Coaching Review. 10(2). 203–224. 22 indexed citations
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Richardson, David, et al.. (2020). Creating and disseminating coach education policy: a case of formal coach education in grassroots football. Sport Education and Society. 26(8). 917–930. 25 indexed citations
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Richardson, David, et al.. (2019). Learning from the past; a Freirean analysis of FA coach education since 1967. Sport Education and Society. 25(6). 681–697. 29 indexed citations
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Cronin, Colum. (2019). Ethics in youth sport: policy and pedagogical applications. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. 46(3). 454–457. 4 indexed citations
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Cronin, Colum, et al.. (2018). Women's lived experiences of fatness.
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Cronin, Colum, et al.. (2018). Carefully supporting autonomy – learning coaching lessons and advancing theory from women’s netball in England. Sports Coaching Review. 8(2). 149–171. 16 indexed citations
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Cronin, Colum, et al.. (2017). ‘Sinking and swimming in disability coaching’: an autoethnographic account of coaching in a new context. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health. 10(3). 362–377. 11 indexed citations
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Cronin, Colum, et al.. (2016). Embedding experiential learning in HE sport coaching courses: An action research study. Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education. 18. 1–8. 31 indexed citations
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Cronin, Colum, et al.. (2015). Nurture, nature and some very dubious social skills: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of talent identification practices in elite English youth soccer. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health. 7(5). 642–662. 43 indexed citations
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Cronin, Colum. (2011). Doing your literature review: traditional and systematic techniques. Evaluation & Research in Education. 24(3). 219–221. 537 indexed citations breakdown →

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