Luís Vilar

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Luís Vilar is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Luís Vilar has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Luís Vilar's work include Sports Performance and Training (26 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (19 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (16 papers). Luís Vilar is often cited by papers focused on Sports Performance and Training (26 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (19 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (16 papers). Luís Vilar collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Australia and Finland. Luís Vilar's co-authors include Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids, Bruno Travassos, Vanda Correia, Ricardo Duarte, Pedro Esteves, Tim McGarry, Ian Renshaw, Yaneer Bar‐Yam and Ross A. Pinder and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Sports Medicine and British Journal of Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Luís Vilar

30 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

How Small-Sided and Conditioned Games Enhance Acquisition of Movement and Decision-Making Skills

2013 359 citations Keith Davids, Duarte Araújo et al. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews profile →

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Luís Vilar

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Ricardo Duarte Portugal

Vanda Correia Portugal

Allistair P. McRobert United Kingdom

Nuno Leite Portugal

Pedro Esteves Portugal

Carlota Torrents Spain

Tim McGarry Canada

Diogo Coutinho Portugal

Wouter Frencken Netherlands

Rui Marcelino Portugal

Ricardo Duarte Portugal

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20 of 20 papers shown

Silva, Pedro, Luís Vilar, Keith Davids, Duarte Araújo, & Júlio Garganta. (2016). Sports teams as complex adaptive systems: manipulating player numbers shapes behaviours during football small-sided games. SpringerPlus. 5(1). 191–191. 54 indexed citations

Esteves, Pedro, et al.. (2015). Angular relationships regulate coordination tendencies of performers in attacker–defender dyads in team sports. Human Movement Science. 40. 264–272. 16 indexed citations

Esteves, Pedro, Pedro Silva, Luís Vilar, et al.. (2015). Space occupation near the basket shapes collective behaviours in youth basketball. Journal of Sports Sciences. 34(16). 1557–1563. 21 indexed citations

Corrêa, Umberto César, Luís Vilar, Keith Davids, & Ian Renshaw. (2014). Informational constraints on the emergence of passing direction in the team sport of futsal. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2 indexed citations

Silva, Pedro, Bruno Travassos, Luís Vilar, et al.. (2014). Numerical Relations and Skill Level Constrain Co-Adaptive Behaviors of Agents in Sports Teams. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e107112–e107112. 99 indexed citations

Corrêa, Umberto César, Luís Vilar, Keith Davids, & Ian Renshaw. (2014). Interpersonal Angular Relations between Players Constrain Decision-Making on the Passing Velocity in Futsal. Advances in Physical Education. 4(2). 93–101. 13 indexed citations

Vilar, Luís, Ricardo Duarte, Pedro Silva, Jia Yi Chow, & Keith Davids. (2014). The influence of pitch dimensions on performance during small-sided and conditioned soccer games. Journal of Sports Sciences. 32(19). 1751–1759. 71 indexed citations

Davids, Keith, Duarte Araújo, Luís Vilar, Ian Renshaw, & Ross A. Pinder. (2013). An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Skill Acquisition: Implications for Development of Talent in Sport. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 5(1). 136 indexed citations

Davids, Keith, Duarte Araújo, Vanda Correia, & Luís Vilar. (2013). How Small-Sided and Conditioned Games Enhance Acquisition of Movement and Decision-Making Skills. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews. 41(3). 154–161. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

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Correia, Vanda, Duarte Araújo, Luís Vilar, & Keith Davids. (2012). From recording discrete actions to studying continuous goal-directed behaviours in team sports. Journal of Sports Sciences. 31(5). 546–553. 27 indexed citations

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Vilar, Luís, Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids, Vanda Correia, & Pedro Esteves. (2012). Spatial-temporal constraints on decision-making during shooting performance in the team sport of futsal. Journal of Sports Sciences. 31(8). 840–846. 56 indexed citations

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Corrêa, Umberto César, Luís Vilar, Keith Davids, & Ian Renshaw. (2012). Informational constraints on the emergence of passing direction in the team sport of futsal. European Journal of Sport Science. 14(2). 169–176. 36 indexed citations

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Travassos, Bruno, Ricardo Duarte, Luís Vilar, Keith Davids, & Duarte Araújo. (2012). Practice task design in team sports: Representativeness enhanced by increasing opportunities for action. Journal of Sports Sciences. 30(13). 1447–1454. 120 indexed citations

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Vilar, Luís, Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids, & Ian Renshaw. (2012). The need for ‘representative task design’ in evaluating efficacy of skills tests in sport: A comment on Russell, Benton and Kingsley (2010). Journal of Sports Sciences. 30(16). 1727–1730. 2 indexed citations

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Vilar, Luís, Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids, & Bruno Travassos. (2012). Constraints on competitive performance of attacker–defender dyads in team sports. Journal of Sports Sciences. 30(5). 459–469. 63 indexed citations

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Travassos, Bruno, Duarte Araújo, Luís Vilar, & Tim McGarry. (2011). Interpersonal coordination and ball dynamics in futsal (indoor football). Human Movement Science. 30(6). 1245–1259. 117 indexed citations

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Vilar, Luís, Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids, & Chris Button. (2011). The Role of Ecological Dynamics in Analysing Performance in Team Sports. Sports Medicine. 42(1). 1–10. 18 indexed citations

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Travassos, Bruno, et al.. (2011). Informational constraints shape emergent functional behaviours during performance of interceptive actions in team sports. Psychology of sport and exercise. 13(2). 216–223. 116 indexed citations

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Davids, Keith, Luís Vilar, Bruno Travassos, & Duarte Araújo. (2010). Ball and goal location as constraints on decision making in team sports. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 13. e89–e89. 4 indexed citations

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Araújo, Duarte, Bruno Travassos, & Luís Vilar. (2010). TACTICAL SKILLS ARE NOT VERBAL SKILLS: A COMMENT ON KANNEKENS AND COLLEAGUES¹. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 110(3C). 1086–1088. 2 indexed citations

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