Martin Hägglund

20.8k total citations · 13 hit papers
169 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Martin Hägglund is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Hägglund has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 83 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 77 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Martin Hägglund's work include Sports injuries and prevention (149 papers), Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (83 papers) and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (59 papers). Martin Hägglund is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (149 papers), Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (83 papers) and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (59 papers). Martin Hägglund collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Australia and Norway. Martin Hägglund's co-authors include Markus Waldén, Jan Ekstrand, Henrik Magnusson, Roald Bahr, Håkan Bengtsson, Jimmy Ekstrand, Thor Einar Andersen, Karolina Kristenson, Joanna Kvist and Willem Meeuwisse and has published in prestigious journals such as BMJ, The American Journal of Sports Medicine and Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Martin Hägglund

155 papers receiving 13.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Consensus statement on injury definitions and data collection procedures in studies of football (soccer) injuries

2006 1.0k citations Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Epidemiology of Muscle Injuries in Professional Football (Soccer)

2011 1.0k citations Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund et al. profile →
Injury incidence and injury patterns in professional football: the UEFA injury study

2009 1.0k citations Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
How much is too much? (Part 1) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of injury

2016 675 citations Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
How much is too much? (Part 2) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of illness

2016 639 citations Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Injuries affect team performance negatively in professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study

2013 549 citations Martin Hägglund, Markus Waldén et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Hamstring injuries have increased by 4% annually in men's professional football, since 2001: a 13-year longitudinal analysis of the UEFA Elite Club injury study

2016 495 citations Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Hamstring muscle injuries in professional football: the correlation of MRI findings with return to play

2011 348 citations Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Prevention of acute knee injuries in adolescent female football players: cluster randomised controlled trial

2012 323 citations Markus Waldén, Martin Hägglund et al. profile →
Three distinct mechanisms predominate in non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injuries in male professional football players: a systematic video analysis of 39 cases

2015 321 citations Markus Waldén, Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
ACL injuries in men's professional football: a 15-year prospective study on time trends and return-to-play rates reveals only 65% of players still play at the top level 3 years after ACL rupture

2016 244 citations Markus Waldén, Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Hamstring injury rates have increased during recent seasons and now constitute 24% of all injuries in men’s professional football: the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study from 2001/02 to 2021/22

2022 167 citations Jan Ekstrand, Håkan Bengtsson et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
UEFA Women’s Elite Club Injury Study: a prospective study on 1527 injuries over four consecutive seasons 2018/2019 to 2021/2022 reveals thigh muscle injuries to be most common and ACL injuries most burdensome

2024 32 citations Rita Tomás, Jan Ekstrand et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin Hägglund Sweden	51	12.5k	5.5k	4.8k	3.4k	1.3k	169	13.6k
Markus Waldén Sweden	43	9.5k 0.8×	4.7k 0.9×	3.7k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	977 0.8×	117	10.0k
John Orchard Australia	50	8.2k 0.7×	3.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	202	9.5k
Astrid Junge Switzerland	73	11.8k 0.9×	4.5k 0.8×	5.2k 1.1×	4.8k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	215	16.2k
Colin W Fuller United Kingdom	49	8.5k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	3.8k 1.1×	803 0.6×	130	9.7k
Grethe Myklebust Norway	49	10.6k 0.8×	7.8k 1.4×	2.0k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 1.9×	118	12.0k
Evert Verhagen Netherlands	57	8.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.3×	3.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.7×	384	11.4k
Thor Einar Andersen Norway	40	6.3k 0.5×	2.5k 0.5×	2.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	751 0.6×	112	7.2k
Kathrin Steffen Norway	37	5.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.3×	2.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.7×	699 0.5×	104	6.7k
Martin Schwellnus South Africa	47	5.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.3×	2.0k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	933 0.7×	240	7.7k
Kristian Thorborg Denmark	49	6.4k 0.5×	5.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.3×	769 0.2×	1.5k 1.2×	256	8.6k

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Bolling, Caroline, Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2025). ‘Good communication and good team building, it’s half of the work in managing a player’: how team doctors perceive communication in the European professional men’s football context. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 11(1). e002392–e002392.

Fältström, Anne, Joanna Kvist, & Martin Hägglund. (2025). High risk of new knee injuries, lower activity level and reduced knee function: A controlled follow-up of male football (soccer) players 6–9 years after primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 28(9). 733–739.

Bengtsson, Håkan, et al.. (2025). No major changes in injury incidence in European club football during the 2022/23 FIFA World Cup season: a subanalysis of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 11(3). e002772–e002772.

Lindblom, Hanna, Sofi Sonesson, & Martin Hägglund. (2024). ‘We may need some help; we are just parents who have chosen to engage in football’: a qualitative study on amateur coaches’ experiences of use of and support for injury prevention training in Sweden. Injury Prevention. 31(6). ip–2024.

Sonesson, Sofi, et al.. (2024). “I’d rather do that (Knee Control) than be injured and not able to play”: a qualitative study on youth floorball players’ and coaches’ perspectives of how to overcome barriers for injury prevention exercise programme use. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 10(3). e001953–e001953. 1 indexed citations

Tomás, Rita, et al.. (2024). UEFA Women’s Elite Club Injury Study: a prospective study on 1527 injuries over four consecutive seasons 2018/2019 to 2021/2022 reveals thigh muscle injuries to be most common and ACL injuries most burdensome. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 58(3). 128–136. 32 indexed citations breakdown →

Bruder, Andrea M, Brooke Patterson, Kay M. Crossley, et al.. (2024). If we build it together, will they use it? A mixed-methods study evaluating the implementation of Prep-to-Play PRO: an injury prevention programme for women’s elite Australian Football. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 58(4). 213–221. 14 indexed citations

Fältström, Anne, Martin Asker, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2024). Poor knee strength is associated with higher incidence of knee injury in adolescent female football players: The Karolinska football injury cohort. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 33(9). 3179–3193. 2 indexed citations

Fältström, Anne, et al.. (2023). Self-reported knee function and activity level are reduced after primary or additional anterior cruciate ligament injury in female football players: a five-year follow-up study. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy. 27(6). 100573–100573. 5 indexed citations

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Lindblom, Hanna & Martin Hägglund. (2023). Motivation and goal-pursuit for injury prevention training in amateur football coaches: a cross-sectional study using the Health Action Process Approach. Injury Prevention. 30(1). 20–26. 4 indexed citations

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Skillgate, Eva, Anna Melin, Henrik Källberg, et al.. (2023). Dietary habits in adolescent male and female handball players: the Swedish Handball Cohort. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 9(4). e001679–e001679. 1 indexed citations

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Sonesson, Sofi, Hanna Lindblom, & Martin Hägglund. (2023). Higher age and present injury at the start of the season are risk factors for in‐season injury in amateur male and female football players—a prospective cohort study. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 31(10). 4618–4630. 11 indexed citations

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Tranæus, Ulrika, Martin Hägglund, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2022). Study protocol for a prospective cohort study identifying risk factors for sport injury in adolescent female football players: the Karolinska football Injury Cohort (KIC). BMJ Open. 12(1). e055063–e055063. 5 indexed citations

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Waldén, Markus, Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund, et al.. (2022). Influence of the COVID-19 Lockdown and Restart on the Injury Incidence and Injury Burden in Men’s Professional Football Leagues in 2020: The UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. Sports Medicine - Open. 8(1). 67–67. 20 indexed citations

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Fältström, Anne, Eva Skillgate, Henrik Källberg, et al.. (2022). Lifestyle characteristics in adolescent female football players: data from the Karolinska football Injury Cohort. BMC Sports Science Medicine and Rehabilitation. 14(1). 212–212. 8 indexed citations

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Villa, Francesco Della, Martin Hägglund, Stefano Della Villa, Jan Ekstrand, & Markus Waldén. (2021). High rate of second ACL injury following ACL reconstruction in male professional footballers: an updated longitudinal analysis from 118 players in the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 55(23). 1350–1357. 89 indexed citations

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Waldén, Markus, et al.. (2020). Forty-five per cent lower acute injury incidence but no effect on overuse injury prevalence in youth floorball players (aged 12–17 years) who used an injury prevention exercise programme: two-armed parallel-group cluster randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 54(17). 1028–1035. 40 indexed citations

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Bengtsson, Håkan, Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén, & Martin Hägglund. (2019). Few training sessions between return to play and first match appearance are associated with an increased propensity for injury: a prospective cohort study of male professional football players during 16 consecutive seasons. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 54(7). 427–432. 14 indexed citations

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Hägglund, Martin, Markus Waldén, Lluís Til, & Ricard Pruna. (2010). Importancia de la epidemiología en medicina del deporte. Apunts Medicina de l Esport. 45(166). 57–59. 1 indexed citations

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Pedret, Carles, et al.. (2009). Male field hockey prospective injury study. Comparison with soccer [Estudio lesional prospectivo en hockey hierba. Comparacin con el ftbol]. 26(129). 22–30. 1 indexed citations

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