Nick Wattie

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Nick Wattie is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Wattie has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 42 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Nick Wattie's work include Sports Performance and Training (42 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (39 papers) and Sports injuries and prevention (26 papers). Nick Wattie is often cited by papers focused on Sports Performance and Training (42 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (39 papers) and Sports injuries and prevention (26 papers). Nick Wattie collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and United States. Nick Wattie's co-authors include Joseph Baker, Jörg Schorer, Stephen Cobley, Jim McKenna, Kathryn Johnston, Srdjan Lemez, Nima Dehghansai, William Montelpare, Kevin Till and John O’Hara and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

Nick Wattie

65 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Annual Age-Grouping and Athlete Development

2009 592 citations Stephen Cobley, Joseph Baker et al. profile →
Talent Identification in Sport: A Systematic Review

2017 273 citations Nick Wattie, Jörg Schorer et al. profile →

Peers

Nick Wattie

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Arne Güllich Germany

Job Fransen Australia

Corrado Lupo Italy

Stephen D. Mellalieu United Kingdom

Paul R. Ford United Kingdom

Donna O’Connor Australia

Javier García-Rubio Spain

Juanita R. Weissensteiner Australia

Israel Teoldo Brazil

Áine MacNamara Ireland

Arne Güllich Germany

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1.4k ×0.6

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567 ×0.9

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264 ×0.6

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132 ×0.7

CCM

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Countries citing papers authored by Nick Wattie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Wattie

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Wattie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nick Wattie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nick Wattie 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 Nick Wattie. Nick Wattie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Schorer, Jörg, Dirk Büsch, Irene R. Faber, & Nick Wattie. (2025). Retrospective Analyses of Stability and Variability in Relative Age Effects of Handball Talents Over Seventeen Years. Sports Medicine - Open. 11(1). 6–6. 1 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Ian, et al.. (2022). Training and development in sport officials: A systematic review. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 32(4). 654–671. 21 indexed citations

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Baker, Joseph, et al.. (2019). Solving sport’s ‘relative age’ problem: a systematic review of proposed solutions. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 13(1). 187–204. 52 indexed citations

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Baker, Joseph & Nick Wattie. (2018). Innate talent in sport. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10 indexed citations

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Schorer, Jörg, et al.. (2018). Population density and proximity to junior developmental teams affect the development of National Hockey League draftees. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 28(11). 2427–2435. 5 indexed citations

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Lemez, Srdjan, Nick Wattie, & Joseph Baker. (2018). The end game: Mortality outcomes in North American professional athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 28(6). 1722–1730. 4 indexed citations

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Wattie, Nick, et al.. (2018). The influence of relative age on youths' developmental experiences in sport. 50(1). 200–200. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, Joseph, Jörg Schorer, & Nick Wattie. (2017). Compromising Talent: Issues in Identifying and Selecting Talent in Sport. Quest. 70(1). 48–63. 162 indexed citations

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Livingston, Lori A., et al.. (2017). Sport officiating recruitment, development, and retention: A call to action. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15 indexed citations

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Lemez, Srdjan, et al.. (2017). Vital statistics and early death predictors of North American professional basketball players: A historical examination. Journal of Sports Sciences. 36(14). 1648–1655. 3 indexed citations

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Baker, Joseph, et al.. (2017). The association of two relative age effects and estimated money value in elite soccer. 49(1). 128–128. 1 indexed citations

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Dehghansai, Nima, Srdjan Lemez, Nick Wattie, & Joseph Baker. (2017). Training histories and sporting backgrounds of athletes with acquired disabilities: Does an athlete's experience prior to injury influence their sporting selection and performance in parasport?. 49(1). 74–74.

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Wattie, Nick, et al.. (2016). The interaction between constituent year and within‐1‐year effects in elite German youth basketball. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 27(6). 627–633. 20 indexed citations

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Schorer, Jörg, et al.. (2016). The birthplace effect in national hockey league draftees: Exploring between city variability trends in athlete development. 48(1). 85–85. 1 indexed citations

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Schorer, Jörg, et al.. (2015). Understanding the origins of Canadian Olympic performance: Geographic constraints on the acquisition of sport expertise. 47(1). 91–91. 1 indexed citations

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Schorer, Jörg, Stephen Cobley, Florian Loffing, et al.. (2015). Developmental contexts, depth of competition and relative age effects in sport: A database analysis and a quasi- experiment. Carl von Ossiezky University of Oldenburg. 57(1). 126–143. 15 indexed citations

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Wattie, Nick, et al.. (2015). Virtual Realities as Optimal Learning Environments in Sport - A Transfer Study of Virtual and Real Dart Throwing. 57(1). 57. 53 indexed citations

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Baker, Joseph, Stephen Cobley, William Montelpare, Nick Wattie, & Brent E. Faught. (2010). Exploring proposed mechanisms of the relative age effect in Canadian minor hockey.. International journal of sport psychology. 41(2). 148–159. 24 indexed citations

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Cobley, Stephen, et al.. (2009). How pervasive are relative age effects in secondary school education?. Journal of Educational Psychology. 101(2). 520–528. 91 indexed citations

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Wattie, Nick, Joseph Baker, Stephen Cobley, & William Montelpare. (2007). A historical examination of relative age effects in Canadian hockey players. International journal of sport psychology. 38(2). 178–186. 71 indexed citations

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