Nicolas Babault

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Babault is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Complementary and alternative medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Babault has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 53 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 15 papers in Complementary and alternative medicine. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Babault's work include Sports Performance and Training (53 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (53 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (50 papers). Nicolas Babault is often cited by papers focused on Sports Performance and Training (53 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (53 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (50 papers). Nicolas Babault collaborates with scholars based in France, Brazil and United States. Nicolas Babault's co-authors include Anthony J. Blazevich, Michel Pousson, Jules Opplert, Nicola A. Maffiuletti, Jacques Van Hoecke, Anne Michaut, Kévin Desbrosses, Gaëlle Deley, Christos Païzis and Carole Cometti and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Journal of Applied Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Babault

94 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Post-activation Potentiation Versus Post-activation Performance Enhancement in Humans: Historical Perspective, Underlying Mechanisms, and Current Issues

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Babault France	28	2.1k	1.4k	566	410	259	101	3.1k
Eric J. Drinkwater Australia	36	3.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	545 1.0×	462 1.1×	319 1.2×	114	4.2k
Andrew D. Vigotsky United States	26	1.4k 0.7×	807 0.6×	343 0.6×	143 0.3×	225 0.9×	79	2.2k
Michel Pousson France	25	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	319 0.6×	277 0.7×	222 0.9×	41	2.5k
Caroline Nicol France	26	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	286 0.5×	493 1.2×	154 0.6×	76	2.3k
Jukka T. Viitasalo Finland	35	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	458 0.8×	346 0.8×	224 0.9×	75	3.2k
Jonathan P. Farthing Canada	31	1.2k 0.6×	848 0.6×	243 0.4×	479 1.2×	350 1.4×	81	2.6k
Brian K. Schilling United States	36	2.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	701 1.2×	750 1.8×	203 0.8×	136	4.1k
Christophe Hautier France	25	1.6k 0.8×	879 0.6×	494 0.9×	150 0.4×	163 0.6×	95	2.2k
Mark Glaister United Kingdom	24	2.0k 0.9×	672 0.5×	884 1.6×	346 0.8×	83 0.3×	73	2.9k
James L. Nuzzo Australia	24	1.4k 0.7×	696 0.5×	292 0.5×	160 0.4×	137 0.5×	70	2.0k

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Vaz, Marco Aurélio, Gerson Cipriano, Denis César Leite Vieira, et al.. (2025). Fatigue and neuromuscular function in long COVID: A one-year follow-up study. PLoS ONE. 20(9). e0332242–e0332242.

Grosprêtre, Sidney, et al.. (2024). The Combination of Motor Imagery and Post-Activation Performance Enhancement is Efficient to Emphasize the Effects of Warm-Up on Sport-Specific Performance. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 23(4). 834–842. 1 indexed citations

Marqueti, Rita de Cássia, et al.. (2024). Effect of muscle length on maximum evoked torque, discomfort, contraction fatigue, and strength adaptations during electrical stimulation in adult populations: A systematic review. PLoS ONE. 19(6). e0304205–e0304205.

Païzis, Christos, et al.. (2024). Impact of the Menstrual Cycle on Physical Performance and Subjective Ratings in Elite Academy Women Soccer Players. Sports. 12(1). 16–16. 9 indexed citations

Babault, Nicolas, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the Efficacy of Eccentric Half-Squats for Post-Activation Performance Enhancement in Jump Ability in Male Jumpers. Applied Sciences. 14(2). 749–749. 2 indexed citations

Babault, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). The Effect of Bodyweight Support and Incline Running on Triceps Surae Electromyographic Activity. Applied Sciences. 13(17). 9620–9620.

Vieira, Denis César Leite, et al.. (2023). Does Electrode Sensor Positioning over Motor Points Affect Different Portions of Quadriceps Muscle Architecture during Submaximal Evoked Torque?. Journal of Sensors. 2023(1). 1 indexed citations

Martin, Alain, et al.. (2023). Effect of Different Local Vibration Durations on Knee Extensors’ Maximal Isometric Strength. Applied Sciences. 13(20). 11376–11376. 1 indexed citations

Païzis, Christos, et al.. (2022). Physical Impact of a Typical Training Session with Different Volumes on the Day Preceding a Match in Academy Soccer Players. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(21). 13828–13828. 5 indexed citations

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Babault, Nicolas, et al.. (2022). Intra- and Inter-Rater Reliability and Agreement of Ultrasound Imaging of Muscle Architecture and Patellar Tendon in Post-COVID-19 Patients Who Had Experienced Moderate or Severe COVID-19 Infection. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(23). 6934–6934. 2 indexed citations

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Mathieu, Bertrand, Julien Robineau, Julien Piscione, & Nicolas Babault. (2022). Concurrent Training Programming: The Acute Effects of Sprint Interval Exercise on the Subsequent Strength Training. Sports. 10(5). 75–75. 9 indexed citations

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Babault, Nicolas, et al.. (2022). Usefulness of Surface Electromyography Complexity Analyses to Assess the Effects of Warm-Up and Stretching during Maximal and Sub-Maximal Hamstring Contractions: A Cross-Over, Randomized, Single-Blind Trial. Biology. 11(9). 1337–1337. 8 indexed citations

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Fachin‐Martins, Emerson, et al.. (2022). Neuromuscular disorders in women and men with spinal cord injury are associated with changes in muscle and tendon architecture. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. 46(5). 742–752. 2 indexed citations

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Cometti, Carole, et al.. (2021). Effects of Balance Shoes on Balance and Postural Stability in the Elderly: A Crossover, Controlled, Randomized Single-Blind Study. Healthcare. 9(2). 179–179. 4 indexed citations

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Marqueti, Rita de Cássia, Patrick Corrigan, Martim Bottaro, et al.. (2021). The effects of knee and hip joint angles on patellar tendon loading during quadriceps neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Translational Sports Medicine. 4(5). 587–596. 7 indexed citations

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Opplert, Jules, et al.. (2020). Acute Static Stretching Results in Muscle-Specific Alterations amongst the Hamstring Muscles. Sports. 8(9). 119–119. 3 indexed citations

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Cometti, Carole, et al.. (2018). Effects of mixed reality head-mounted glasses during 90 minutes of mental and manual tasks on cognitive and physiological functions. PeerJ. 6. e5847–e5847. 28 indexed citations

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Maldaner, Vinicius, et al.. (2017). Neuromuscular electrophysiological disorders and muscle atrophy in mechanically-ventilated traumatic brain injury patients: New insights from a prospective observational study. Journal of Critical Care. 44. 87–94. 33 indexed citations

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Deley, Gaëlle, et al.. (2017). An Acute Dose of Specific Grape and Apple Polyphenols Improves Endurance Performance: A Randomized, Crossover, Double-Blind versus Placebo Controlled Study. Nutrients. 9(8). 917–917. 25 indexed citations

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Opplert, Jules, et al.. (2017). Acute effects of static stretching on muscle–tendon mechanics of quadriceps and plantar flexor muscles. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 117(7). 1309–1315. 17 indexed citations

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