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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
27,165
Country Rank
219
Institution Rank : 70
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9794.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Emerson Franchini](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/81/829150.jpg)
Sports Science
Sports Physiology
Sports Performance
Exercise Physiology
Combat Sports
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,916
14,922
0.576
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
62,495
Country Rank
705
Institution Rank : 42
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9896.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Eduardo Cadore](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/ed/835224.jpg)
Sports Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,191
9,714
0.685
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
81,789
Country Rank
1,048
Institution Rank : 15
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9775.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Martim Bottaro](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/59/861575.jpg)
strength training
exercise physiology
resistance exercise
physical education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,462
6,020
0.525
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
81,998
Country Rank
1,051
Institution Rank : 50
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9865.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Dawit Albieiro Pinheiro Gonçalves *](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/bb/892701.jpg)
Skeletal muscle
running exercise
strength
protein metabolism
molecular biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,437
6,311
0.552
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
116,620
Country Rank
408
Institution Rank : 15
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/6814.png)
![Russia](/flags/ru.png)
![Александр Болотин](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/39/1107854.jpg)
теория и методика физической культуры
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,433
4,155
0.493
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
138,390
Country Rank
2,342
Institution Rank : 22
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9867.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Fabricio Boscolo Del Vecchio](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/01/947517.jpg)
Sports Science
Health
Physical Education
Sports Training
Combat Sports
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,215
4,363
0.605
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
138,907
Country Rank
2,360
Institution Rank : 116
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9847.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Sebastião Gobbi](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Physical Education
Exercise
Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,190
2,375
0.330
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
142,888
Country Rank
2,457
Institution Rank : 48
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9871.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Juarez Vieira Do Nascimento](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e4/1102952.jpg)
Sport Pedagogy
Physical Education
Teacher Education
Coach Education
Professional Development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,002
3,889
0.555
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
150,907
Country Rank
598
Institution Rank : 77
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11498.jpg)
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
![Lisa Micklesfield](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Physical activity
bone health
body composition
metabolic disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,645
4,319
0.650
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
155,609
Country Rank
2,850
Institution Rank : 215
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9826.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Claudio Alexandre Gobatto](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Fisiologia do Exercício - Treinamento Desportivo
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,451
2,542
0.394
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
158,364
Country Rank
2,930
Institution Rank : 48
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9873.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Cleiton Augusto Libardi](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e1/1097981.jpg)
Exercise
Skeletal Muscle
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,342
5,100
0.804
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
162,703
Country Rank
635
Institution Rank : 12
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/24533.jpg)
![Russia](/flags/ru.png)
![Светлана Филимонова](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/dc/1107897.jpg)
теория физической культуры
физическое воспитание
спорт
спортивная психология
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,176
3,277
0.531
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
162,940
Country Rank
642
Institution Rank : 13
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11472.jpg)
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
![Diederik J Opperman](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/3c/106326.jpg)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,167
5,248
0.851
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
164,901
Country Rank
645
Institution Rank : 19
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/6814.png)
![Russia](/flags/ru.png)
![Vladislav V. Bakayev](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
физическая культура
студенческий спорт
спорт высших достижений
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,093
3,844
0.631
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
176,992
Country Rank
720
Institution Rank : 92
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11498.jpg)
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
![Catherine Draper](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/45/105380.jpg)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,676
4,649
0.819
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
197,663
Country Rank
4,159
Institution Rank : 292
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9826.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Bruno Rodrigues](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/70/899499.jpg)
Fisiologia do Exercício
Fisiologia Cardiovascular
Fisiologia de Sistemas
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,066
3,141
0.620
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
198,169
Country Rank
4,180
Institution Rank : 109
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9875.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Hanna Karen Antunes](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Sports Science
Physical Exercise
Psychobiology
Sleep Deprivation
Cognition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,053
2,378
0.471
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
198,354
Country Rank
4,186
Institution Rank : 11
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9864.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Daniel Boullosa](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/95/888684.jpg)
Sport and Exercise Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,048
3,802
0.753
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
200,025
Country Rank
828
Institution Rank : 12
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/2095.png)
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
![Henry Pollard](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/36/4993071.jpg)
Sport Chiropractic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,006
1,466
0.293
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
206,704
Country Rank
4,458
Institution Rank : 11
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9950.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Adriano Lima Silva](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/40/839617.jpg)
sport science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,838
2,920
0.604
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
208,816
Country Rank
4,527
Institution Rank : 238
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9847.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Alessandro Moura Zagatto](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Physical Education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,787
3,146
0.657
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
216,020
Country Rank
4,741
Institution Rank : 30
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9885.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Danilo Sales Bocalini](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Fisiologia do exercício e desempenho humano
fisiologia e fisiopatologia cardiovascular
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,620
3,160
0.684
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
223,487
Country Rank
4,113
Institution Rank : 1
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/28255.png)
![India](/flags/in.png)
![Sudhir Kumar Sharma](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/a8/5007908.jpg)
Physical Education
Sports Science
Sports Management and Yogic Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,453
2,418
0.543
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
225,479
Country Rank
5,074
Institution Rank : 60
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9849.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Celi Nelza Zulke Taffarel](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/94/895391.jpg)
esporte
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,412
1,806
0.409
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
232,741
Country Rank
1,052
Institution Rank : 13
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/8116.png)
![Russia](/flags/ru.png)
![Mikhail Dmitriyevich Kudryavtsev](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/37/1097979.jpg)
physical culture
sport
healthy lifestyle
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,263
2,224
0.522
Emerson Franchini
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,916
14,922
0.576
Sports Science
Sports Physiology
Sports Performance
Exercise Physiology
Combat Sports
Eduardo Cadore
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,191
9,714
0.685
Martim Bottaro
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,462
6,020
0.525
strength training
exercise physiology
resistance exercise
physical education
Dawit Albieiro Pinheiro Gonçalves *
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,437
6,311
0.552
Skeletal muscle
running exercise
strength
protein metabolism
molecular biology
Александр Болотин
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,433
4,155
0.493
теория и методика физической культуры
Fabricio Boscolo Del Vecchio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,215
4,363
0.605
Sports Science
Health
Physical Education
Sports Training
Combat Sports
Sebastião Gobbi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,190
2,375
0.330
Physical Education
Exercise
Health
Juarez Vieira Do Nascimento
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,002
3,889
0.555
Sport Pedagogy
Physical Education
Teacher Education
Coach Education
Professional Development
Lisa Micklesfield
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,645
4,319
0.650
Physical activity
bone health
body composition
metabolic disease
Claudio Alexandre Gobatto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,451
2,542
0.394
Fisiologia do Exercício - Treinamento Desportivo
Cleiton Augusto Libardi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,342
5,100
0.804
Exercise
Skeletal Muscle
Светлана Филимонова
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,176
3,277
0.531
теория физической культуры
физическое воспитание
спорт
спортивная психология
Diederik J Opperman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,167
5,248
0.851
Vladislav V. Bakayev
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,093
3,844
0.631
физическая культура
студенческий спорт
спорт высших достижений
Catherine Draper
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,676
4,649
0.819
Bruno Rodrigues
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,066
3,141
0.620
Fisiologia do Exercício
Fisiologia Cardiovascular
Fisiologia de Sistemas
Hanna Karen Antunes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,053
2,378
0.471
Sports Science
Physical Exercise
Psychobiology
Sleep Deprivation
Cognition
Daniel Boullosa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,048
3,802
0.753
Sport and Exercise Science
Henry Pollard
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,006
1,466
0.293
Adriano Lima Silva
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,838
2,920
0.604
Alessandro Moura Zagatto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,787
3,146
0.657
Danilo Sales Bocalini
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,620
3,160
0.684
Fisiologia do exercício e desempenho humano
fisiologia e fisiopatologia cardiovascular
Sudhir Kumar Sharma
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,453
2,418
0.543
Physical Education
Sports Science
Sports Management and Yogic Science
Celi Nelza Zulke Taffarel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,412
1,806
0.409
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Kudryavtsev
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,263
2,224
0.522
physical culture
sport
healthy lifestyle