Table 6.
Top 20 highly cited documents.
| Ranking | Title | Journal | Citation | Yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circadian rhythms in sports performance - An update | Chronobiology International | 373 | 2005 |
| 2 | Sleep and Athletic Performance: The Effects of Sleep Loss on Exercise Performance, and Physiological and Cognitive Responses to Exercise | Sports Medicine | 366 | 2015 |
| 3 | Circadian Variation in sports performance | Sports Medicine | 343 | 1996 |
| 4 | The Effects of Sleep Extension on the Athletic Performance of Collegiate Basketball Players | Sleep | 302 | 2011 |
| 5 | Hypoleptinemia in women athletes: Absence of a diurnal rhythm with amenorrhea | Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism | 287 | 1997 |
| 6 | Current Status of Salivary Hormone Analysis | Clinical Chemistry | 244 | 2008 |
| 7 | The circadian rhythm of core temperature: Origin and some implications for exercise performance | Chronobiology International | 176 | 2005 |
| 8 | The thermophysiology of uncompensable heat stress - Physiological manipulations and individual characteristics | Sports Medicine | 176 | 2000 |
| 9 | Altered sleep-wake cycles and physical performance in athletes | Physiology & Behavior | 173 | 2007 |
| 10 | Circadian-rhythms and Athletic performance | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | 172 | 1985 |
| 11 | Sleep, circadian rhythms, and psychomotor vigilance | Clinics in Sports Medicine | 169 | 2005 |
| 12 | Circadian rhythm of wrist temperature in normal-living subjects A candidate of new index of the circadian system | Physiology & Behavior | 149 | 2008 |
| 13 | Investigation of morning-evening orientation in 6 countries using the preferences scale | Personality and Individual Differences | 147 | 2002 |
| 14 | Exercise, energy balance and the shift worker | Sports Medicine | 141 | 2008 |
| 15 | Relation between physical training and ambulatory blood pressure in stage-i hypertensive subjects - results of the harvest trial | Circulation | 128 | 1994 |
| 16 | Scheduled Exercise Phase Shifts the Circadian Clock in Skeletal Muscle | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | 127 | 2012 |
| 17 | Sleep, recovery, and performance: The new frontier in high-performance athletics | Neurologic Clinics | 127 | 2008 |
| 18 | Sleep, circadian rhythms, and athletic performance | Sleep Medicine Reviews | 123 | 2015 |
| 19 | Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroidal function in eumenorrheic and amenorrheic athletes | Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism | 123 | 1992 |
| 20 | Sleep habits in German athletes before important competitions or games | Journal of Sports Sciences | 119 | 2011 |