Physical Activity for Health Publications

Volf K.; Kelly L.; Van Hoye A.; García Bengoechea E.; MacPhail A.; Woods C.B. (2023). Health Research Policy And Systems, 21 (1).

Walsh, E.H., Herring, M.P. & McMahon, J. Exploring adolescents’ perspectives on and experiences with post-primary school-based suicide prevention: a meta-ethnography protocol. Syst Rev 12, 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-02166-1

Murphy, J., Mansergh, F., O’Donoghue, G. et al. Factors related to the implementation and scale-up of physical activity interventions in Ireland: a qualitative study with policy makers, funders, researchers and practitioners. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 20, 16 (2023).

Murtagh, E. M., Calderón, A., Scanlon, D., & MacPhail, A. (2023). Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature. European Physical Education Review, 29(3), 369–388. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336X231155793

Laird E.; Herring M.P.; Carson B.P.; Woods C.B.; Walsh C.; Kenny R.A.; Rasmussen C.L. (2023). Psychiatry research, 326.

Clifford A, Byrne S, Ni Bhriain O, Cheung P, Sheikhi A, Woods C, O'Neill D, Gowran R, Glynn L, Moss H, Louw Q, Thebane L, Coote S, Salsberg J. Preliminary findings from the early phases of the Music and Movement for Health study: the feasibility of an arts-based health programme for older adults. Rural and Remote Health 2023; 23: 8142. https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH8142

In 2023, PAfH published 61 peer-reviewed articles (3.5% of all articles published at UL), which were cited 161 times during 2023 (year of publication). These articles had a field-weighted citation impact of 1.71 compared to 1.21 for UL; 18% of these articles were in Top 10% Citation Percentiles; 59% of these were published in Q1 journals based on CiteScore; 36.8% of these were published in Top 10% Journals based on CiteScore Percentile.

Jago R, Salway R, House D, Beets M, Lubans DR, Woods C and de Vocht F (2023) Rethinking children’s physical activity interventions at school: A new context-specific approach. Front. Public Health 11:1149883. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1149883

Nibal Khalil, Ahmad Aljanazrah, Ghadeer Hamed & Elaine M. Murtagh (2023) Teacher educators’ perspectives on gender responsive pedagogy in higher education, Irish Educational Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2023.2174575

Rocliffe, P., O’Keeffe, B., Walsh, L. et al. The Impact of Typical School Provision of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sports on Adolescent Physical Activity Behaviors: A Systematic Literature Review. Adolescent Res Rev 8, 359–385 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-022-00200-w