Topic · Sports Analytics and Performance
Most cited papers in Sports Analytics and Performance
What are the most cited papers in Sports Analytics and Performance?
The most cited paper in Sports Analytics and Performance is "Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search" (David Lawrence Silver, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison et al., 2016), with 16,121 citations. Next come "Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk" (4,118) and "A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods" (3,032).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 426 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search David Lawrence Silver, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison et al. · Nature | 26 Jan 2016 | 16,121 |
| 2 | Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk Adam J. Berinsky, Gregory A. Huber, Gabriel Lenz · Political Analysis | 2012 | 4,118 |
| 3 | A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods Cameron Browne, Edward J. Powley, Daniel Whitehouse et al. · IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games | 3 Feb 2012 | 3,032 |
| 4 | Learning to predict by the methods of temporal differences Richard S. Sutton · Machine Learning | Aug 1988 | 2,826 |
| 5 | Games with Incomplete Information Played by “Bayesian” Players, I–III: Part I. The Basic Model John C. Harsanyi · Management Science | Dec 2004 | 2,173 |
| 6 | Expert and Novice Performance in Solving Physics Problems Jill Larkin, John McDermott, Dorothea P. Simon et al. · Science | 20 Jun 1980 | 2,127 |
| 7 | Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences Uri Gneezy, Muriel Niederle, Aldo Rustichini · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 2003 | 2,052 |
| 8 | Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians Claudia Dale Goldin, Cecilia Elena Rouse · American Economic Review | Sep 2000 | 1,792 |
| 9 | The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences Thomas Gilovich, Robert P. Vallone, Amos Tversky · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1985 | 1,701 |
| 10 | Reversals of preference between bids and choices in gambling decisions. Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic · Journal of Experimental Psychology | Jul 1971 | 1,587 |
| 11 | Depth-first iterative-deepening Richard E. Korf · Artificial Intelligence | Sep 1985 | 1,566 |
| 12 | On the Shape of the Probability Weighting Function Richard Gonzalez, George Wu · Cognitive Psychology | Feb 1999 | 1,436 |
| 13 | Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics Colin F. Camerer, Anna Dreber, Eskil Forsell et al. · Science | 3 Mar 2016 | 1,403 |
| 14 | Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search Rémi Coulom · Lecture notes in computer science | 2007 | 1,279 |
| 15 | Knowledge, knerves and know‐how: The role of explicit versus implicit knowledge in the breakdown of a complex motor skill under pressure Rich S.W. Masters · British Journal of Psychology | Aug 1992 | 1,203 |
| 16 | Generalizability in qualitative research: misunderstandings, opportunities and recommendations for the sport and exercise sciences Brett M. Smith · Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health | 23 Oct 2017 | 1,194 |
| 17 | Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953–1999 Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn · Political Analysis | 2002 | 1,187 |
| 18 | Learning Efficient Classification Procedures and Their Application to Chess End Games J. R. Quinlan · Machine Learning | 1983 | 1,107 |
| 19 | An analysis of alpha-beta pruning Donald E. Knuth, Ronald W. Moore · Artificial Intelligence | 1975 | 1,005 |
| 20 | The use of performance indicators in performance analysis Mike D. Hughes, Roger Bartlett · Journal of Sports Sciences | 2002 | 985 |
| 21 | Hedging one's evolutionary bets, revisited Tom Philippi, Jon Seger · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Feb 1989 | 902 |
| 22 | Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results Raphael Silberzahn et al. · Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science | 23 Aug 2018 | 874 |
| 23 | Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, Karim R. Lakhani · Management Science | 2 Apr 2011 | 858 |
| 24 | Physiology of Small-Sided Games Training in Football Stephen V Hill-Haas, BRIAN T. DAWSON, Franco Milko Impellizzeri et al. · Sports Medicine | 26 Feb 2011 | 850 |
| 25 | Deep Q-learning From Demonstrations Todd Hester, Matej Vecerík, Olivier Pietquin et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | 29 Apr 2018 | 840 |
| 26 | Prediction Markets Justin J. Wolfers, Eric W. Zitzewitz · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2004 | 839 |
| 27 | DeepStack: Expert-level artificial intelligence in heads-up no-limit poker Matej Moravčík, Martin Schmid, NEIL R. BURCH et al. · Science | 2 Mar 2017 | 813 |
| 28 | Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flaneurs Richard Giulianotti · Journal of Sport and Social Issues | Feb 2002 | 777 |
| 29 | Gender and Competition at a Young Age Uri Gneezy, Aldo Rustichini · American Economic Review | Apr 2004 | 774 |
| 30 | Notes on the measurement of inequality Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, Amartya Kumar Sen, David A. Starrett · Journal of Economic Theory | Apr 1973 | 746 |
| 31 | The Conceptualisation and Measurement of Mega Sport Event Legacies Holger Preuß · Journal of Sport & Tourism | Nov 2007 | 706 |
| 32 | Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior* David Card, Gordon B. Dahl · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 2011 | 696 |
| 33 | Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators Daniel L. L. Wann, Merrill J. Melnick, Gordon Russell et al. | 10 Jan 2001 | 696 |
| 34 | The Economic Design of Sporting Contests Stefan Szymanski · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 2010 | 694 |
| 35 | Unifying count-based exploration and intrinsic motivation Marc G. Bellemare, Sriram Srinivasan, Georg Ostrovski et al. · Neural Information Processing Systems | 5 Dec 2016 | 670 |
| 36 | Obtaining calibrated probability estimates from decision trees and naive Bayesian classifiers Bianca Zadrozny, Charles Elkan | 2001 | 652 |
| 37 | Anomalies: Parimutuel Betting Markets: Racetracks and Lotteries Richard H. Thaler, William T. Ziemba · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 1988 | 638 |
| 38 | Are expert athletes ‘expert’ in the cognitive laboratory? A meta‐analytic review of cognition and sport expertise Michelle W. Voss, Arthur F. Kramer, Chandramallika Basak et al. · Applied Cognitive Psychology | 17 Jun 2009 | 638 |
| 39 | Status Evolution and Competition: Theory and Evidence Marvin Washington, Edward J. Zajac · Academy of Management Journal | Apr 2005 | 632 |
| 40 | Templates in Chess Memory: A Mechanism for Recalling Several Boards Fernand R. Gobet, Herbert A. Simon · Cognitive Psychology | Aug 1996 | 627 |
| 41 | Visual search, anticipation and expertise in soccer goalkeepers Geert J.P. Savelsbergh, A. Mark Williams, John Van Der Kamp et al. · Journal of Sports Sciences | 2002 | 619 |
| 42 | Big data and tactical analysis in elite soccer: future challenges and opportunities for sports science Robert Rein, Daniel Memmert · SpringerPlus | 24 Aug 2016 | 612 |
| 43 | Detecting Common Method Bias Miguel Ignacio Aguirre-Urreta, Jiang Hu · ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems | 6 May 2019 | 605 |
| 44 | The bright-side and the dark-side of CEO personality: Examining core self-evaluations, narcissism, transformational leadership, and strategic influence. Christian J. Resick, Daniel S. Whitman, Steven M. Weingarden et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology | Nov 2009 | 605 |
| 45 | Match analysis in football: a systematic review Hugo Sarmento, Rui Marcelino, M. Teresa Anguera et al. · Journal of Sports Sciences | May 2014 | 602 |
| 46 | Demand for Sport Jeff Borland · Oxford Review of Economic Policy | Dec 2003 | 601 |
| 47 | Machine learning and AI in marketing – Connecting computing power to human insights Liye Ma, Baohong Sun · International Journal of Research in Marketing | 21 Aug 2020 | 596 |
| 48 | Positive Deviance among Athletes: The Implications of Overconformity to the Sport Ethic Robert H. Hughes, Jay J. Coakley · Sociology of Sport Journal | Dec 1991 | 589 |
| 49 | The relative age effect in youth soccer across Europe Werner F Helsen, Jan Van Winckel, ANDREW MARK WILLIAMS · Journal of Sports Sciences | Jun 2005 | 580 |
| 50 | The Home Advantage In Sport Competitions: A Literature Review Kerry S. Courneya, Albert V. Carron · Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology | Mar 1992 | 569 |
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