| Abuse, intimidation and violence as aspects of managerial control in professional soccer in Britain and Ireland S Kelly, I Waddington International review for the sociology of sport 41 (2), 147-164, 2006 | 128 | 2006 |
| Understanding the role of the football manager in Britain and Ireland: A Weberian approach S Kelly European Sport Management Quarterly 8 (4), 399-419, 2008 | 112 | 2008 |
| Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective Y Chen, C Buggy, S Kelly Sports medicine-open 5 (1), 15, 2019 | 59 | 2019 |
| Performance management: A systematic review of processes in elite sport and other performance domains C Molan, S Kelly, R Arnold, J Matthews Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 31 (1), 87-104, 2019 | 53 | 2019 |
| Managers, directors and trust in professional football S Kelly, J Harris Sport in Society 13 (3), 489-502, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Injuries in elite‐level women’s football—a two‐year prospective study in the Irish Women’s National League D Horan, C Blake, M Hägglund, S Kelly, M Roe, E Delahunt Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports 32 (1), 177-190, 2022 | 33 | 2022 |
| Coach decision-making in Futsal: from preparation to competition J Almeida, H Sarmento, S Kelly, B Travassos International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport 19 (5), 711-723, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
| ‘Trust me I am a Football Agent’. The discursive practices of the players’ agents in (un) professional football S Kelly, D Chatziefstathiou Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance, 80-94, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| The role of the professional football manager S Kelly Routledge, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| Injury incidence rates in women’s football: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective injury surveillance studies D Horan, F Büttner, C Blake, M Hägglund, S Kelly, E Delahunt British journal of sports medicine 57 (8), 471-480, 2023 | 25 | 2023 |
| The migration of Irish professional footballers S Kelly Football and Migration: Perspectives, Places, Players, 76, 2014 | 21* | 2014 |
| Phenomenal decision-making in elite soccer: making the unseen seen E Gleeson, S Kelly Science and Medicine in Football 4 (1), 1-9, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| An exploration of performance management processes used within Olympic sport programmes C Molan, R Arnold, S Kelly, E Toomey, J Matthews Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 34 (4), 713-733, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Pedagogy, game intelligence & critical thinking: the future of Irish soccer? S Kelly New Perspectives on Association Football in Irish History, 148-169, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Coaching and coach education in Gaelic games: A baseline report P Horgan, R Bowles, J Considine, P Donnelly, W Harmon, H Harrison, ... Gaelic Games Association, 1-74, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Returning home: the return of Irish-born football migrants to Ireland’s football leagues and their cultural re-adaption, 1945–2010 C Curran, S Kelly Irish Studies Review 26 (2), 181-198, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Frequency of self-reported concussion amongst professional and semi-professional footballers in Ireland during the 2014 season: a cross-sectional study N Coffey, M Lawless, S Kelly, C Buggy Sports Medicine-Open 4, 1-8, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| Coaching and coach education in the football association of Ireland N O’Regan, S Kelly International Sport Coaching Journal 5 (2), 183-191, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| Developing politically astute football coaches: An evolving framework for coach learning and coaching research P Potrac, E Hall, M McCutcheon, C Morgan, S Kelly, P Horgan, ... Coach Education in Football, 15-28, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Putting the player first: A method to analyse and develop expert players performance in professional soccer E Gleeson, S Kelly Journal of sports sciences 39 (11), 1223-1235, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
