| The role of psychological characteristics in facilitating the pathway to elite performance part 1: Identifying mental skills and behaviors Á MacNamara, A Button, D Collins The sport psychologist 24 (1), 52-73, 2010 | 642 | 2010 |
| Participant development in sport: An academic review R Bailey, P Ford, A MacNamara, G Pearce Sports Coach UK, 2010 | 431 | 2010 |
| The rocky road to the top: why talent needs trauma D Collins, Á MacNamara Sports medicine 42, 907-914, 2012 | 384 | 2012 |
| The role of psychological characteristics in facilitating the pathway to elite performance part 2: Examining environmental and stage-related differences in skills and behaviors Á MacNamara, A Button, D Collins The sport psychologist 24 (1), 74-96, 2010 | 377 | 2010 |
| Super champions, champions, and almosts: important differences and commonalities on the rocky road D Collins, Á MacNamara, N McCarthy Frontiers in psychology 6, 171615, 2016 | 212 | 2016 |
| The role of psychological characteristics in managing the transition to university Á MacNamara, D Collins Psychology of sport and exercise 11 (5), 353-362, 2010 | 177 | 2010 |
| Three Worlds: New directions in participant development in sport and physical activity D Collins, R Bailey, PA Ford, Á MacNamara, M Toms, G Pearce Sport, Education and Society 17 (2), 225-243, 2012 | 136 | 2012 |
| Negotiating transitions in musical development: The role of psychological characteristics of developing excellence Á MacNamara, P Holmes, D Collins Psychology of Music 36 (3), 335-352, 2008 | 135 | 2008 |
| The pathway to excellence: The role of psychological characteristics in negotiating the challenges of musical development A MacNamara, P Holmes, D Collins British Journal of Music Education 23 (3), 285-302, 2006 | 134 | 2006 |
| Talent development: linking the stakeholders to the process A Pankhurst, D Collins, Á Macnamara Journal of sports sciences 31 (4), 370-380, 2013 | 113 | 2013 |
| Development and initial validation of the psychological characteristics of developing excellence questionnaire Á Macnamara, D Collins Journal of sports sciences 29 (12), 1273-1286, 2011 | 109 | 2011 |
| Putting the bumps in the rocky road: Optimizing the pathway to excellence DJ Collins, A Macnamara, N McCarthy Frontiers in psychology 7, 213216, 2016 | 105 | 2016 |
| Do mental skills make champions? Examining the discriminant function of the psychological characteristics of developing excellence questionnaire A Macnamara, D Collins Journal of sports sciences 31 (7), 736-744, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| Research and practice in talent identification and development—some thoughts on the state of play D Collins, Á MacNamara, A Cruickshank Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 31 (3), 340-351, 2019 | 102 | 2019 |
| Promoting lifelong physical activity and high level performance: Realising an achievable aim for physical education A MacNamara, D Collins, R Bailey, M Toms, P Ford, G Pearce Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy 16 (3), 265-278, 2011 | 94 | 2011 |
| Profiling, exploiting, and countering psychological characteristics in talent identification and development Á MacNamara, D Collins The Sport Psychologist 29 (1), 73-81, 2015 | 83 | 2015 |
| Just let them play? Deliberate preparation as the most appropriate foundation for lifelong physical activity Á MacNamara, D Collins, S Giblin Frontiers in psychology 6, 160919, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| “It's your problem. Deal with it.” Performers' experiences of psychological challenges in music E Pecen, DJ Collins, Á MacNamara Frontiers in Psychology 8, 317085, 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
| Change of plans: an evaluation of the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of successful talent transfer R Collins, D Collins, Á MacNamara, MI Jones Journal of sports sciences 32 (17), 1621-1630, 2014 | 76 | 2014 |
| Learning from elite athletes’ experience of depression F Lebrun, À MacNamara, S Rodgers, D Collins Frontiers in psychology 9, 420197, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
