ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2019
From Paper to Podium: Quantifying the Translational Potential of Performance Nutrition Research.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- How Do Male Football Players Meet Dietary Recommendations? A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- From Metabolism to Medals: Contemporary Perspectives and Revisiting Carbohydrate Guidelines for Fueling Endurance Athletes during Exercise.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Review
- Nutrition Strategies to Promote Sleep in Elite Athletes: A Scoping Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Fueling Soccer Players: A Scoping Review and Audit of Literature Related to Soccer-Specific Guidelines for Carbohydrate Intake.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- What is a cycling race simulation anyway: a review on protocols to assess durability in cycling.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
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- A tale of be(com)ing a Sport Nutritionist: Reflexive insights from a researcher-practitioner entering the field.PloS one · 2025Article
- Nutrition and Golf Performance: A Systematic Scoping Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Article
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- Carbohydrate Oral Rinsing, Cycling Performance and Individual Complex Carbohydrate Taste Sensitivity.Nutrients · 2024Article
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- Bridging the gap: Evidence-based practice guidelines for sports nutritionists.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Review
- Biomarkers of post-match recovery in semi-professional and professional football (soccer).Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
- Exogenous Ketone Supplements in Athletic Contexts: Past, Present, and Future.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Sport nutrition is one of the fastest growing and evolving disciplines of sport and exercise science, demonstrated by a 4-fold increase in the number of research papers between 2012 and 2018. Indeed, the scope of contemporary nutrition-related research could range from discovery of novel nutrient-sensitive cell-signalling pathways to the assessment of the effects of sports drinks on exercise performance. For the sport nutrition practitioner, the goal is to translate innovations in research to develop and administer practical interventions that contribute to the delivery of winning performances. Accordingly, step one in the translation of research to practice should always be a well-structured critique of the translational potential of the existing scientific evidence. To this end, we present an operational framework (the "Paper-2-Podium Matrix") that provides a checklist of criteria for which to prompt the critical evaluation of performance nutrition-related research papers. In considering the (1) research context, (2) participant characteristics, (3) research design, (4) dietary and exercise controls, (5) validity and reliability of exercise performance tests, (6) data analytics, (7) feasibility of application, (8) risk/reward and (9) timing of the intervention, we aimed to provide a time-efficient framework to aid practitioners in their scientific appraisal of research. Ultimately, it is the combination of boldness of reform (i.e. innovations in research) and quality of execution (i.e. ease of administration of practical solutions) that is most likely to deliver the transition from paper to podium.
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