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ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Relative Age Effect is Modulated by Playing Position but is Not Related to Competitive Success in Elite Under-19 Handball Athletes.

Fabiano S Fonseca, Lucas S Figueiredo, Petrus Gantois, Dalton de Lima-Junior, Leonardo S Fortes

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Article in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Fabiano S FonsecaDepartment of Physical Education, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife 52171-900, Brazil. dr.fsfonseca@gmail.com.
Lucas S FigueiredoDepartment of Physical Education, Faculdade de Ensino de Minas Gerais (FACEMG), Belo Horizonte 31515-000, Brazil. savassi88@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-5853-4978
Petrus GantoisAssociated Graduate Program in Physical Education, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa 58051-900, Brazil. pgm.gantois@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-1995-2103
Dalton de Lima-JuniorGraduate Program in Physical Education, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife 50670-901, Brazil. limajunior.dalton@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1542-604X
Leonardo S FortesDepartment of Physical Education, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa 58051-900, Brazil. leodesousafortes@hotmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to verify the occurrence of the relative age effect (RAE) in male elite young handball athletes according to the playing position and its association with team performance in a World Championship. Data from 383 handball athletes from 24 countries who participated in the 7

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athlete developmenthandballrelative age effecttalent identificationyouth sport

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PMID31010139
PMCPMC6524358

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