Efficacy of exercise interventions in injury prevention for track and field athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Kalani Weerasinghe, Ranil Jayawardena, Andrew P. Hills

Open source

DOI: 10.1186/s13102-025-01442-6
Published: 12
Container: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
Publisher: Not recorded
Open access: yes

Credibility signals

uncertain Score 53/100 under policy 1.0.0. This is a metadata assessment, not a judgment of the paper's conclusions.

Show all credibility signals

cautionDOI registered: No matching Crossref record was present in this response. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
cautionDOI resolves: No matching Crossref record was present in this response. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
supportingDirectory of Open Access Journals: A matching record was returned by DOAJ. Source: DOAJ; license: CC0
not scoredMEDLINE indexed: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredOpenAlex core source: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredKnown publisher allow-list: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredROR affiliation: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredRetraction Watch retraction: No retraction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch expression of concern: No expression of concern notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch correction: No correction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch reinstatement: No reinstatement notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
supportingOpen access status: Normalized open-access status: open. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer
not scoredPublication license: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication version: A publication version was supplied but is not scored. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer
cautionMetadata completeness: 5 of 6 scored descriptive metadata groups are present; missing fields increase uncertainty. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer

Cite this work

BibTeX

@article{allodium:10.1186/s13102-025-01442-6,
  title = {Efficacy of exercise interventions in injury prevention for track and field athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials},
  author = {Kalani Weerasinghe and Ranil Jayawardena and Andrew P. Hills},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation},
  doi = {10.1186/s13102-025-01442-6},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-025-01442-6}
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Efficacy of exercise interventions in injury prevention for track and field athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
AU  - Kalani Weerasinghe
AU  - Ranil Jayawardena
AU  - Andrew P. Hills
PY  - 2025
JO  - BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
DO  - 10.1186/s13102-025-01442-6
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-025-01442-6
ER  -

APA

Weerasinghe, K., Jayawardena, R., & Hills, A. P. (2025). Efficacy of exercise interventions in injury prevention for track and field athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-025-01442-6

Source records

doaj · retrieved 2026-09-26T03:05:07.099Z