Journal of Expertise

The Journal of Expertise (JoE) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing original scholarship in the area of expertise and expert performance, including both basic and applied research. JoE focuses on human expertise in complex domains such as music, sports, games, medicine, and science; research that uses animal models to understand basic issues relevant to expertise may also be appropriate. Empirical work published in JoE may use experimental, psychometric, historiometric, behavioral genetic, neuroimaging, computational, or idiographic approaches. Review articles may be qualitative (narrative) or quantitative (meta-analytic). Published quarterly, JoE is fully online and open access.

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Features

Empirical reports describing basic and applied research on expertise
Brief reports, including replication attempts, or studies addressing questions of limited scope
Commentaries and replies concerning research reported in JoE
Book reviews summarizing and critiquing books relevant to expertise
Target articles addressing theoretical and methodological issues in expertise research

Journal Mission

JoE's mission is to provide researchers, practitioners, and the public with open access to scientific research on expertise and expert performance. Accordingly, JoE has no subscription or publication fees. JoE also hosts, free of charge, interactive media (e.g., videos, PowerPoint presentations) created by authors to disseminate findings of their research.

Recent Articles

A Model of Information Use During Anticipation in Striking Sports (MIDASS)

Oliver R. Runswick ^1,2,3, André Roca ¹, A. Mark Williams ⁴, and Jamie S. North ¹
¹St Mary’s University, UK, ²University of Chichester, UK, ³King’s College London, UK, ⁴The University of Utah, USA

Inter Sport Transfer: Experiences of High Performing Australian Adolescent Athletes

Rick Hayman ¹, Remco Polman ², and Erika Borkoles ³
¹Northumbria University, UK, ²Queensland University of Technology, AU, ³Griffith University, AU

Esport Expertise Benefits Perceptual-Cognitive Skill in (Traditional) Sport

Colm P. Murphy ¹, Andy Wakefield ¹, Phil D. J. Birch ², and Jamie S. North ¹
¹St Mary’s University, UK, ²University of Chichester, UK

Commentary on François Osiurak and Emanuelle Reynaud’s “The Elephant in the Room: What Matters Cognitively in Cumulative Technological Culture” (2019)

Alessandro Guida
Department of Psychology, Université Rennes, France

Considerations for Application of Skill Acquisition in Sport: An Example from Tennis

Sean Müller, Cody Fitzgerald, and John Brenton
Discipline of Exercise Science, Murdoch University, Australia

Influence of Expertise on the Visual Control Strategies of Athletes During Competitive Long Jumping

Chris McCosker ¹, Ian Renshaw ¹, Remco Polman ¹, Daniel Greenwood ², and Keith Davids ³
¹Queensland University of Technology, Australia, ²Human Performance Center, University of Memphis, USA, ³Center for Sports Engineering Research, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

K. Anders Ericsson (October 23, 1947 – June 17, 2020)

David Z. Hambrick¹ and Guillermo Campitelli²
¹Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, USA, ²Discipline of Psychology, Murdoch University, Australia

Fluid Intelligence is Key to Successful Cryptic Crossword Solving

Kathryn J. Friedlander and Philip A. Fine
School of Psychology, University of Buckingham, UK

It Ain’t What You Do—It’s the Way That You Do It: Is Optimizing Challenge Key in the Development of Super-Elite Batsmen?

Benjamin D. Jones¹, Lew Hardy ¹, Gavin Lawrence¹, Ludmila I. Kuncheva², Raphael Brandon³, Mo Bobat³, and Graham Thorpe³
¹Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance, Bangor University, ²School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, ³England and Wales Cricket Board, London, UK

Influence of Experts’ Domain-specific Knowledge on Risk Taking in Adversarial Situations

Philippe Chassy¹and Fernand Gobet²
¹University of Liverpool, ²London School of Economics and Political Science

Perceptual-motor Abilities Underlying Expertise in Esports

Matthew A. Pluss¹, Andrew R. Novak^1,2, Kyle J. M. Bennett^3,4, Derek Panchuk^5,6, Aaron J. Coutts¹, and Job Fransen¹
¹University of Technology Sydney, Australia, ²Rugby Australia, ³School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia, ⁴Centre for Athlete Development, Experience & Performance, Southern Cross University, Australia, ⁵Victoria University, Australia, ⁶Australian Institute of Sport, Australia

Poker as a Domain of Expertise

Jussi Palomäki¹, Michael Laakasuo¹, Benjamin Ultan Cowley^1,2, and Otto Lappi¹
¹Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, ²Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki

On the Empirical Substantiation of the Definition of “Deliberate Practice” (Ericsson et al., 1993) and “Deliberate Play” (Côté et al., 2007) in Youth Athletes

Arne Güllich, Laura Faß, Christina Gies, and Veronika Wald
University of Kaiserlautern

The Vanderbilt Holistic Processing Tests for Novel Objects: Validation in Novice Participants

Kao-Wei Chua¹and Isabel Gauthier²
¹New York University, ²Vanderbilt University

The Gaze Relational Index as a Measure of Visual Expertise

Andreas Gegenfurtner^1,2, Jean-Michel Boucheix³, Hans Gruber^4,5, Florian Hauser⁶, Erno Lehtinen^5,7, and Richard K. Lowe^3,8
¹University of Passau, ²Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, ³Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, ⁴University of Regensburg, ⁵University of Turku, ⁶Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, ⁷Vytautas Magnus University, ⁸Curtin University

Exploring the Impacts of Early Sport Specialization Among Québec’s Adolescent Hockey Players

Vincent Huard Pelletier and Jean Lemoyne
University of Québec at Trois-Rivieres

A Department of Methodology Can Coordinate Transdisciplinary Sport Science Support

Martyn Rothwell¹, Keith Davids², Joseph A. Stone¹, Mark O'Sullivan³, James Vaughan³, Daniel J. Newcombe⁴, and Rick Shuttleworth²
¹Academy of Sport and Physical Activity, Sheffield Hallam University, ²Centre for Sports Engineering Research, Sheffield Hallam University, ³AIK Football, ⁴Oxford Brookes University