Publications
Technical–tactical diagnosis (技术战术诊断)
[1] Dong, R., Chen, R., Zhang, S., Sansone, P., Mateus, N., & Liu, H. (2025). Beyond the box score: Clustering offensive play types to reveal game styles in professional basketball. Journal of Sports Sciences.
[2] Qiu, M., Zhang, S., Yi, Q., Zhou, C., & Zhang, M. (2024). The influence of “momentum” on the game outcome while controlling for game types in basketball. Frontiers in Psychology.
[3] Zhong, Y., Zhang, S., Yi, Q., & Ruano, M. Á. G. (2024). The influence of meteorological factors on the technical performance of football teams during matches. Biology of Sport.
[4] Wang, X., Zhang, S., Gasperi, L., Robertson, S., & Ruano, M. A. G. (2023). Rest or rust? complex influence of schedule congestion on the home advantage in the National Basketball Association. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals.
[5] Lu, P., Zhang, S., Ding, J., Wang, X., & Gomez, M. A. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on match performances in the National Basketball Association. Frontiers in Psychology.
[6] Kong, L., Zhang, T., Zhou, C., Gomez, M. A., Hu, Y., & Zhang, S. (2022). The evaluation of playing styles integrating with contextual variables in professional soccer. Frontiers in Psychology.
[7] Wang, X., Han, B., Zhang, S., Zhang, L., Lorenzo Calvo, A., & Gomez, M. Á. (2021). The differences in the performance profiles between native and foreign players in the Chinese Basketball Association. Frontiers in Psychology.
[8] Gong, B., Cui, Y., Zhang, S., Zhou, C., Yi, Q., & Gómez-Ruano, M. Á. (2021). Impact of technical and physical key performance indicators on ball possession in the Chinese Super League. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport.
[9] Yi, Q., Zhang, S., Fang, W., & Gómez-Ruano, M. Á. (2021). Modeling the keys to team’s success in the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association. Frontiers in Psychology.
[10] Dong, R., Lian, B., Zhang, S., Zhang, M., Huang, S. Z., & O’Donoghue, P. (2021). Addressing opposition quality in basketball performance evaluation. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport.
[11] Yang, J., Wu, C., Zhou, C., Zhang, S., Leicht, A. S., & Gomez, M. Á. (2021). Influence of match congestion on performances in the National Basketball Association. Frontiers in Psychology.
[12] Zhai, Z., Guo, Y., Zhang, S., Li, Y., & Liu, H. (2020). Explaining positional differences of performance profiles for the elite female basketball players. Frontiers in Psychology.
[13] 张绍良, 董芮, 王星, 张铭鑫, & 崔一雄. (2020). 基于分位数回归模型的高水平篮球比赛制胜因素探析——以2019 FIBA男子篮球世界杯为例. 体育学刊.
[14] Gómez, M. Á., Medina, R., Leicht, A. S., Zhang, S., & Vaquera, A. (2020). The performance evolution of match play styles in the Spanish Professional Basketball League. Applied Sciences.
[15] Zhai, Z., Guo, Y., Li, Y., Zhang, S., & Liu, H. (2020). The regional differences in game-play styles considering playing position in the FIBA female continental basketball competitions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
[16] Zhang, S., Gomez, M. Á., Yi, Q., Dong, R., Leicht, A., & Lorenzo, A. (2020). Modelling the relationship between match outcome and match performances during the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup: A quantile regression analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
[17] Yi, Q., Gómez-Ruano, M.-Á., Liu, H., Zhang, S., Gao, B., Wunderlich, F., & Memmert, D. (2020). Evaluation of the technical performance of football players in the UEFA champions league. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
[18] Zhang, S., Lorenzo, A., Zhou, C., Cui, Y., Gonçalves, B., & Angel Gómez, M. (2019). Performance profiles and opposition interaction during game-play in elite basketball: evidences from National Basketball Association. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport.
[19] Zhang, S., Lorenzo, A., Woods, C. T., Leicht, A. S., & Gomez, M. A. (2019). Evolution of game-play characteristics within-season for the National Basketball Association. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching.
[20] Zhou, C., Zhang, S., Lorenzo Calvo, A., & Cui, Y. (2018). Chinese soccer association super league, 2012–2017: key performance indicators in balance games. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport.
[21] Zhang, S., Lorenzo, A., Gómez, M. A., Mateus, N., Gonçalves, B., & Sampaio, J. (2018). Clustering performances in the NBA according to players’ anthropometric attributes and playing experience. Journal of Sports Sciences.
[22] Zhang, S., Lorenzo, A., Gómez, M. A., Liu, H., Gonçalves, B., & Sampaio, J. (2017). Players’ technical and physical performance profiles and game-to-game variation in NBA. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport.
Monitoring training load (运动负荷监控)
[1] Zhang, S., Li, M., Qin, S. Xing, W., Zhai, Z., & Wang, X. (2025). Tracking key metrics: fluctuations in external and internal load across game quarters in collegiate basketball players. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation.
[2] Zhang, S.，Li, M., G, L., Ferioli, D., Sansone, P., & Gomez, M. (2025). Integrating subjective assessments and wearable-derived metrics: decoding in-game load-performance relationships in collegiate basketball players. The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness.
[3] Zhai, Z., Li, L., Chen, J., & Zhang, S. (2025). Seasonal dynamics of stress perception and coping strategies among Chinese elite basketball referees. Journal of Sports Sciences.
[4] Zhang, S., Li, M., Chen, L., Wang, X., Lorenzo, A., Conte, D., & Scanlan, A. T. (2025). Tracking what truly matters: the contribution of game load, recovery, and well-being to basketball performance. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.
[5] Sansone, P., Fortes, L. d. S., Caparros, T., Zhang, S., Tessitore, A., & Conte, D. (2025). Breaking down the 3 × 3 basketball game: how tournament phase, game outcome, and final score margin impact physiological, perceptual, and mental demands. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.
[6] Sansone, P., Rago, V., Alonso-Perez-Chao, E., Zhang, S., & Conte, D. (2025). Physical demands and acute neuromuscular responses across a single-day 3 × 3 male basketball tournament. Sensors.
[7] Alonso, E., Miranda, N., Zhang, S., Sosa, C., Trapero, J., Lorenzo, J., & Lorenzo, A. (2020). Peak Match Demands in Young Basketball Players: Approach and Applications. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
[8] Trapero, J., Sosa Marín, C., Zhang, S., Portes, R., Ruano, M., Bonal Sanchez, J., Saiz, S., & Lorenzo Calvo, A. (2020). Comparison of the movement characteristics based on position-specific between semi-elite and elite basketball players. Revista de Psicología del Deporte.
[9] Cui, Y., Liu, F., Bao, D., Liu, H., Zhang, S., & Gómez, M. Á. (2019). Key anthropometric and physical determinants for different playing positions during National Basketball Association draft combine test. Frontiers in Psychology.
[10] Ordóñez, A. F., Polo, B., Lorenzo, A., & Zhang, S. (2019). Effects of a school physical activity intervention in pre-adolescents. Apunts. Educación Física y Deportes
Spatio-temporal data mining (时空数据挖掘)
[1] Shao, J., Wang, X., Konstantinos, P., Aaron, S., Zhang, S. (2025). Hoop-MSSL: Multitask self-supervised representation learning on basketball spatiotemporal data. Intelligent Sports and Health.
[2] Jiao, F., Gong, B., Cao, R., Zhang, S., Gómez Ruano, M. Á., & Cui, Y. (2025). Using massive spatialtemporal data to analyse NBA match performance under different possession outcomes. Intelligent Sports and Health.
[3] Wang, X., Tang, Z., Shao, J., Robertson, S., Gómez, M. Á., & Zhang, S. (2024). HoopTransformer: advancing NBA offensive play recognition with self-supervised learning from player trajectories. Sports Medicine.
[4] Tang, Z., Wang, X., & Zhang, S. (2023). Clustering football game situations via deep representation learning. In Statsbomb conference 2023.
Systematic review (系统综述评论)
[1] Gu, L., Wang, W., Plakias, S., & Zhang, S. (2025). Playing style identification in team sports: A systematic review from statistical dimensionality reduction to unsupervised machine learning. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching.
[2] Li, M., Wang, X., & Zhang, S. (2024). The effect of video assistant referee (VAR) on match performance in elite football: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology.
[3] 易清, 黎涌明, 张铭鑫, 崔一雄, 刘天彪, 张绍良, … & 刘鸿优. (2022). 运动表现分析：过去、现在与未来. 上海体育学院学报.
[4] 刘鸿优, 崔一雄, & 张绍良. (2016). 运动表现分析的发展及展望. 体育学刊.