Publications
Books
Vilar, L. (2012). Informational constraints on performance in futsal (indoor football). Lisbon: Lambert Academic Publishing.
Thesis
Vilar, L. (2008). Futebol: pressupostos para a conceptualização de um modelo específico de treino. Um estudo realizado com treinadores com certificado de nível IV. Dissertação de mestrado não publicada. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa.
Vilar, L. (2012). Informational constraints on attacker and defender performances in futsal. Dissertação de doutormamento não publicada. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa.
International book chapters
Button, C., Chow, J., Travassos, B., Vilar, L., Duarte, R., Araujo, D., & Davids, K. (in press). A nonlinear pedagogy for sports teams as social neurobiological systems: Can teams be taught to self-organize?
Passos, P., Araújo, D., Travassos, B., Vilar, L., & Duarte, R. (under review). Coordination due to functional synergies in team games. In K. Davids, R. Hristovski, D. Araújo, N. Balague, C. Button & P. Passos (Eds.), Complex Systems in Sport: Routledge.
Vilar, L., Torrents, C., Araújo, D., & Davids, K. (under review). Ecological Dynamics as a framework for notation analysis. In K. Davids, R. Hristovski, D. Araújo, N. Balague, C. Button & P. Passos (Eds.), Complex Systems in Sport: Routledge.
Paper published index in ISI with peer-review
Araujo, D., Travassos, B., & Vilar, L. (2010). Tactical skills are not verbal skills: A comment on Kannekens and collegues. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 3, 1086-1088. (IF = 0.55)
Corrêa, U., Vilar, L., Davids, K., & Renshaw, I. (in press). Informational constraints on the emergence of passing direction in the team sport of futsal. European Journal of Sport Science. (IF = 0.98)
Davids, K., Araújo, D., Vilar, L., Renshaw, I., & Pinder, R. (in press). An Ecological Dynamics approach to skill acquisition: Implications for development of talent in sport. Talent Development and Excelence.
Duarte, R., Araújo, D., Fernandes, O., Fonseca, C., Correia, V., Gazimba, V., Travassos, B., Esteves, P., Vilar, L., & Lopes, J. (2010). Capturing complex human behaviors in representative sports contexts with a single camera. Medicina, 46(6), 408-414. (IF = 0.51)
Esteves, P., Araújo, D., Esteves, C., Vilar, L., Davids, K., & Travassos, B. (in press). Interpersonal dynamics and relative positioning to scoring target of performers in one vs one sub-phases of team sports. Journal of Sports Sciences. (IF = 1.9)
Travassos, B., Araújo, D., McGarry, T., & Vilar, L. (2011). Interpersonal coordination and ball dynamics in futsal (indoor football). Human Movement Science, 30, 1245-1259. (IF = 2.0)
Travassos, B., Araújo, D., Davids, K., Vilar, L., Esteves, P., & Correia, V. (2012). Informational constraints shape emergent functional behaviours during performance of interceptive actions in team sports. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 13, 216-223. (IF = 2.2)
Travassos, B., Vilar, L., Duarte, R., Araújo, D., & Davids, K. (accepted). Increasing Uncertainty for Performers Improves Representative Design of Passing Practice Tasks in Team Sports. Journal of sports sciences. (IF = 1.9)
Vilar, L., Araújo, D., Davids, K., Correia, V., & Esteves, P. (accepted). Spatial-temporal constraints on decision-making during shooting performance in the team sport of futsal. Journal of Sports Sciences. (IF = 1.9)
Vilar, L., Araújo, D., Davids, K., Travassos, B., Duarte, R., & Parreira, J. (in press). Interpersonal coordination tendencies supporting the creation/ prevention of goal scoring opportunities in futsal. European Journal of Sports Sciences. doi: 10.1080/17461391.2012.725103. (IF = 0.98)
Vilar, L., Araújo, D., Davids, K., & Bar-Yam, Y. (accepted). Emergent pattern-forming dynamics in association football considered as complex social systems. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. (IF = 0.564)
Vilar, L., Araújo, D., Davids, K., & Button, C. (2012). The role of ecological dynamics in analysing performance in team sports. Sports Medicine, 42(1), 1-10. (IF = 5.1)
Vilar, L., Araújo, D., Davids, K., & Renshaw, I. (in press). The need for ‘representative task designs’ in evaluating efficacy of skills tests in sport: A comment on Russell, Benton and Kingsley (2010). Journal of sports sciences. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2012.679674. (IF = 1.9)
Vilar, L., Araújo, D., Davids, K., & Travassos, B. (2012). Constraints on competitive performance of attacker-defender dyads in team sports. Journal of Sports Sciences, 30(5), 459-469. (IF = 1.9)
Abstract in journal index in ISI with peer-review
Vilar, L., Araújo, D., Travassos, B., & Davids, K. (2010). Ball and goal location constrains decision making of team sports. Supplement to Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 13(6), 189. (IF = 2.5)
Vilar, L., Santos, L., Araújo, D., & Davids, K. (2011). Goalkeepers’ positioning can reduce the uncertain of penalty shot direction in association football. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 45(15), A12-A13. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2011-090606.40. (IF = 3.5)
Paper published in journal non-index in ISI with peer-review
Vilar, L., Castelo, J., & Araújo, D. (2010). Pressupostos para a conceptualização do exercício de treino de futebol. Um estudo realizado com treinadores com certificado de nível IV. Revista Gymnasium, 1(1), 121-142.
Vilar, L. (2003). O remate em futsal. Revista Training, 11, 14-16.