Sports activities during the Covid 19 pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The sports industry has been one of the most negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This bibliometric analysis aims to analyze the characteristics of the literature on sports activities during COVID-19 published in the Scopus database. Year of publication, type of publication, publication stage, language, country, institution, scientific source, author, and keywords are used as parameters in the analysis of sports activities and Covid-19. A thorough examination of 1480 documents from 2020 to 2023 (as of June 23, 2022) revealed four were issued and 1476 were analysed. According to the findings, the most publications occurred in 2021, with 805 documents. United States became the most active country with a total of 302 documents. With 160 documents, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health was the most productive scientific source. The most common type of article documents (n = 1,116, 75,61%) Publication status: final (n = 1374, 93.08%). Most types of sources are journals (n = 1,449, 98.17%). There is a wide gap in the productivity of publications in the field of sports activities during the COVID-19 pandemic between countries with strong and large sports traditions and countries with developing sports traditions.

Global trends and future prospects of COVID-19 and physical activity: Bibliometric analysis

“…The studies of Ammar et al (2020), Chen et al (2020), and Brooks et al (2020) were still observed among the most cited studies in the area. [35–37,39,40]…”

“…The results of the study show accordance with other studies. [36][37][38][39] In spite of the fact that China was the country where the pandemic first emerged with high number of cases and deaths and ranked first in the number of publications in bibliometric analyses in the WoS, PubMed, and Scopus databases, [62] China was only at the fourth place in the list of the top 9 most productive countries. One of the reasons for this result might be the fact that most of the researchers were diverted toward areas such as the prevention of coronavirus, drug therapy, vaccines, and critical care.…”

“…The studies of Ammar et al (2020), Chen et al (2020), and Brooks et al (2020) were still observed among the most cited studies in the area. [35][36][37]39,40] The study titled "Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement on Eating Behavior and Physical Activity: Results of the Chen et al [18] 2020 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): The need to maintain regular physical activity while taking precautions.…”

“…Bibliometric studies conducted during COVID-19 period exhibited that the most productive countries were USA, UK, Italy, [35–40] institutions were Temple, Anglia Ruskin universities, Federal University of Santa Maria, [36] and Harvard Medical School. [40] Another finding presented by these studies showed that the most cited authors were Ammar (2020); Stanton (2020); Chen (2020); and Di Renzo’ (2020).…”

“…[2,[30][31][32] Especially due to their contributions to facilitating the follow-up of the accumulated evidence in the area and reducing prejudgments, systematic reviews are preferred by researchers and make significant contributions to the relevant area. [33,34] Bibliometric studies conducted during COVID-19 period exhibited that the most productive countries were USA, UK, Italy, [35][36][37][38][39][40] institutions were Temple, Anglia Ruskin universities, Federal University of Santa Maria, [36] and Harvard Medical School. [40] Another finding presented by these studies showed that the most cited authors were Ammar (2020); Stanton (2020); Chen (2020); and Di Renzo' (2020).…”