Author:
Chaabeni Amr,Kalai Amine,Slama Meryam,Ben Salah Frih Zohra,Jellad Anis
Abstract
AbstractBibliometric analysis is an increasingly popular method for assessing aspects of a specific field of research and identifying its emerging areas of interest. Although it has been increasingly used in sports medicine research to assess injuries, few studies have focused on soccer. The purpose of our study was to identify the 100 most-cited publications related to soccer injuries and conduct a thorough bibliometric mapping analysis to understand the research trends. Using the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Database and Bibliometrix R-package software, we identified 100 articles with 26,046 total citations (range = 146-945) published between 1990 and 2017. Most were published in theBritish Journal of Sports Medicine(32 articles) andAmerican Journal of Sports Medicine(31 articles), and most corresponding authors originated from Sweden. About half of the articles were descriptive or epidemiology studies using level-2 evidence. The main research topics were epidemiology (25 articles) and prevention (24 articles). Most focused on male and adult elite soccer players.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Reference22 articles.
1. Studying professional and recreational female footballers: A bibliometric exercise;Scand J Med Sci Sports,2022
2. International Federation of Association Football. FIFA big count 2006. Zürich: International Federation of Association Football, 2007.http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/bcoffsurv/bigcount.stats%20package_7024.pdf. Accessed 10 February 2023
3. Epidemiology of injuries in professional football: a systematic review and meta-analysis
4. Injury incidence and injury patterns in professional football: the UEFA injury study
5. Keeping your top players on the pitch: the key to football medicine at a professional level