Mapping the field: A bibliometric analysis of women's football research trends and future directions

Autor: Nafih Cherappurath, Perumbalath Shamshadali, Masilamani Elayaraja, Dilshith Azeezul Kabeer KI
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Apunts Sports Medicine, Vol 59, Iss 223, Pp 100448- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-5069
DOI: 10.1016/j.apunsm.2024.100448
Popis: Women's football is a fast-growing sport with a significant global presence. There has been no bibliometric analysis in the field of women's football, which could help figure out the importance of this study area and identify knowledge gaps. Therefore, this study reviews the scholarly literature on women's football using bibliometric data from Scopus from 1984 to February 2024. Using multiple performance and science mapping techniques, we map the research landscape, highlighting key contributors and trends in women's football literature. The foremost contributors are the United States, Leeds Beckett University, the European Regional Development Fund (European Commission), and the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Based on the analysis, we predict that the keywords may be relevant to women's football research in the future. In the concluding section, we delineate the study's limitations and propose avenues for future research expansion.
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