Sports activities during the Covid 19 pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis

Davi Sofyan; Khairul Hafezad  Abdullah; Abdullah Yavuz  Akinci; Ibraheem Musa  Oluwatoyin; Jeferson Roberto  Rojo; Suriyan  Shompong; Jem Cloyd M.  Tanucan

doi:10.56916/jmsss.v1i1.76

Authors

Davi Sofyan Department of Physical Education, Universitas Majalengka, Indonesia
Khairul Hafezad Abdullah Social Security Management Center of Excellence, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Abdullah Yavuz Akinci Department of Sports Management, Sports Science Faculty, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey
Ibraheem Musa Oluwatoyin Department of Human Kinetic Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Jeferson Roberto Rojo Department of Physical Education, Universidade Estadual de Maringadisabled, Maringa, Brazil
Suriyan Shompong Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Jem Cloyd M. Tanucan Cebu Normal University, Cebu, Philippines

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56916/jmsss.v1i1.76

Keywords:

Sport activities, Covid-19, Scopus, 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.

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