Bibliometric Analysis of The Olympic Games and Doping Research

Abstract

Doping controls are carried out in all international mega sports organizations such as the Olympic Games to determine the use of doping. Prevention of doping use is carried out by the "Anti-doping Organization", WADA, which has an international participation structure. However, issues such as use of doping, doping agents, and using methods attract the attention of researchers. The research aims to analyze all scientific publications between 1980 and 2021 and to make a holistic analysis on doping using data obtained within the scope of the study, information graphics and explanatory bibliometric networks were created. This research is a kind of qualitative research method conducted to determine the researches between the Olympics and doping studies. According to the results, most used keywords were found to be "doping", "Olympic Games" and "doping control". There are a total of 96 journals evaluated within the scope of our study. “British Journal of Sports Medicine”, “Deutsche Zeitschrift Für Sportmedizin” and “International Journal of The History of Sport” are most cited journals. Top publishing institutes are “University of Western Australia”, “German Sport University Cologne” and “National and Kapodistrian University of Athens”. Finally, and in turn, top broadcasting countries are USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland. According to the results of the research, most of the research on doping focuses on chemical analysis of substances used as doping. It may be useful to conduct research on the physical, social and moral reasons and possible legal consequences of doping use and its effect on sports.

Holistic Analysis of Recreation and Leisure Science in Sports

“…To this end, the publication years of the researches, reference change by years, authors, universities and the country publishing most have been identified to the profile, and the publications have been tried to be identified according to WOS (Web of Science) categorization. Bibliometric analyses enable the creation of the data that contribute the improvement of the interaction between countries and universities or supportive institutions by determining the researchers who publish most in the research field, academic journals and the most used keywords (Tabuk, 2022;Yıldız, et al, 2022). In addition, they also define important indicators such as especially author reference indices (h and q indices) in the creation of the performance data that reveal the productivity of countries, universities or authors (Merigó et al, 2020).…”

“…It also aims to contribute the determination of the topics missing in the literature, the key words used in researches, author interactions, focal point to be determined in further researches and etc. (Singh et al, 2023;Tabuk, 2022;Tabuk, 2023;Yerlı̇su-Pala & Köse, 2021).…”

Analysis of Global Publications Related to Sport Management Education between 1990-2020

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