Der Beginn einer Reise: eine bibliometrische Analyse des relativen Alterseffekts in der Sportwissenschaft

Bilgiç, Mert; Işın, Ali

doi:10.1007/s12662-021-00792-w

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“…The scientific production involving RAE in sports has been increasing over the last few years 9 . The constraints-based model 10 proposes that RAE existence and/ or dimension in the sports context is a consequence of the interaction of individual, environment, and task constraints.…”

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Relative Age Effect in Brazilian water polo: analysis of male and female athletes from U16 to senior categories

Castro

Francisco

Oliveira

et al. 2022

Motriz: rev. educ. fis.

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To investigate the existence of relative age effect (RAE) in Brazilian water polo athletes according to sex and age category. Methods: The birthdate of 574 Brazilian water polo athletes were organized according to the athletes' birthdates into quarters of the year (Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4), and classified according to sex (male and female) and age category (U16, U18, U20, and senior). To verify the existence of RAE, the Chi-Square tests (χ 2 ) were performed, and the effect sizes (ω) were calculated for each of the tests. We also calculated odds ratio (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals, setting the level of significance to 0.05. As post hoc analysis, multiple comparisons between quarters were performed, with Bonferroni's correction (significance level set to 0.0083 in these cases). Results: The results indicated an uneven distribution of birthdates for male water polo athletes (χ 2 = 12.257; p = 0.007; ω = 0.173), with an overrepresentation of athletes born in the first (p < 0.006) and second (p < 0.002) quarters. When sex and age category were considered, male athletes presented uneven distributions in U20 (χ 2 = 10.747; p = 0.013; ω = 0.345) and senior (χ 2 = 12.614; p = 0.006; ω = 0.383) categories. In females, no differences were found. Conclusion: We conclude that there is an uneven distribution of birthdates in male Brazilian water polo athletes, indicating the presence of RAE in this group.

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Relative Age Effect in Brazilian water polo: analysis of male and female athletes from U16 to senior categories

Castro

Francisco

Oliveira

et al. 2022

Motriz: rev. educ. fis.

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“…the identification and improvement of skills are arduous tasks for teachers and coaches since predicting the potential of athletes is multidimensional and complex [1]. there is still a long way to go in improving the process of identifying and selecting talent, which follows scientific evolution [2]. therefore, ac-knowledging whether talent selection processes are affected by the relative age effect (RAE) is crucial within specific sports contexts [3].…”

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“…Despite the significant number of investigations involving RAE in the sports context, only a few studies assessed simultaneously different modalities, age categories, and sexes in the sports training stage, as verified by the review studies [2,5,13]. In addition, few studies involving RAE have specifically analysed student-athletes in the context of school sports [14].…”

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Relative age effect on student-athletes of Mato Grosso state (Brazil) participating in the National School Games depending on sex, age category, and sport type

Castro¹,

Silva²,

Nascimento³

et al. 2022

Hum Mov.

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Purpose. the relative age effect (RAE) is a widely reported phenomenon in elite sports context. However, little is known about its occurrence in other levels of practice, such as school sports. thus, this study aimed to investigate the presence of RAE on Mato Grosso state (Brazil) student-athletes participating in National School Games depending on sex, age category, and sport type. Methods. Data from 440 student-athletes of Mato Grosso state (Brazil) who participated in 2 National School Games: 2019 Youth School Games (n = 250) and 2021 Brazilian School Games (n = 190) were organized depending on their quarters of birth. Chi-square tests were performed to compare their birthdates distribution in accordance with sex (male and female), age category (12-14 years old and 15-17 years old), and sport type (team and individual sports). Results. Athletes born in the first months of the year were more frequent than athletes born in the last months of the year in the overall sample, in males, in the younger age category, and in team sports (p < 0.008). On the other hand, no differences were found for females, athletes from the older age category, or athletes practising individual sports (p > 0.05). Conclusions. RAE is pervasive in the student-athletes of Mato Grosso state (Brazil), specifically for male athletes in early categories of team sports. Educating coaches regarding this effect and implementing specific counter-RAE interventions are warranted to minimize selection bias in this sports context.

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“…Although bibliometric analysis is not completely alien to sport science, it is still far from being fully utilized to advance the field. To date, bibliometric studies have been conducted in several fields of sport science such as factors influencing sport performance (e.g., Bilgiç and Işin, 2022 ). Its applications have been extended to sport management issues (e.g., Shilbury, 2011 ; Ciomaga, 2013 ; Belfiore et al, 2019 ; Baier-Fuentes et al, 2020 ), sport economics (Santos and García, 2011 ), innovation in sport (Ferreira et al, 2020 ), selected sports (e.g., Ibáñez et al, 2021 ; Millet et al, 2021 ), sport and exercise psychology (e.g., Lindahl et al, 2015 ; Clancy et al, 2017 ), physical activity and aging (Müller et al, 2016 ), and sport nutrition (Kiss et al, 2021 ).…”

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Women's Footprint in Anti-Doping Sciences: A Bibliometric Approach to Research Impact

Kiss

Lakner

Soós

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Bibliometrics, via the exploitation of large-scale publication data, is a facile approach to explore gender-related trends, especially gender equality in academic publishing and authorship. For the first time, this study aims to investigate the gender-related trends in anti-doping sciences to (1) explore the relational structure of gender aspects of authorial, topical, and methodological features, (2) give recognition to women's contribution to anti-doping research, and (3) identify unique “gendered” potentials for advancing anti-doping research. To deliver on these aims, we employed bibliometric tools to publication records in anti-doping. After constructing a database containing academic publications on any aspect of anti-doping with at least one woman among the authors, we applied state-of-the-art methods from bibliometric science mapping and network analysis. The Lotka distribution model showed that the anti-doping research is a closed community with only 70 authors appearing more than once. Male authors being the majority (66.2%), women are under-represented in this field. The most important authorship position in the academic articles is mainly occupied by men, publications with male corresponding authors were in 774 out of 991 anti-doping related papers. The close connection of the top twenty most influential authors, men and women, to the World Anti-Doping Agency in some professional capacity suggest that the Agency have an influence on the anti-doping research beyond directly providing funding. In terms of geographical regions, publications with female authors were dominated anti-doping research in Italy, Romania, and Spain. In research networks to date, women have outperformed male authors in information centrality, which means that women in anti-doping research have had higher level of control over the information flow in the field than their male counterparts. The results of this study confirm the potential of bibliometric approach in the identification of emerging research topics and quantifying gender differentiation in the field of anti-doping. Due to their higher information centrality, women are better positioned for problem-focused multidisciplinary research both within anti-doping community, and with researchers in cognate fields. Bibliometric analyses have proved to be a powerful tool for monitoring and advancing anti-doping research impact via identifying new avenues for multidisciplinary work, better gender representation, and diversity.

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Der Beginn einer Reise: eine bibliometrische Analyse des relativen Alterseffekts in der Sportwissenschaft

Cited by 13 publications

References 45 publications

Relative Age Effect in Brazilian water polo: analysis of male and female athletes from U16 to senior categories

Relative Age Effect in Brazilian water polo: analysis of male and female athletes from U16 to senior categories

Relative age effect on student-athletes of Mato Grosso state (Brazil) participating in the National School Games depending on sex, age category, and sport type

Women's Footprint in Anti-Doping Sciences: A Bibliometric Approach to Research Impact

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