Abstract:
Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world in terms of spectator sports and participation of players. Soccer, commonly known as Association football or football, which is played than more than 250 million players in over 200 countries around the globe. This study attempts to mapping of soccer research through publications output in the global literature, which is available in the electronic form using mapping technique. The data for this study were retrieved from the Web of science database. Using search string in Web of science, the term „Soccer‟ in „article title, abstract and keywords‟ published in 2009 – 2013 years and all types were analyzed. The large number of soccer publications was in the year 2013, maximum of 1092 publications are brought out with the total global citation of 1337 which includes 148 local citation scores in soccer. The study indicates that publications in soccer was observed in 86 countries and United States of America top the list and it was followed by United Kingdom. The result reveals that University of Copenhagen had contributed high number of literature in soccer. The result reveals out of 12 languages, English has used 3823 literature and stood first among the all source languages. The analysis reveals that „article‟ has constituted 3401 of total documents of source, followed by „Meeting Abstract‟. Among all authors globally “Krustrup” has published 49 items in soccer literature and the top contributor in soccer with a citation score of 399. Journal of strength and conditioning research has published maximum of 349 publications in soccer. From this study, it was concluded that more works on soccer should be encouraged nationally throughout the country. To preserve the information and to enhance the academic excellence globally, literature in soccer should be in electronic form.
Author Name(s) : G.Vigneshwaran, R.Kalidasan, S.Srinivasaragavan
Keywords: Mapping, Database, Soccer.
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