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Athletic Training and Education

Athletic Training and Education is a research topic within Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 2.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the professional socialization, work-life balance, and challenges faced by athletic trainers in educational and clinical settings. It explores topics such as mentorship, student retention, job satisfaction, burnout, and gender bias in the field of athletic training. The papers also delve into the role of clinical education and the impact of organizational climate on athletic trainers' experiences.

  • Athletic Training
  • Professional Socialization
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Clinical Education
  • Student Retention
  • Mentorship
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Burnout
  • Gender Bias
  • Qualitative Research
Research works
2.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
246
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Athletic Training and Education

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Athletic Training and Education research?

By volume, the United States and Australia publish the most (344 and 71 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 344 works
  2. 2 Australia 71 works
  3. 3 New Zealand 48 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 27 works
  5. 5 Canada 26 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 16 works
  7. 7 Iraq 10 works
  8. 8 China 10 works
  9. 9 Philippines 9 works
  10. 10 India 9 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 60.4%Australia: 12.5%New Zealand: 8.4%United Kingdom: 4.7%6 others listed: 14.0%60%largest
United States344 · 60.4%Australia71 · 12.5%New Zealand48 · 8.4%United Kingdom27 · 4.7%6 others listed79 · 14.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Athletic Training and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Auckland publishes the most Athletic Training and Education research, followed by University of Otago and University of Connecticut.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of AucklandNew Zealand 12 works
  2. 2 University of OtagoNew Zealand 9 works
  3. 3 University of ConnecticutUnited States 9 works
  4. 4 Indiana State UniversityUnited States 8 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 7 works
  6. 6 A.T. Still UniversityUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 The University of QueenslandAustralia 6 works
  8. 8 Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand 6 works
  9. 9 Ball State UniversityUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 University of MosulIraq 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Athletic Training and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Athletic Training and Education include Neil Pearce, Adrian Ernest Bauman and Richard Charles Franklin.

  1. 1 Neil Pearce United Kingdom 150k citations
  2. 2 Adrian Ernest Bauman Australia 129k citations
  3. 3 Richard Charles Franklin Australia 125k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Athletic Training and Education?

The most cited paper in Athletic Training and Education is "Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition" (Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, David Tipene‐Leach et al., 2019), with 1,230 citations. Next come "Focus Group Interview: An Underutilized Research Technique for Improving Theory and Practice in Health Education" (840) and "Toward a Cognitive-Affective Model of Athletic Burnout" (687).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, David Tipene‐Leach et al. · International Journal for Equity in Health Open access 14 Nov 2019 1,230
2 Focus Group Interview: An Underutilized Research Technique for Improving Theory and Practice in Health Education Charles E. Basch · Health Education Quarterly Dec 1987 840
3 Toward a Cognitive-Affective Model of Athletic Burnout Ronald E. Smith · Journal of Sport Psychology Mar 1986 687
4 Making sense of focus groups Rosaline S. Barbour · Medical Education 9 Jun 2005 583
5 Issues in Outcomes Research: An Overview of Randomization Techniques for Clinical Trials Minsoo Kang, Brian G. Ragan, Jae-Hyeon Park · Journal of Athletic Training Open access Mar 2008 566
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Where is Athletic Training and Education research done?

The largest centres of Athletic Training and Education research in 2022-now are Auckland (New Zealand), Melbourne (Australia), Brisbane (Australia) and Sydney (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Auckland.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AucklandNew Zealand 21 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 11 works
  3. 3 BrisbaneAustralia 10 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 9 works
  5. 5 DunedinNew Zealand 9 works
  6. 6 StorrsUnited States 9 works
  7. 7 Terre HauteUnited States 8 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 7 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 7 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AucklandNZ · 21.5 works36×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Athletic Training and Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Athletic Training and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Auckland, University of Otago and University of Connecticut score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 8.975%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of AucklandUniversity of OtagoIndiana State Univer…University of Connec…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of AucklandNew Zealand 90.017.3%36.6×12 +104.5%
2University of OtagoNew Zealand 54.016.7%49.0×9 +3.7%
3University of ConnecticutUnited States 7.00.2%31.3×8 -25.1%
4Indiana State UniversityUnited States 4.01.7%651.6×8 -4.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Athletic Training and Education, country by country

Is Athletic Training and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Athletic Training and Education.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Athletic Training and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Athletic Training and Education0.0031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Athletic Training and Education over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Athletic Training and Education9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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