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Doping in Sports

Doping in Sports is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 7.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the ethical, societal, and psychological implications of doping in sport. It covers topics such as athletes' attitudes towards doping, anti-doping policies, prevalence of doping, corruption in sports, and the role of athlete support personnel. The papers also delve into the moral disengagement and social cognitive factors influencing doping behavior among athletes.

  • Doping
  • Performance-Enhancing Drugs
  • Athletes' Attitudes
  • Anti-Doping Policy
  • Sport Ethics
  • Youth Doping
  • Corruption in Sports
  • Athlete Support Personnel
  • Doping Prevalence
  • Moral Disengagement
Research works
7.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
760
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Doping in Sports

Which countries lead Doping in Sports research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (359 and 160 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 359 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 160 works
  3. 3 France 106 works
  4. 4 Germany 92 works
  5. 5 Canada 72 works
  6. 6 Australia 68 works
  7. 7 China 61 works
  8. 8 Russia 59 works
  9. 9 India 59 works
  10. 10 Brazil 54 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: 32.9%United Kingdom: 14.7%France: 9.7%Germany: 8.4%6 others listed: 34.2%33%largest
United States359 · 32.9%United Kingdom160 · 14.7%France106 · 9.7%Germany92 · 8.4%6 others listed373 · 34.2%

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

Which institutions lead Doping in Sports research?

By volume in 2022-now, American Society of Genealogists publishes the most Doping in Sports research, followed by University of Lausanne and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 66 works
  2. 2 University of LausanneSwitzerland 18 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  4. 4 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 14 works
  5. 5 German Sport University CologneGermany 13 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 12 works
  7. 7 Charles UniversityCzechia 11 works
  8. 8 State University of Physical Education and SportMoldova 10 works
  9. 9 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 9 works
  10. 10 Azerbaijan State Marine AcademyAzerbaijan 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Doping in Sports?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Doping in Sports include Juan Jesús Carrero, Mark Damian Griffiths and Adrian Ernest Bauman.

  1. 1 Juan Jesús Carrero Sweden 222k citations
  2. 2 Mark Damian Griffiths United Kingdom 133k citations
  3. 3 Adrian Ernest Bauman Australia 129k citations
  4. 4 Matthew Jay Budoff United States 114k 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 Doping in Sports?

The most cited paper in Doping in Sports is "Adverse Events Associated with Testosterone Administration" (Shehzad Basaria et al., 2010), with 1,499 citations. Next come "Adverse Health Consequences of Performance-Enhancing Drugs: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement" (659) and "Positive Deviance among Athletes: The Implications of Overconformity to the Sport Ethic" (589).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Adverse Events Associated with Testosterone Administration Shehzad Basaria et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 30 Jun 2010 1,499
2 Adverse Health Consequences of Performance-Enhancing Drugs: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement Harrison Graham Pope, Ruth I. Wood, Alan D. Rogol et al. · Endocrine Reviews Open access 17 Dec 2013 659
3 Positive Deviance among Athletes: The Implications of Overconformity to the Sport Ethic Robert H. Hughes, Jay J. Coakley · Sociology of Sport Journal Open access Dec 1991 589
4 Recent Advances in Doping Analysis Thomas Bassindale, David Cowan, Sara E. C. Dale et al. 2002 547
5 Testosterone, and winning and losing in human competition ALAN R. BOOTH, Greg Shelley, Allan Mazur et al. · Hormones and Behavior Dec 1989 518
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Doping in Sports research done?

The largest centres of Doping in Sports research in 2022-now are Sharon (United States), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and Lausanne (Switzerland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon and Lausanne.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SharonUnited States 66 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 29 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 25 works
  4. 4 LausanneSwitzerland 23 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 OsloNorway 16 works
  8. 8 PragueCzechia 16 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 15 works
  10. 10 State CollegeUnited States 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 66.0 works356×
  2. LausanneCH · 22.5 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Doping in Sports than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Doping in Sports?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Lausanne, University of Toronto and Manchester Metropolitan University 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%20%40%mean 13.9875%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Manchester Metropoli…University of TorontoCharles UniversityUniversity of Lausanne
above the meannear itbelow it

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 LausanneSwitzerland 85.414.2%25.4×18 -3.4%
2University of TorontoCanada 71.823.6%3.8×12 +42.2%
3Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 71.830.0%34.3×8 +73.0%
4Charles UniversityCzechia 64.721.1%15.2×11 -13.7%
5German Sport University CologneGermany 64.413.6%142.8×13 +72.1%
6Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 49.47.7%8.6×14 -14.9%
7State University of Physical Education and SportMoldova 37.51.2%331.7×10 +28.2%
8Azerbaijan State Marine AcademyAzerbaijan 20.00.5%346.4×8 +300.0%

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 Doping in Sports, country by country

Is Doping in Sports research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Doping in Sports.

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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 Doping in Sports as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0065% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Doping in Sports0.0063% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Doping in Sports 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%Doping in Sports11.0% 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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