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Physical Education and Gymnastics

Physical Education and Gymnastics is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of physical education, circus activities, and their impact on various demographic groups such as youth and elderly. It delves into topics like gymnastics, dance, pedagogy, mental well-being, and quality of life, with a focus on public health.

  • Physical Education
  • Circus Activities
  • Gymnastics
  • Dance
  • Elderly Health
  • Mental Well-being
  • Quality of Life
  • Pedagogy
  • Youth Fitness
  • Public Health
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
85% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Physical Education and Gymnastics

Which countries lead Physical Education and Gymnastics research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (2.5k and 119 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 2.5k works
  2. 2 Portugal 119 works
  3. 3 United States 119 works
  4. 4 Spain 55 works
  5. 5 ?? 34 works
  6. 6 Mexico 30 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 25 works
  8. 8 China 22 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 18 works
  10. 10 France 17 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.

Brazil: 85.0%Portugal: 4.1%United States: 4.1%Spain: 1.9%6 others listed: 5.0%85%largest
Brazil2,494 · 85.0%Portugal119 · 4.1%United States119 · 4.1%Spain55 · 1.9%6 others listed146 · 5.0%

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

Which institutions lead Physical Education and Gymnastics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Physical Education and Gymnastics research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 59 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 55 works
  3. 3 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 53 works
  4. 4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 43 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 37 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 37 works
  7. 7 Universidade do Estado de Santa CatarinaBrazil 33 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 32 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 30 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Physical Education and Gymnastics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Physical Education and Gymnastics include Déborah Carvalho Malta, Diego Augusto Santos Silva and Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider.

  1. 1 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
  2. 2 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations
  3. 3 Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider Brazil 120k 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 Physical Education and Gymnastics?

The most cited paper in Physical Education and Gymnastics is "Revisão integrativa: método de pesquisa para a incorporação de evidências na saúde e na enfermagem" (Karina Dal Sasso Mendes, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira Silveira, Cristina María Galvão, 2008), with 4,323 citations. Next come "Correlates of Gross Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (825) and "Global prevalence of falls in the older adults: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis" (473).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Revisão integrativa: método de pesquisa para a incorporação de evidências na saúde e na enfermagem Karina Dal Sasso Mendes, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira Silveira, Cristina María Galvão · Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem Open access Dec 2008 4,323
2 Correlates of Gross Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Lisa Michele Barnett, Samuel K. Lai, Sanne L. C. Veldman et al. · Sports Medicine ReviewOpen access 19 Feb 2016 825
3 Global prevalence of falls in the older adults: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis Nader Salari, Niloofar Darvishi, Melika Ahmadipanah et al. · Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research ReviewOpen access 28 Jun 2022 473
4 Effect of Tai Chi on Cognitive Performance in Older Adults: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis Peter M. Wayne, Jacquelyn N. Walsh, Ruth E. Taylor‐Piliae et al. · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society ReviewOpen access 2014 422
5 Physical activity programs for balance and fall prevention in elderly Ewan Thomas, Giuseppe Battaglia, Antonino Patti et al. · Medicine Open access Jul 2019 410
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Physical Education and Gymnastics research done?

The largest centres of Physical Education and Gymnastics research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Montes Claros.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 339 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 175 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 82 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 82 works
  5. 5 RecifeBrazil 77 works
  6. 6 FlorianópolisBrazil 75 works
  7. 7 Porto AlegreBrazil 71 works
  8. 8 CuritibaBrazil 70 works
  9. 9 SalvadorBrazil 68 works
  10. 10 BelémBrazil 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Montes ClarosBR · 21.2 works73×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Physical Education and Gymnastics on the map

Where is the best place to study Physical Education and Gymnastics?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 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 13.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Estadua…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 73.211.7%10.7×59 -11.9%
2Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 67.716.2%25.9×53 -41.3%
3Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 62.112.3%20.7×37 -26.7%
4Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulBrazil 59.515.1%34.7×22 +6.3%
5Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 59.410.7%25.6×55 -38.1%
6Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 55.811.3%13.0×26 -38.6%
7Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 55.17.6%19.3×43 -28.5%
8Southwest Bahia State UniversityBrazil 54.518.3%37.4×10 -42.1%
9Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 54.217.1%12.3×15 -33.6%
10Universidade Estadual da ParaíbaBrazil 54.210.0%41.7×11 +50.3%

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 Physical Education and Gymnastics, country by country

Is Physical Education and Gymnastics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Physical Education and Gymnastics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Physical Education and Gymnastics0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Physical Education and Gymnastics 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%Physical Education and Gymnastics9.9% 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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