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Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics

Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the biomechanical analysis of golf swing performance, including topics such as swing kinematics, injury prevention, club head speed, muscle activity, ball flight trajectory, low back pain, wrist torque, shoulder injuries, and physical conditioning for golfers.

  • Golf Biomechanics
  • Swing Kinematics
  • Injury Prevention
  • Club Head Speed
  • Muscle Activity
  • Ball Flight Trajectory
  • Low Back Pain
  • Wrist Torque
  • Shoulder Injuries
  • Physical Conditioning
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics

Which countries lead Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (553 and 342 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 553 works
  2. 2 China 342 works
  3. 3 Japan 206 works
  4. 4 India 156 works
  5. 5 Spain 124 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 123 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 123 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 119 works
  9. 9 Australia 92 works
  10. 10 Germany 75 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: 28.9%China: 17.9%Japan: 10.8%India: 8.1%6 others listed: 34.3%29%largest
United States553 · 28.9%China342 · 17.9%Japan206 · 10.8%India156 · 8.1%6 others listed656 · 34.3%

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

Which institutions lead Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 92 works
  2. 2 The University of SydneyAustralia 16 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  4. 4 Beijing Sport UniversityChina 14 works
  5. 5 University of TsukubaJapan 12 works
  6. 6 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 10 works
  7. 7 Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand 10 works
  8. 8 University of LisbonPortugal 10 works
  9. 9 Shanghai University of SportChina 10 works
  10. 10 Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics include Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Harry Eugene Stanley and Chris Frith.

  1. 1 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  2. 2 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  3. 3 Chris Frith United Kingdom 175k citations
  4. 4 Rachelle Buchbinder Australia 173k 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 Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics?

The most cited paper in Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics is "Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes" (Leslie Allen, Marco W. Beijersbergen, R. J. C. Spreeuw et al., 1992), with 10,522 citations. Next come "On the LambertW function" (6,268) and "Rheology of non-Newtonian fluids: A new flow equation for pseudoplastic systems" (2,071).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes Leslie Allen, Marco W. Beijersbergen, R. J. C. Spreeuw et al. · Physical Review A Jun 1992 10,522
2 On the LambertW function Robert M. Corless, Gastón H. Gonnet, D. E. G. Hare et al. · Advances in Computational Mathematics Dec 1996 6,268
3 Rheology of non-Newtonian fluids: A new flow equation for pseudoplastic systems Malcolm M. Cross · Journal of Colloid Science Jun 1965 2,071
4 A simple method for measurement of mechanical power in jumping Carmelo Bosco, Pekka Luhtanen, Paavo V. Komi · European Journal of Applied Physiology 1983 1,712
5 The spring-mass model for running and hopping Reinhard Blickhan · Journal of Biomechanics 1989 1,686
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics research done?

The largest centres of Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics research in 2022-now are Sharon (United States), Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SharonUnited States 92 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 73 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 68 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 25 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 24 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 22 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 22 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 21 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 21 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 92.0 works309×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics?

Among universities, judged by research, Auckland University of Technology, University of Lisbon and Beijing Sport University score highest, combining citation 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 12.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LisbonAuckland University …Beijing Sport Univer…German Sport Univers…
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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.

Citation 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
1Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand 76.717.4%23.4×10 +5.6%
2University of LisbonPortugal 64.720.8%5.1×10 +391.3%
3Beijing Sport UniversityChina 63.516.7%83.3×14 +403.7%
4German Sport University CologneGermany 57.415.1%60.8×9 +104.6%
5The University of SydneyAustralia 56.02.3%5.2×16 -11.9%
6La Trobe UniversityAustralia 53.914.9%11.2×8 +191.2%
7Shanghai University of SportChina 49.213.4%69.5×10 +117.1%
8Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom 43.217.7%14.9×9 -26.0%
9University of TsukubaJapan 38.63.9%12.1×12 -51.7%
10Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 32.02.0%7.3×10 +22.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics, country by country

Is Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics.

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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 Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics 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.

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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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