Sports Performance and Training

Sports Performance and Training is a research topic within Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Science Explorer counts 64k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in sports science, including training load monitoring, performance analysis, resistance training, physiological demands of soccer, muscle adaptations, high-intensity interval training, neuromuscular fatigue, metabolic responses, and athlete monitoring.

Training Load
Performance Analysis
Resistance Training
Physiological Demands
Soccer Performance
Muscle Adaptations
High-Intensity Interval Training
Neuromuscular Fatigue
Metabolic Responses
Athlete Monitoring

Research works: 64k
In the world top 10%: 6.3k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +14%
Largest producer: United States

Sports Performance and Training

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

Which countries lead Sports Performance and Training research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 2k works
2 China 1.3k works
3 Spain 1k works
4 Brazil 901 works
5 Türkiye 865 works
6 United Kingdom 821 works
7 India 619 works
8 Japan 550 works
9 Australia 540 works
10 Indonesia 521 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 States2,021 · 22.1%China1,264 · 13.8%Spain1,026 · 11.2%Brazil901 · 9.9%6 others listed3,916 · 42.9%

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

Which institutions lead Sports Performance and Training research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Sport University publishes the most Sports Performance and Training research, followed by German Sport University Cologne and American Society of Genealogists.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Beijing Sport UniversityChina 89 works
2 German Sport University CologneGermany 85 works
3 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 77 works
4 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 73 works
5 Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain 66 works
6 Universidad de GranadaSpain 58 works
7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 54 works
8 Universidade do PortoPortugal 54 works
9 University of BaghdadIraq 52 works
10 Shanghai University of SportChina 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sports Performance and Training?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sports Performance and Training include Gregory Y.H. Lip, Dan J. Stein and Luigi Ferrucci.

1 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
3 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
4 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
5 Piotr P. Ponikowski Poland 253k citations
6 Mark Gerstein United States 250k citations
7 Tommi Juhani Vasankari Finland 248k 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 Performance and Training?

The most cited paper in Sports Performance and Training is "Psychophysical bases of perceived exertion" (Gunnar A. V. Borg, 1982), with 16,661 citations. Next come "Progressive Statistics for Studies in Sports Medicine and Exercise Science" (9,161) and "Measures of Reliability in Sports Medicine and Science" (4,630).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Psychophysical bases of perceived exertion Gunnar A. V. Borg · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise	May 1982	16,661
2	Progressive Statistics for Studies in Sports Medicine and Exercise Science Will G. Hopkins, Stephen W. Marshall, Alan M. Batterham et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise	24 Dec 2008	9,161
3	Measures of Reliability in Sports Medicine and Science Will G. Hopkins · Sports Medicine	2000	4,630
4	Quantifying Test-Retest Reliability Using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient and the SEM Joseph P. Weir · The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research	2005	4,514
5	Exercise Capacity and Mortality among Men Referred for Exercise Testing JONATHAN N. MYERS, Manish Prakash, Victor F. Froelicher et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access	14 Mar 2002	4,147

All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sports Performance and Training research done?

The largest centres of Sports Performance and Training research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Madrid (Spain) and São Paulo (Brazil). 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 BeijingChina 229 works
2 TokyoJapan 209 works
3 MadridSpain 160 works
4 São PauloBrazil 151 works
5 LondonUnited Kingdom 124 works
6 IstanbulTürkiye 123 works
7 MelbourneAustralia 113 works
8 AnkaraTürkiye 109 works
9 ShanghaiChina 97 works
10 CologneGermany 91 works

Where it is the local speciality

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

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Where is the best place to study Sports Performance and Training?

Among universities, judged by research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Middlesex University and German Sport University Cologne 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia	72.5	35.5%	4.6×	32	+361.0%
2	Middlesex UniversityUnited Kingdom	67.8	30.8%	25.9×	19	+31.3%
3	German Sport University CologneGermany	66.5	12.8%	112.0×	85	+62.3%
4	Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom	65.4	22.8%	14.1×	30	+97.5%
5	Shanghai University of SportChina	64.1	20.1%	67.1×	51	+92.7%
6	Beijing Sport UniversityChina	63.8	13.8%	99.3×	89	+496.7%
7	University of JendoubaTunisia	63.6	30.6%	35.1×	13	+88.7%
8	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	61.4	44.6%	2.0×	11	-0.6%
9	University of Southern DenmarkDenmark	61.3	31.1%	3.3×	18	+6.1%
10	Edith Cowan UniversityAustralia	61.2	21.3%	21.8×	39	-22.0%
11	University of SuffolkUnited Kingdom	60.7	38.3%	44.4×	12	-14.6%
12	University of CopenhagenDenmark	60.4	27.8%	1.6×	21	+6.9%
13	Universidad Europea de MadridSpain	60.2	17.9%	30.7×	32	+37.8%
14	Universidad Católica de MurciaSpain	60.2	22.2%	45.9×	30	+37.7%
15	Nord UniversityNorway	60.0	18.2%	30.7×	25	+18.9%
16	University of CalgaryCanada	59.5	18.1%	4.5×	41	+11.1%
17	Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom	59.4	20.0%	12.5×	39	+5.2%
18	Guangzhou Sport UniversityChina	59.4	31.4%	96.0×	21	+757.1%
19	Liverpool John Moores UniversityUnited Kingdom	59.0	17.1%	15.6×	31	-10.9%
20	Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece	58.9	17.3%	6.5×	42	+25.5%
21	Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand	58.9	20.5%	16.6×	39	-23.7%
22	Foro Italico University of RomeItaly	58.9	18.5%	108.9×	24	+46.4%
23	Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain	58.6	13.4%	25.0×	66	+2.9%
24	University of LisbonPortugal	58.6	17.5%	3.2×	34	+27.4%
25	Universidad de GranadaSpain	58.5	15.4%	7.6×	58	+2.3%
26	University of KansasUnited States	58.1	36.6%	3.3×	22	+114.6%
27	Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego im. Jerzego Kukuczki w KatowicachPoland	57.7	20.1%	136.8×	28	+12.0%
28	University of SalfordUnited Kingdom	57.5	29.8%	17.0×	21	-12.7%
29	Universidad Politécnica de MadridSpain	57.4	19.2%	8.9×	37	+0.1%
30	Gdansk University of Physical Education and SportPoland	57.3	18.1%	120.6×	25	+70.3%
31	Universidade do PortoPortugal	56.5	13.8%	6.2×	54	-3.5%
32	Leeds Beckett UniversityUnited Kingdom	56.2	22.7%	29.6×	30	-10.4%
33	Australian Catholic UniversityAustralia	55.8	27.3%	14.7×	20	-7.2%
34	Universidad Andrés BelloChile	55.7	18.4%	16.0×	18	+289.8%
35	Manouba UniversityTunisia	55.2	14.8%	21.8×	18	+29.3%
36	La Trobe UniversityAustralia	54.1	13.5%	9.6×	38	+2.9%
37	University of the Basque CountrySpain	54.0	12.1%	6.3×	40	+3.5%
38	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	54.0	18.2%	3.8×	20	+25.2%
39	University of EssexUnited Kingdom	53.6	20.8%	6.8×	14	+18.0%
40	Victoria UniversityAustralia	53.3	18.2%	24.0×	26	-45.8%
41	Norwegian School of Sport SciencesNorway	52.6	17.7%	84.8×	22	-32.2%
42	Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia	51.2	2.9%	9.6×	73	+157.0%
43	Universidad de MurciaSpain	49.3	13.9%	11.3×	48	-24.9%
44	University of Technology SydneyAustralia	48.2	18.7%	3.2×	19	-28.2%
45	McMaster UniversityCanada	47.2	27.3%	1.6×	12	-35.6%
46	University of BathUnited Kingdom	47.1	29.9%	3.9×	12	-37.4%
47	University of BaghdadIraq	43.8	1.2%	5.5×	52	+107.0%
48	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	42.1	16.0%	1.0×	12	+105.8%
49	Universidade de São PauloBrazil	41.0	6.3%	2.0×	54	-26.2%
50	University of BernSwitzerland	40.1	9.0%	1.8×	13	+26.4%
51	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	39.9	25.3%	1.2×	9	-22.2%
52	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	38.7	14.6%	1.1×	10	+105.1%
53	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	36.2	12.2%	1.4×	15	-4.0%
54	Hungarian University of Sports ScienceHungary	35.2	4.0%	98.2×	23	-20.1%

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 Sports Performance and Training, country by country

Is Sports Performance and Training research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sports Performance and Training.

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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 Performance and Training as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.067% in 2024.

Fractional works of Sports Performance and Training 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.

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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Which countries lead Sports Performance and Training research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Sports Performance and Training research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Sports Performance and Training?

What are the most cited papers in Sports Performance and Training?

Where is Sports Performance and Training research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Sports Performance and Training?

Is Sports Performance and Training research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion