Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Production in the Swimming Field

Abstract

Advances in the scientific literature in the field of sports have generated a growing trend towards the development of academic production, which is why this article focuses on analyzing scientific production between the period 1960-2021 in the field of sport. Swimming, from the construction of a bibliometric analysis in the Scopus database. The search equations focused on DECS (Descriptors in Health Sciences), with the descriptors: swimmers, swimmers male, swimming, swimming races. There is evidence of increase in the production of scientific documents in the period 2010-2020; Within the investigation, it was revealed that 86% of the documents are research articles, where 84% of these studies are in the field of health and sports physiology, and 6% are review documents; predominating the USA and the United Kingdom as the main producers of information and studies in swimming in the last 10 years.