Dynamic and Quantitative CiteSpace Analysis of Chinese Sports Discipline in the Past Decade

Abstract

Based on the visualizing software of CiteSpace, this paper selects data resources from four Chinese core sports journals chosen by CSSCI, which include Sport Science, Chinese Sport Science and Technology, Academic Journal of Beijing Sports University, Academic Journal of Shanghai Sports University. All the cited papers were published from 2006 to 2015 in the four journals (the deadline of retrieval was on Jan. 10th, 2016). This paper analyzes the co-occurrence of keywords and authors of literature data, draws maps of scientific knowledge in sports discipline over the past decade, researching hotspot, researching front, researching strength and representatives in current study, organizes key nodes about literature in this field. Finally, this paper gets the highest keyword-time trends and the strongest citation bursts, and predicts the developing trends of sports science research in the future.