چکیده:
Physical Education being applied in nature, the role of scientific research
has been widely challenged in this field. Applying a bibliometric analysis
method, the present study tries to investigate scientific achievement in
sports and exercises and examine its relation to practical performance, using
scholarly papers indexed in ISI as substitutes of scientific productivity and
medals won in olympic competitions for representations of athletic
performance. The results showed that Sport Sciences is a small scientific
community with a limited body of literature but a great number of
contributing countries. The counts of sports scientific publications revealed
to be exponentially increasing, signifying a stable annual growth
comparable to that of the global science system. There is also a significant
correlation between countries' success in olympic games and their scientific
productivity. However, the former is found to have no significant
correlation with the counts of sports-specific publications. It implies that
though the scientific productivity in sports have no direct effect on athletes'
performance in olympic games, the overall development of countries
determine their performance in competitions. Consequently, to reach
superiority in sports a complete evolution in all aspects of science, sports,
economy and human development is necessary.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Applying a bibliometric analysis method, the present study tries to investigate scientific achievement in sports and exercises and examine its relation to practical performance, using scholarly papers indexed in ISI as substitutes of scientific productivity and medals won in olympic competitions for representations of athletic performance.
Searching for some empirical proofs, the present study tries to investigate scientific productivity in sports and exercises as reflected in ISI sports-related papers and then verify whether the contributions in science have any correlation to the athletic performance across countries as reflected by their medals won in olympic games.
Review of Literature Despite searching into a wide range of academic publications, we did not find any previous research specifically directed at the topic of the correlation between scientific and practical achievement in Sport Sciences except for Bishop, Burnett, Farrow, Gabbet & Newton (2006) who discussed the subject in light of their experiences.
Although evaluation or description of the scientific outputs in the field of sports and exercises was the byproduct of a wide range of scientometric studies carried out to investigate the productivity or influence of publications at global or country levels, few ones specifically concentrated on the field.
For instance, Tsigilis, Grouios, Tsorbatzoudis & Koidou (2010) conducted a research at journal level to analyze the impact factors of Sport Sciences journals, their relative positions in relation to journals belonging to other scientific fields and their temporal stability.
e. personal contacts (Reade, Rodgers & Hall, 2008; Gould, Giannini, Krane & Hodge, 1990; Irwin, Hanton & Kerwin, 2004).