ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
Bibliometric analysis of the effects of mental fatigue on athletic performance from 2001 to 2021.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- The relationship between mental fatigue awareness and effective decision-making levels of athletes: the role of mediating and moderating variables.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Association between antioxidant status and special strength performance in combat athletes: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Visualization of the Research Panorama of Decision-Making in Soccer: Bibliometric Analysis with VOSviewer and Review of the Most Cited Studies of the Last 15 Years (2010-2024).Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Mental Fatigue Impairs Temporal Perceptual Prediction: A Study on Boxing Performance Across Skill Levels.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Does mental fatigue influence the accuracy of paralympic boccia players?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Mental Fatigue and Sports Performance of Athletes: Theoretical Explanation, Influencing Factors, and Intervention Methods.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Relationship between Athletes' Big Five Model of Personality and Athletic Performance: Meta-Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Transforming tennis with artificial intelligence: a bibliometric review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Review
- Objective assessment of cognitive fatigue: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Race analysis in swimming: understanding the evolution of publications, citations and networks through a bibliometric review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Review
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Abstract
Aims: To explore the research hot topics and main contents in the field of the influence of mental fatigue on athletic performance, and to provide new ideas and directions for future research in this field. Methods: Using CiteSpace and VOSviewer visualization tool software core collection of Web of Science database to TS = ("mental fatigue" OR "mental exertion" OR "cognitive fatigue" OR "Cognitive exertion" OR "mental exhaustion" OR "mental tiredness") AND ("athletic performance" OR "technical skill*" OR "Skill*" OR "technique" OR "decision making" OR "performance") AND ("Humans") searched for the influence of mental fatigue on athletic performance from 2001 to 2021 to conduct visual analysis. Research hot topics were analyzed from the aspects of high-impact countries/regions, institutions, authors, high-frequency keywords, and mutation terms. Results: A total of 658 publications were identified finally, and there has been an increasing trend in the annual number of publications, with the United States ranking first in the number of publications and influence. Future research will focus on promoting the application of EEG technology as an objective indicator for assessing mental fatigue, exploring effective methods and measures for pharmacological or non-pharmacological interventions against fatigue, and focusing on the effects of mental fatigue on endurance performance, technical skills, and sports-related decision-making. Conclusion: The results of the present study help us understand the status of the mental fatigue and athletic performance field and its recent developments.
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