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International youth football research developments: A CiteSpace-based bibliometric analysis.
Article in Heliyon, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Integrated Anthropometric, Physiological and Biological Assessment of Elite Youth Football Players Using Machine Learning.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Involution and governance reform in professional football club-school integration: a case study of S City's youth training base.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- The decade of China's football reform: Evolutionary characteristics, performance evaluation, and reflections and insights.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
With the vigorous development of football, research on youth football has garnered significant attention from scholars, leading to an increase in published findings. However, there is currently no comprehensive retrospective study that examines the status, hotspots, and trends of research in this field. This study employed Cite Space, a visual bibliometric software, to systematically review and analyze 1637 articles from the Web of Science (WOS) and China Knowledge Infrastructure Project (CNKI) databases up to January 2024. The primary objective was to examine the sources, authors, institutions, regions, citations, as well as keywords, and clustering of these articles to identify the global research hotspots and trends in youth football. The study concluded that the number of research articles in this field has been decreasing annually, and the research hotspots are exhibiting a gradual downward trend. The primary research institutions are comprehensive universities, supplemented by research centers and hospitals. The United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and China have produced substantial research results in this area, and collaboration among researchers is relatively strong, indicating a positive development trajectory. Current research hotspots include sports monitoring and evaluation, sports injury and risk, talent identification and development, sports performance, the integration of sports and education, school football, and youth training systems. This finding provides a comprehensive overview of the research landscape in this field and presents opportunities for researchers to pursue further in-depth investigations.
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