PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE ERIC DATABASE

Abstract

In respect to the growing interest in physical education and sports, the state of this largenumber of scientific literature and the bibliometric analysis has not been conducted. Thepurpose of this study to investigate the literature involved physical education and sports topicsregarding the descriptive bibliometric analysis. We gathered the open-access data from ERICwithin the permission of this database for non-commercial data usages. After a systematicquery whole, ERIC database scrapped between the 2010-2019 year and retrieved a total of365861 journal articles considered of 25573 articles as physical education and sports-related.There were 7581 articles published at the top 25journals (% 29.64). Subjects analysis accordingto “Physical education” was the commonly associated topic in this field. The findings of thisstudy observed that the ERIC database covered a huge number of articles regarding PE andsports topics. Dynamics of the research literature suggest the US was the first contributorcountry to both authors and articles. Hence, we conducted a descriptive analysis of the literatureindexed in the ERIC database theme include physical education and sports. This study provideda bibliometric analysis of an enormous number of articles after filtering the biggest educationbasis database.