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Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis
BACKGROUND: The role of sports in decreasing the prevalence of many diseases has led to a growing interest in the field of sport and exercise medicine. But sport and exercise medicine still remains new to the Arab world, waiting to be explored. The aim of this study is to describe and characterise s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5728261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29259813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2017-000292 |
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author | Fares, Mohamad Y Fares, Jawad Baydoun, Hasan Fares, Youssef |
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description | BACKGROUND: The role of sports in decreasing the prevalence of many diseases has led to a growing interest in the field of sport and exercise medicine. But sport and exercise medicine still remains new to the Arab world, waiting to be explored. The aim of this study is to describe and characterise sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world between 2002 and 2016. METHODS: The PubMed database was used to search for publications related to sport and exercise medicine. Publications were classified according to the country of origin and filtered to include publications between 2002 and 2016. Research output was analysed with respect to gross domestic product (GDP) and population of each country. RESULTS: A total of 1148 papers related to sport and exercise medicine were found to be published in the Arab countries between 2002 and 2016. Sport-and-exercise-medicine-related publications constituted 0.86% of the total biomedical research papers published in the Arab world and 0.49% of the world’s sport and exercise medicine literature. The number of sport-and-exercise-medicine-related publications per country ranged from zero to 352, with Qatar occupying the top spot. Tunisia ranked first with respect to publications per average GDP, while Qatar ranked first with respect to publications per average population. Comoros, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen were found to have no publications related to sport and exercise medicine. CONCLUSION: Sport and exercise medicine is a novel field in the Arab world. Recognising the barriers facing sport and exercise medicine research and exploring them meticulously remains an essential part of the plan to improve the Arab world’s output and contribution in this field. |
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spelling | pubmed-57282612017-12-19 Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis Fares, Mohamad Y Fares, Jawad Baydoun, Hasan Fares, Youssef BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med Original Article BACKGROUND: The role of sports in decreasing the prevalence of many diseases has led to a growing interest in the field of sport and exercise medicine. But sport and exercise medicine still remains new to the Arab world, waiting to be explored. The aim of this study is to describe and characterise sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world between 2002 and 2016. METHODS: The PubMed database was used to search for publications related to sport and exercise medicine. Publications were classified according to the country of origin and filtered to include publications between 2002 and 2016. Research output was analysed with respect to gross domestic product (GDP) and population of each country. RESULTS: A total of 1148 papers related to sport and exercise medicine were found to be published in the Arab countries between 2002 and 2016. Sport-and-exercise-medicine-related publications constituted 0.86% of the total biomedical research papers published in the Arab world and 0.49% of the world’s sport and exercise medicine literature. The number of sport-and-exercise-medicine-related publications per country ranged from zero to 352, with Qatar occupying the top spot. Tunisia ranked first with respect to publications per average GDP, while Qatar ranked first with respect to publications per average population. Comoros, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen were found to have no publications related to sport and exercise medicine. CONCLUSION: Sport and exercise medicine is a novel field in the Arab world. Recognising the barriers facing sport and exercise medicine research and exploring them meticulously remains an essential part of the plan to improve the Arab world’s output and contribution in this field. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5728261/ /pubmed/29259813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2017-000292 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Original Article Fares, Mohamad Y Fares, Jawad Baydoun, Hasan Fares, Youssef Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis |
title | Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis |
title_full | Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis |
title_fullStr | Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis |
title_short | Sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis |
title_sort | sport and exercise medicine research activity in the arab world: a 15-year bibliometric analysis |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5728261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29259813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2017-000292 |
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