Gümüş, H., Gençoğlu,C., & Şahin, T. (2020). Physical education and sports: Bibliometric analysis of the ERIC database. International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET), 7(4) 1823-1837. http://iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/998 Received: 21.07.2020 Received in revised form: 28.08.2020 Accepted: 20.09.2020 PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE ERIC DATABASE Research article Hikmet Gümüş Celal Gençoğlu Dokuz Eylul University (Corresponding author) gumush@gmail.com Dokuz Eylul University celal.gencoglu@deu.edu.tr Tolga Şahin Dokuz Eylul University tolga.sahin@deu.edu.tr Hikmet Gümüş is MD and Ph.D. as a researcher in the Exercise Physiology and Sports Analytics and Data Processing. He has a wide variety of research interests including physical education & sports data analysis to the development of solutions in athletic performance and biomedical equipment. Celal Gençoğlu is a lecturer in the Faculty of Sport Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology at Dokuz Eylul University. His research interests are exercise and sports technology and methodological approaches. Tolga Şahin is an assistant professor at the Dokuz Eylul University. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Education and Sports Department at the Gazi University. He is vice-Dean of the Faculty of Sport Sciences at the Dokuz Eylul University. Copyright by Informascope. Material published and so copyrighted may not be published elsewhere without the written permission of IOJET. mailto:gumush@gmail.com mailto:celal.gencoglu@deu.edu.tr mailto:tolga.sahin@deu.edu.tr https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7671-4868 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5568-1331 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9594-4466 International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(4), 1823-1837. 1823 PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE ERIC DATABASE Hikmet Gümüş gumush@gmail.com Celal Gençoğlu celal.gencoglu@deu.edu.tr Tolga Şahin tolga.sahin@deu.edu.tr Abstract In respect to the growing interest in physical education and sports, the state of this large number of scientific literature and the bibliometric analysis has not been conducted. The purpose of this study to investigate the literature involved physical education and sports topics regarding the descriptive bibliometric analysis. We gathered the open-access data from ERIC within the permission of this database for non-commercial data usages. After a systematic query whole, ERIC database scrapped between the 2010-2019 year and retrieved a total of 365861 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 according to “Physical education” was the commonly associated topic in this field. The findings of this study observed that the ERIC database covered a huge number of articles regarding PE and sports topics. Dynamics of the research literature suggest the US was the first contributor country to both authors and articles. Hence, we conducted a descriptive analysis of the literature indexed in the ERIC database theme include physical education and sports. This study provided a bibliometric analysis of an enormous number of articles after filtering the biggest education basis database. Keywords: bibliometric analysis, physical education, sports, ERIC database 1. Introduction The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library for educational studies and information sponsored by a public institute (Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education) since 1966. The coverage of the ERIC database provides variety’s types of publications such as journal articles, books, conference papers, thesis, reports, etc. This extensive education database includes over 1000 journals, 1.6 million items and 350,000 accessible full-text materials (Rudner, 1999). However, this tremendous amount of materials considered as “grey literature” because of a portion of reports and conference papers. Therefore, it is important to bibliometric analysis of this growing literature to understanding trend topics in the related area and impacts to both journals and researchers ("National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) mailto:gumush@gmail.com mailto:celal.gencoglu@deu.edu.tr mailto:tolga.sahin@deu.edu.tr Gümüş, Gencoğlu & Şahin 1824 Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education.," 2020). The ERIC index is essential for education researchers related to physical education (PE) and sports cause of vulnerable contribution to the area with underlining the importance of physical activity and revelation of the standards for PE (Young, 1997). Bibliometric analysis affords priority and tendency of the researchers, which is useful information to the indicator of the subject impacts of published articles in these journals. Moreover, the in-depth analysis is also useful to determine if it may achieve the major topics or trends in the area to develop and implementation of education goals regarding PE and sports (Shilbury, 2011). Previous studies conducted to the analysis of the literature for the sport management by the searching Web of Science (Belfiore, Iovino, & Tafuri, 2019; Shilbury, 2011). The study investigated by Khoo et al., applied a variation of the methodology, which focused on citations of the publications for bibliometric analysis in disability sport (Khoo, Li, Ansari, & skills, 2018). In another research paper, Zavrśnik et al., analyzed the literature based on sports education to identify the most productive research topics regarding a special sports education model that used in curriculums of the elementary and high school (E. Zavrsnik, Kokol, Pisot, Blazun, & Sport, 2015). However, this study performed the searching keywords in the Scopus database (Scopus, Elsevier) is a commercial database service. Further, there is a wide application of the bibliometric analysis in special references to different sports disciplines such as judo, badminton, and soccer (Blanca-Torres, Ortega, Nikolaidis, & Torres-Luque, 2020; Brito, Nassis, Seabra, Figueiredo, & medicine, 2018; Peset Mancebo et al., 2013). Nevertheless, to date, there is a not linked or unified gap of analyzed literature throughout the widely published scientific articles in the area of physical education and sports regarding ERIC database which is one of most inclusionary educational databases. The aim of this study is to identify of the literature involved physical education and sports topics regarding the descriptive bibliometric analysis. 2. Method We gathered the open-access data from ERIC within the permission of this database for non-commercial data usages. We applied a custom-made query because of the ERIC database covered other educational studies. ERIC indexed materials in ERIC gains title, authors, subjects, publishers, sponsors (if exists), type (journal articles, books, dissertations, reports, conference papers, etc.), sources (journal name, publishers), and year information. We excluded the other resources and searched for only articles. After a systematic query whole ERIC database scrapped between2010-2019 year and collected a total of 365861 journal articles. Twentynine mandatory and 71 sports science-related subjects determined and keywords from the area created (Table 1). Including criteria of articles based on our query rules “Selected sports science-related topics AND Related keywords in abstracts) OR Selected mandatory topics” as shown in Figure 1. International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(4), 1823-1837. 1825 Table 1 The subjects and keywords used throughout the selection of articles Mandatory subjects Related subjects Keywords Physical Education Skill Development Athlete Drop jump Training Performance Factors Athletes Body fat Physical Activities Health Promotion Athletic Muscle Coaching (Performance) Evaluation Swimming Skeletal muscle Athletics Measurement Athletics Slow twitch Physical Activity Level Measurement Techniques Coach * Glycogen Team Sports Health Education Coaching * Creatine kinase Athletes Child Health Detraining ATP Intramural Athletics Teaching Skills Exercise * Tennis Physical Health Performance Exercise physiology Creatine phosphate Physical Fitness Public Health Fitness Agility College Athletics Physiology Health-related Wrestling Athletic Coaches Health Camps Biomechanics Exercise Physiology Exercise Physical activity Biochemistry Health Related Fitness Skill Analysis Physical education Injury Aquatic Sports Measurement Equipment Recreation Heart rate Team Training Medicine Sport Cardiac output Sports Decision Making Skills Sports Running Sport Psychology Performance Technology Team sports Distance covered Racquet Sports Physical Therapy Training * Badminton Sports Medicine Fatigue (Biology) Soccer Pretest * Sportsmanship Medical Evaluation Handball Pre-test * Women’s Athletics Cognitive Measurement Basketball Wearable Student Athletes Health Sciences Volleyball IMU Extramural Athletics Physical Characteristics Olympic Acceleration Adapted Physical Education Therapeutic Recreation Student Eval. of Teacher Perf. Countermovement jump Football Physical Recreation Programs Student Teacher Evaluation Athletic performance Netball Physical Education Facilities Physical Mobility Aerobic Adenosine triphosphate Physical Education Teachers Test Coaching Anaerobic Change of direction Volunteer Training Kinesiology Retraining Anthropometric Health Activities VO2max Vocational Training Centers Lactate Preventive Medicine Endurance Teacher Skills Strength * Recreational Activities Power * Recreation Resistance Training Physical Development Plates School Recreational Programs Throwing Ppysical Performance Gymnastic * Although being essential keywords, we excluded those because of confused with other educational technical terms and retrieved unrelated materials. Gümüş, Gencoğlu & Şahin 1826 Figure 1 The searching algorithm of the ERIC database. We performed a distribution of articles for each year along 10-year. The most article published journals generated and top 25 journals considered as most preferred sources. During the publishing, the article most set out topics found, and top 25 subjects listed. We performed a distribution of subjects for each year along 10-year. Top 25 country listed from geographic data processed articles from our database (n=16398). Number of owned articles of authors listed top 25 authors included for most influential authors. Country and institutional information provided from web-based searching for each author. In this study we visualized by creating the word cloud for subjects and titles of included articles. Word cloud sorts of the words the selected text according to most frequently used words and displays that words bigger and closer to the center of cloud. During the word cloud process for the title we exclude the propositions, conjunctions, pronouns, numbers, definite articles. International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(4), 1823-1837. 1827 3. Results In this study, we retrieved total 365861 journal articles for 10 years period and considered of 25573 articles as physical education and sports related. The number of articles published each year was similar whereas the fewest articles in 2013 and the highest one in 2017. When we examine the source of the articles, there were 1542 different journals. There were 7581 articles published at the top 25 journals (% 29.64). In this ranking Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport was the first journal with 644 articles (Table2). Table 2 Geographical and source analysis of articles: The countries and journals top 25. Country Number of articles Journals as source Number of articles United States 5031 Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 644 United Kingdom 1582 Sport, Education and Society 528 Australia 1199 Journal of Leadership Education 447 Turkey 1130 Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators 446 Canada 863 Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance 443 China 336 European Physical Education Review 408 Spain 290 Physical Educator 380 New Zealand 288 Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 362 Germany 271 Journal of School Health 336 Sweden 256 Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 324 Netherlands 230 Journal of Education and Training Studies 319 South Africa 217 Athletic Training Education Journal 308 Ireland 190 Health Education & Behavior 247 Finland 173 Quest 245 Norway 172 Journal of Social Work Education 230 Taiwan 149 Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science 226 Hong Kong 147 Journal of Extension 226 Greece 142 Health Education Journal 212 France 141 Health Education Research 210 Georgia 138 Universal Journal of Educational Research 190 Russia 134 Educational Research and Reviews 185 Brazil 126 Counselor Education and Supervision 175 Iran 126 Online Submission 173 India 117 Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal 160 Korea 115 Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD) 157 The most common geographical contribution on the topic observed from United States. Following countries were the United Kingdom and Australia and Turkey which took part with more than one thousand articles. The top 25 countries associated a total of 13563 articles which covered more than % 53 of generally published articles (Table 2). Gümüş, Gencoğlu & Şahin 1828 Subjects analysis according to years indicated that “Physical education” was the commonly associated topic in this field. Physical education assigned as the first subject in six of ten years whereas found place in the top three in these exceptional years (Table 3). Table 3 Subjects distribution of the published articles according to the years. 2010 (2452 articles) 2011 (2867 articles) 2012 (2892 articles) 2013 (1515 articles) 2014 (3016 articles) Subjects No Subjects No Subjects No Subjects No Subjects No Evaluation Methods 425 Physical Education 513 Physical Educatio n 418 Physical Activities 227 Physical Education 529 Physical Activities 340 Physical Activities 446 Physical Activities 382 Physical Education 176 Physical Activities 369 Physical Education 315 Evaluation Methods 384 Evaluatio n Methods 283 Counselor Training 162 Skill Developme nt 342 Evaluation 264 Training 273 Training 280 Training 161 Training 291 Skill Development 222 Skill Development 247 Leadershi p Training 271 Transfer of Training 135 Program Evaluation 254 Counselor Training 211 Mental Health 235 Skill Develop ment 271 Skill Developm ent 121 Physical Education Teachers 245 Mental Health 204 Athletics 233 Performa nce Factors 242 Mental Health 99 Physical Activity Level 243 Training 196 Health Promotion 205 Counselo r Training 234 Program Evaluation 98 Transfer of Training 224 Health Promotion 186 Performance Factors 198 Training Methods 222 Coaching (Performa nce) 93 Leadership Training 223 Program Evaluation 186 Evaluation 197 Mental Health 209 Health Promotion 92 Health Promotion 218 Student Evaluation 177 Counselor Training 196 Program Evaluatio n 199 Evaluation Methods 89 Coaching (Performan ce) 216 Physical Activity Level 164 Physical Activity Level 195 Athletics 195 Physical Education Teachers 84 Student Evaluation 215 Leadership Training 161 Leadership Training 191 Transfer of Training 176 Athletics 83 Athletics 213 Physical Health 155 Physical Education Teachers 189 Physical Educatio n Teachers 175 Leadership Training 83 Evaluation Methods 207 Health Behavior 141 Program Evaluation 186 Physical Activity Level 171 Physical Activity Level 81 Health Behavior 207 Athletics 140 Transfer of Training 168 Health Educatio n 149 Performan ce Factors 79 Counselor Training 195 Transfer of Training 140 Training Methods 165 Health Promotio n 149 Evaluation 76 Health Education 171 International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(4), 1823-1837. 1829 Performance Factors 132 Physical Health 148 Student Evaluatio n 147 Training Methods 74 Mental Health 151 Physical Education Teachers 131 Health Behavior 144 Coaching (Perform ance) 146 Health Behavior 72 Team Sports 140 Health Education 129 Health Education 142 Physical Health 143 Measurem ent 71 Performanc e Factors 135 Training Methods 116 Student Evaluation 139 Measure ment 140 Student Evaluation 70 Training Methods 132 Child Health 115 Health Services 131 Evaluatio n 136 Team Sports 70 Physical Fitness 115 Team Sports 114 Team Sports 112 Athletes 125 Physical Health 67 Athletes 114 Athletes 110 Physical Fitness 110 Health Behavior 111 Athletes 66 Child Health 114 Measurement Techniques 103 Measurement 109 Team Sports 109 Physical Fitness 58 Exercise 106 2015 (2832 articles) 2016 (2912 articles) 2017 (3128 articles) 2018 (2951 articles) 2019 (3008 articles) Subjects No Subjects No Subjects No Subjects No Subjects No Skill Development 467 Physical Education 452 Leadershi p Training 568 Physical Education 508 Physical Education 464 Physical Education 405 Skill Development 421 Skill Develop ment 454 Physical Activities 364 Skill Developme nt 434 Training 341 Training 352 Physical Educatio n 405 Skill Developm ent 361 Training 378 Physical Activities 294 Physical Activities 315 Training 372 Training 334 Physical Activities 347 Program Evaluation 264 Athletics 260 Physical Activities 289 Athletics 331 Athletics 330 Transfer of Training 246 Transfer of Training 232 Athletics 242 Team Sports 256 Leadership Training 271 Leadership Training 243 Leadership Training 224 Evaluatio n Methods 227 Physical Education Teachers 242 Transfer of Training 250 Coaching (Performance) 242 Program Evaluation 211 Coaching (Perform ance) 224 Athletes 237 Physical Education Teachers 234 Athletics 226 Coaching (Performance ) 200 Transfer of Training 224 Leadership Training 236 Coaching (Performan ce) 225 Evaluation Methods 210 Health Promotion 194 Physical Educatio n Teachers 219 Physical Activity Level 206 Physical Activity Level 220 Health Promotion 210 Physical Activity Level 191 Training Methods 207 Coaching (Performa nce) 196 Team Sports 214 Physical Activity Level 204 Evaluation Methods 180 Program Evaluatio n 203 Transfer of Training 195 Mental Health 197 Gümüş, Gencoğlu & Şahin 1830 Student Evaluation 200 Physical Education Teachers 178 Physical Activity Level 178 Counselor Training 167 Counselor Training 187 Training Methods 200 Counselor Training 172 Student Evaluatio n 173 Evaluation Methods 153 Athletes 177 Physical Education Teachers 179 Student Evaluation 171 Counselo r Training 145 Health Promotion 149 Health Promotion 175 Counselor Training 169 Training Methods 166 Mental Health 136 Program Evaluation 148 Health Behavior 167 Health Behavior 150 Mental Health 152 Athletes 130 Exercise 144 Student Evaluation 159 Health Education 131 Athletes 151 Team Sports 126 Student Evaluation 141 Evaluation Methods 142 Performance Factors 125 Health Behavior 139 Health Promotio n 125 Health Behavior 139 Program Evaluation 131 Self Evaluation (Individuals) 115 Team Sports 135 Health Behavior 117 Mental Health 136 Exercise 125 Teaching Skills 104 Health Education 126 Teaching Skills 117 Health Education 114 Physical Fitness 108 Mental Health 100 Exercise 113 Health Educatio n 111 Training Methods 108 Performanc e 104 Athletes 97 Self Evaluation (Individuals) 98 Formativ e Evaluatio n 104 Physical Fitness 103 Athletic Coaches 93 Exercise 94 Physical Fitness 97 Performa nce Factors 93 Measurem ent 96 Health Education 91 Measurement Techniques 94 Formative Evaluation 93 Self Evaluatio n (Individu als) 93 Performan ce 96 Physiology 87 The prominent subjects of all 10 years period were “Teaching methods and Student attitudes” (Figure 2). International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(4), 1823-1837. 1831 Figure 2 Word cloud of subjects of the all articles retrieved for 10-year. Numbers of contributed authors on the sports science’s topic found that 58083. As illustrated at the table 4, first 25 ranked authors published a total of 813 articles and most productive author has 67 articles. Investigation of the institutional analysis of the authors showed the domination of universities from the United States (18/25). Gümüş, Gencoğlu & Şahin 1832 Table 4. The most influential authors, number of articles and affiliations. Author Article s no Institution Department Country Richards, K. Andrew R. 67 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kinesiology and Community Health United States Mazerolle, Stephanie M. 53 University of Connecticut Department of Kinesiology United States MacPhail, Ann 46 University of Limerick Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences Ireland Haegele, Justin A. 39 Old Dominion University Department of Human Movement Sciences United States Penney, Dawn 37 Edith Cowan University. School of Education Australia Kirk, David 35 University of Strathclyde School of Education Scotland Ward, Phillip 34 The Ohio State University Department of Human Sciences United States Bowman, Thomas G. 31 University of Lynchburg Athletic Training United States Kulinna, Pamela Hodges 31 Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College United States Hastie, Peter A. 30 Auburn University School of Kinesiology United States Quennerstedt, Mikael 30 Örebro University School of Health Sciences Sweden Zhu, Xihe 30 Old Dominion University Department of Human Movement Sciences United States Harvey, Stephen 30 Ohio University Recreation and Sports Pedagogy United States Cardinal, Bradley J. 29 Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences United States Macdonald, Doune 29 University of Queensland School of Human Movement Studies Australia Casey, Ashley 29 Loughborough University School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences United Kingdom Li, Weidong 28 The Ohio State University Department of Human Sciences United States Pill, Shane 28 Flinders University College of Education Australia Sato, Takahiro 27 Kent State University School of Teaching United States van der Mars, Hans 27 Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College United States Webster, Collin A. 27 University of South Carolina College of Education,Physical Education United States McCaughtry, Nate 24 Wayne State University Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies United States Xiang, Ping 24 Texas A&M University College of Education and Human Development United States Beighle, Aaron 24 University of Kentucky College of Education United States Judge, Lawrence W. 24 Ball State University School of Kinesiology United States We performed further analysis to understand real attitude of the articles, words counted in the titles of the publications. As shown in the word cloud (Figure 3) most frequently words used in the titles were “Physical education; Physical activity; Training; Learning; Development; Student and Teacher”. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=th&org=16161526096496270291 International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(4), 1823-1837. 1833 Figure 3 Visualization of most frequently take part words in the title. 4. Discussion The current study was carried out to highlight the current knowledge on a solidify topic (PE and sports) within its tendency that useful to guide the researchers for future studies. One of the importance of this study considering that no bibliometric research in sports science for the ERIC database. The findings of this study observed that the ERIC database covered a huge number of articles regarding PE and sports topics. Dynamics of the research literature suggest the US was the first contributor country to both authors and articles. In addition, physical education and physical activity and educational basis topics more attractive subjects compared to athletic performance. Research subject distribution and title word analysis results showed that major topics in the ERIC database was physical education, physical activities, physical activity level, learning, teaching, and coaching in the last 10 years. This may be partly explained by the educational basis index covers more publications in relation with program developing, teaching or students attitudes and behaviors in physical education. Similarly, there was a high network density of title and abstract in terms of education thematic analysis in sport entrepreneurship (González- Serrano, Jones, & Llanos-Contrera, 2019). Current journal analysis also supported the educational priority in the ERIC publications. We observed that journals namely “Sport, Education and Society; Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators; Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance; European Physical Education Review; Physical Educator; Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy; Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, and Journal of Education and Training Studies” have placed in top 25. However, we did not consider the languages except English. Moreover, the current study did not take into account the other publication types except original articles. One of the methodological differences of this study was an article commonly assigned over one subject by the ERIC database. Current study considered the last decade of PE and sports-related publications, authors, journals, and subjects in the ERIC database. Interestingly, the first ranking country that Gümüş, Gencoğlu & Şahin 1834 contributed to the PE and sports area was the United States. Moreover, the most productive authors’ in this study were also US residential institutions. An explanation for this result was education and sports are restricted related in the US, with common high schools and colleges have organized sports team determined by the cultural contexts (Pot & van Hilvoorde, 2013). College football and basketball tournaments are very famous organizations in the US that performed under the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Therefore, it is not a surprise to these teams, athletes, and students demanding more scientific knowledge and more employment of the sports scientists produce more articles. Another possible explanation to this result was countries that giving more importance to the athletic programs and Olympic, also more active in the academic publishing in the PE and sports area. In a supporting study, researchers analyzed on technological usage in PE focused on Web of Science publications and found that articles merge in last 5-year. In agreement with our results, the United States was an efficient contributor country in the technology area, whereas Spain was the most influential one on virtual or augmented reality studies (Calabuig-Moreno, González-Serrano, Fombona, & García-Tascón, 2020). Further, in the bibliometric study of combat sports US dominance on scientific contribution revealed similar with current findings (Gutiérrez García, Pérez Gutiérrez, & Calderón Tuero, 2011). In the study that sport, education and society based bibliometric analysis querying from the Scopus database Zavrśnik et al., showed that US occupied the first rank for most productive country (J. Zavrsnik et al., 2016). The previous studies focused on bibliometric analysis for the sports science area regarding the country, continent, or society. In the study researched the development of Chinese sports sciences literature, Zhang emphasized the importance of academic thesis and increased multidisciplinary collaboration. However, they found that social and psychology subjects covered most of the literature instead of a lower percentage of physical education (Zhang & Education, 2017). This result may be explained by searching only Chinese databases. Similarly, Andrade et al., investigated another geographical based bibliometric analysis on South American sports sciences literature (Andrade, López, Ramírez-Campillo, Beltrán, & Rodríguez, 2013). Contradictory to our results, they found that most of the scientific papers from this continent were sports medicine related topics such as physiology, orthopedic and rehabilitation (Andrade et al., 2013). However, their searching algorithm included Web of Science and excluded other databases. In another study, Fares et al., took attention to sport and exercise medicine regarding the last 15 years for Arab society. They demonstrated that growing literature and scientific productivity is related to sport and exercise medicine (Fares, Fares, Baydoun, Fares, & medicine, 2017). We could not compare with current findings because they did not analyze the topics. Most published number of articles from Qatar and Tunisia first ranked country respect to the articles per average gross domestic product. These countries have no association with ERIC database materials where current analysis got five articles for Qatar and six for Tunisia. 5. Limitations and conclusion Current findings limited to 10-year period and ERIC database for PE and sports-related topics and keywords. Further research needed to analyze the author's network and citation interactions to understand what quantities required for being addressed in an effective publication. Last decade researches consolidate to citation analysis in this kind of bibliometric study (Müller, 2015). 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