Fortington Lauren V, Handcock Rebecca N, Derman Wayne, Emery Carolyn A, Pasanen Kati, Schwellnus Martin, Verhagen Evert, Finch A O Caroline F
School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin University - Perth Bentley Campus, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2023 Feb 1;9(1):e001460. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2022-001460. eCollection 2023.
Research evidence is commonly compiled into expert-agreed consensus statements or guidelines, with an increasing trend towards their publication in peer-reviewed journals. Prominent among these has been the publication of several International Olympic Committee (IOC) tatements to help inform sport and exercise medicine (SEM) practice. This study aimed to assess the citation impact and reach of the IOC statements published between 2003 and 2020.
Bibliometric analysis focused on identifying core publications (original statement and linked publications) and quantifying their academic citations (number and Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)) in journal articles up to February 2022. The analysis includes descriptive data on the country of IOC statement authorship affiliations, where they were published and by whom. The extent to which the IOC statements have been cited in the peer-reviewed literature is presented, together with information about the country of authorship of the citing papers as a measure of international academic reach.
29 IOC statements were composed of 61 core publications. The IOC statements have had 9535 citations from 7863 citing publications. Individual FWCI ranged from 1.2 to 24.3 for core publications. The IOC statements were coauthored by multiple authors, mostly affiliated to countries with well-resourced SEM Authors of citing publications reflected the same geographical regions (ie, the USA, Canada, Australia, UK and western Europe.).
Disseminating the IOC statements as open access papers in peer-reviewed journals has resulted in strong citation impact. However, this impact is centred on well-resourced academic circles that may not represent the diversity of SEM. Further research is required to identify if, and to what extent, the IOC statements have impacted SEM practice worldwide.
研究证据通常被汇编成专家认可的共识声明或指南，并且在同行评审期刊上发表的趋势日益增加。其中突出的是国际奥委会（IOC）发表了几份声明，以指导运动与运动医学（SEM）实践。本研究旨在评估2003年至2020年期间发表的国际奥委会声明的被引影响力和传播范围。
文献计量分析侧重于识别核心出版物（原始声明及相关出版物），并量化截至2022年2月其在期刊文章中的学术引用次数（数量和领域加权被引影响力（FWCI））。该分析包括关于国际奥委会声明作者所属国家、发表地点及发表者的描述性数据。呈现了国际奥委会声明在同行评审文献中的被引程度，以及作为国际学术传播衡量指标的引用论文作者所属国家的信息。
29份国际奥委会声明由61篇核心出版物组成。国际奥委会声明已被7863篇引用出版物引用9535次。核心出版物的个体FWCI范围为1.2至24.3。国际奥委会声明由多位作者共同撰写，他们大多隶属于拥有资源丰富的运动与运动医学的国家。引用出版物的作者反映了相同的地理区域（即美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、英国和西欧）。
在同行评审期刊上以开放获取论文的形式传播国际奥委会声明产生了强大的被引影响力。然而，这种影响集中在资源丰富的学术圈子，可能无法代表运动与运动医学的多样性。需要进一步研究以确定国际奥委会声明是否以及在多大程度上影响了全球的运动与运动医学实践。
