School of Sports Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China.
School of Sport Medicine and Health, Chengdu Sport University, Chengdu, China.
Front Public Health. 2023 Jun 2;11:1118674. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1118674. eCollection 2023.
Motor development plays an important role in human development throughout the lifespans, from conception to death, and has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years. However, valuable comprehensive reviews and literature analysis on this topic are still lacking. Here, this bibliometric study aimed to identify global motor development research hotspots and trends on preschool children's motor development from 2012 to 2022.
CiteSpace 6.1.R4 was used to visualize and analyze general bibliometric characteristics, research hotspots, and trends through a review of 2,583 articles on the motor development of preschool children, which were published from 2012 to 2022 and included in the Web of Science Core Collection.
Research on motor development in preschool children has been carried out into a phase of rapid development. The top five frequently occurring keywords were physical activity (n = 489), performance ( = 319), intervention ( = 222), health ( = 196), and executive function ( = 165); The top five keywords in terms of centrality are academic achievement (0.22), low birth weight (0.16), association (0.14), brain (0.13), and cerebral palsy (0.13). Thirteen keyword clusters were produced from the log-likelihood ratio ( = 0.74, = 0.88), and five research topics has been received focused attention in recent years. The keywords with the strongest citation bursts in the last 5 years are developing country ( = 5.92), school-aged children ( = 5.86), middle-income country ( = 3.46), efficacy ( = 5.41), readiness ( = 3.21), motor proficiency ( = 3.6), and screen time ( = 3.3), indicating newly emerging research trends.
The results indicated that interventions involving fundamental movement skills, cognitive function, 24-h movement behaviors, neurodevelopmental disorders, and health-related fitness were hot topics in the field of motor development over the last decade. Emerging research trends generally center on school readiness, socioeconomic status, motor proficiency, and screen time.
运动发育在人类整个生命周期中都起着重要作用，从受孕到死亡，近年来受到越来越多的学术关注。然而，关于这个主题的有价值的综合评论和文献分析仍然缺乏。在这里，这项文献计量研究旨在确定 2012 年至 2022 年期间针对学龄前儿童运动发育的全球运动发育研究热点和趋势。
使用 CiteSpace 6.1.R4 通过对 2012 年至 2022 年发表的 2583 篇关于学龄前儿童运动发育的文献进行综述，可视化和分析一般文献计量特征、研究热点和趋势，这些文献均包含在 Web of Science 核心合集。
对学龄前儿童运动发育的研究已经进入了快速发展阶段。出现频率最高的五个关键词是：身体活动（n=489）、表现（n=319）、干预（n=222）、健康（n=196）和执行功能（n=165）；中心度最高的五个关键词是学业成绩（0.22）、低出生体重（0.16）、关联（0.14）、大脑（0.13）和脑瘫（0.13）。通过对数似然比（=0.74，=0.88）产生了 13 个关键词聚类，近年来有五个研究主题受到了关注。过去 5 年中引文爆发最强的关键词是发展中国家（=5.92）、学龄儿童（=5.86）、中等收入国家（=3.46）、疗效（=5.41）、准备（=3.21）、运动技能（=3.6）和屏幕时间（=3.3），表明新出现的研究趋势。
结果表明，过去十年中，涉及基本运动技能、认知功能、24 小时运动行为、神经发育障碍和健康相关体能的干预措施是运动发育领域的热点。新兴研究趋势通常集中在入学准备、社会经济地位、运动技能和屏幕时间。
