TY - JOUR
T1 - Bibliometric analysis of studies on coffee/caffeine and sport
AU - Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás
AU - Madrid-Casaca, Héctor
AU - Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido
AU - Garcia-Gordillo, Miguel Ángel
AU - Adsuar, José C.
AU - Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - This article provides an empirical overview of coffee/caffeine studies in relation to sport worldwide, an incipient but growing relationship that has existed since 1938, although systematized over time since 1999. The extracted articles were examined using a bibliometric approach based on data from 160 records stored in the Web of Science (JCR) between 1938 and August 2021, applying traditional bibliometric laws and using VOSviewer for data and metadata processing. Among the results, these articles highlight an exponential increase in scientific production in the last two decades, with a concentration in only 12 specific journals, the hegemony of the USA among the co-authorship networks of worldwide relevance, and the thematic and temporal segregation of the concepts under study. This article concludes a high fragmentation of the authors with the highest level of scientific production and an evolution of almost 20 years in relevant thematic topics, and a concurrent concentration in three large blocks: (1) coffee consumption and risk factors, (2) health and coffee consumption, and (3) metabolism and sport correlated with the intake of coffee, which are distanced in time, providing evidence of an evolution that gives way to the irruption of alternative visions in the relationship of coffee and caffeine with sport.
AB - This article provides an empirical overview of coffee/caffeine studies in relation to sport worldwide, an incipient but growing relationship that has existed since 1938, although systematized over time since 1999. The extracted articles were examined using a bibliometric approach based on data from 160 records stored in the Web of Science (JCR) between 1938 and August 2021, applying traditional bibliometric laws and using VOSviewer for data and metadata processing. Among the results, these articles highlight an exponential increase in scientific production in the last two decades, with a concentration in only 12 specific journals, the hegemony of the USA among the co-authorship networks of worldwide relevance, and the thematic and temporal segregation of the concepts under study. This article concludes a high fragmentation of the authors with the highest level of scientific production and an evolution of almost 20 years in relevant thematic topics, and a concurrent concentration in three large blocks: (1) coffee consumption and risk factors, (2) health and coffee consumption, and (3) metabolism and sport correlated with the intake of coffee, which are distanced in time, providing evidence of an evolution that gives way to the irruption of alternative visions in the relationship of coffee and caffeine with sport.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Caffeine effects
KW - Coffee consumption
KW - Drinkable nutrients
KW - Energy drinks
KW - Metabolism
KW - Risk factors
KW - Sports health
KW - Sports performance
KW - Sugar-sweetened beverages
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115087110&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/nu13093234
DO - 10.3390/nu13093234
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115087110
VL - 13
JO - Nutrients
JF - Nutrients
SN - 2072-6643
IS - 9
M1 - 3234
ER -