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<bold>Background:</bold> The development of the sports industry was impacted by the era of Big Data due to the rapid growth of information technology. Unfortunately, that has become an increasingly challenging Issue.
<bold>Objectives:</bold> The purpose of the research was to analyze the scientific production of Big Data in sports and sports-related activities in two databases, Web of Science and Scopus.
<bold>Methods/Approach:</bold> Bibliometric analysis and topic mining were done on 51 articles selected after four exclusion criteria (written in English, journal articles, the final stage of publication, and a detailed review of all full texts). The software tool used was Statistica Data Miner.
<bold>Results:</bold> We found that the first articles appeared in Scopus in 2013 and WoS in 2014. USA and China are countries which produced the most articles. The most common research areas in WoS and Scopus are Public environmental and occupational health, Medicine, Environmental science ecology, and Engineering.
<bold>Conclusions:</bold> We conducted that further research and literature review will be required as this is a broad and new topic.
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Background: The development of the sports industry was impacted by the era of Big Data due to the rapid growth of information technology. Unfortunately, that has become an increasingly challenging Issue.
Objectives: The purpose of the research was to analyze the scientific production of Big Data in sports and sports-related activities in two databases, Web of Science and Scopus.
Methods/Approach: Bibliometric analysis and topic mining were done on 51 articles selected after four exclusion criteria (written in English, journal articles, the final stage of publication, and a detailed review of all full texts). The software tool used was Statistica Data Miner.
Results: We found that the first articles appeared in Scopus in 2013 and WoS in 2014. USA and China are countries which produced the most articles. The most common research areas in WoS and Scopus are Public environmental and occupational health, Medicine, Environmental science ecology, and Engineering.
Conclusions: We conducted that further research and literature review will be required as this is a broad and new topic.

Big Data in Sports: A Bibliometric and Topic Study

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Business Systems Research Journal

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Background: The development of the sports industry was impacted by the era of Big Data due to the rapid growth of information technology. Unfortunately, that...

Big Data in Sports: A Bibliometric and Topic Study

Publicado en línea: 15 oct 2022

Páginas: 19 - 34

Recibido: 09 may 2021

Aceptado: 19 nov 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0002

Palabras clave
Big Data, sport, bibliometric study, topic study, health care management, services, decision making

© 2022 Ana Šuštaršič et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Big Data in Sports: A Bibliometric and Topic Study

Publicado en línea: 15 oct 2022

Páginas: 19 - 34

Recibido: 09 may 2021

Aceptado: 19 nov 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0002

Palabras claveBig Data, sport, bibliometric study, topic study, health care management, services, decision making

© 2022 Ana Šuštaršič et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
Big Data, sport, bibliometric study, topic study, health care management, services, decision making