Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach
Sports management is a field of study that has grown significantly. However, little is known about its structure. Therefore, this article presents an unsupervised cluster learning approach based on a thematic analysis of abstracts. It applies to a large corpus of sports management documents to gain...
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| author | Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos Manuel Sánchez Franco Ferran Calabuig María Huertas González-Serrano |
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Sports management is a field of study that has grown significantly. However, little is known about its structure. Therefore, this article presents an unsupervised cluster learning approach based on a thematic analysis of abstracts. It applies to a large corpus of sports management documents to gain insight into the structure of the discipline. A total of 3,704 records were downloaded from the Scopus database. Data were processed using the BERTopic approach. The results indicate that sports management is a growing and highly collaborative field of study. The themes (or topics) were diversified (25 clusters). Due to their proximity, seven meta topics were also identified. While the interest in major sports events and the social impact of sports tourism has lessened in recent years, other fields of study, such as entrepreneurship, innovation and sports club management, have captured the interest of researchers.
Keywords: Sports management, bibliometric analysis, topic modelling, BERTopic, UMAP, hDBSCAN.
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| spelling | doaj-art-80619fe1b99d4aa9acc0bf282ca138bf2025-08-20T02:39:35ZengFEADEFRetos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación1579-17261988-20412023-01-014710.47197/retos.v47.93622Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approachManuel Alonso-Dos-SantosManuel Sánchez FrancoFerran Calabuig0María Huertas González-Serrano1Universitat de ValènciaUniversitat de València Sports management is a field of study that has grown significantly. However, little is known about its structure. Therefore, this article presents an unsupervised cluster learning approach based on a thematic analysis of abstracts. It applies to a large corpus of sports management documents to gain insight into the structure of the discipline. A total of 3,704 records were downloaded from the Scopus database. Data were processed using the BERTopic approach. The results indicate that sports management is a growing and highly collaborative field of study. The themes (or topics) were diversified (25 clusters). Due to their proximity, seven meta topics were also identified. While the interest in major sports events and the social impact of sports tourism has lessened in recent years, other fields of study, such as entrepreneurship, innovation and sports club management, have captured the interest of researchers. Keywords: Sports management, bibliometric analysis, topic modelling, BERTopic, UMAP, hDBSCAN. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/retos/article/view/93622Sports managementbibliometric analysistopic modellingBERTopicUMAPhDBSCAN |
| spellingShingle | Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos Manuel Sánchez Franco Ferran Calabuig María Huertas González-Serrano Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación Sports management bibliometric analysis topic modelling BERTopic UMAP hDBSCAN |
| title | Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach |
| title_full | Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach |
| title_fullStr | Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach |
| title_short | Modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach |
| title_sort | modelling the structure of the sports management research field using the bertopic approach |
| topic | Sports management bibliometric analysis topic modelling BERTopic UMAP hDBSCAN |
| url | https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/retos/article/view/93622 |
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