Content Analysis of Journal of Sport Physiology

The aim of this study was to analyze the content of journal of Sport Physiology since the first issue until 2016. While the description of content was quantitative, a systematic and objective approach was also considered. According to the results, the total number of papers were 263, in which 64.3% were in the scope of health, 22.3% were in the scope of championship and 13.3% remained papers were related to other areas, in terms of field of study. Surveying research designs, the methodology of 9.9% was descriptive, 76.8% was quasi-experimental, 12.5% was experimental and 0.8% were done by other methods. Surveying participants indicated that in terms of age, the young people had the highest portions with 4.57% and the lowest portions related to children and the elderly people. Also in terms of health status, healthy subjects (40.7%) and patients (11%) had the highest and the lowest frequency, respectively. In terms of dependent variable, cardiovascular and respiratory (30.4%) had the highest and sports nutrition (4.9%) had the lowest frequency. Based on research findings, it can be concluded that in terms of field of study, the highest portion of papers published in journal of Sport Physiology were in the health area and the most researches were quasi- experimental design in terms of research designs. Also, researches were mainly performed on healthy and non-athlete subjects in adult age range. Generally, regarding research frequency imbalance in various fields of exercise physiology, it would be recommended to determine research priorities for this journal.
Keywords
Content Analysis; Scientific-Research Journals; Exercise Physiology; Sport Sciences Research Institute