Status of the research in volleyball and beach volleyball from match analysis: a bibliometric analysis.

Abstract

Although this type of literature has been used in several fields of research beyond sports, as far as we know, this article is the first bibliometric study in this field of research. We conduct a bibliometric analysis of the scientific production related in volleyball and beach volleyball from match analysis in Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection. The current state of research on Match Analysis has grown considerably in the last decade (2010-2020), both modalities. The journals that have most publication was the International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport and Journal of Physical Education and Sport and Journal of Human Kinetics. The most productive countries were Spain and Portugal. The most productive institutions were University of Alicante and University of Porto. Palao J.M. and Garcia-De-Alcaraz are the most productive authors. We hope that this study will provide valuable information about the current state of scientific production in MA in Volleyball and Beach Volleyball