The most effective mediators of publication and scientific map of sports entrepreneurship studies in Web of Science

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of sport management, faculty of sport science, Razi university.

2 Faculty of Sports Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah

10.22059/jsm.2026.363729.3181
Abstract
Bibliography helps scholars to get a deeper understanding of the seemingly separate streams of research. This approach provides the possibility of classification as well as visualization. It creates a spatial representation of the results that maps the knowledge understandably and coherently. Due to the importance of the topic, the aim of this investigation was a bibliometric analysis of sport entrepreneurship studies. Using keywords (entrepreneur* AND sport*) (Title) and, without time limit, scientific documents were extracted from the Web of Science that was registered until June/2023/ 2. A total of 193 documents were identified and saved. For performance analysis, the data was transferred to the HistCite software to find the most effective mediators for publishing scientific documents based on the indicators of the total number of records, the total number of global citations (TGCS), the total number of local citations (TLCS), global citation score (GCS) and, local citation score (LCS). Moreover, to illustrate and draw a scientific map, the VOS-viewer software developed by Van Eck and Waltman (2010) was used. The findings showed that sports entrepreneurship has been the focus of many scholars in recent years. In addition, results indicate that articles have been published by 353 authors in 110 magazines in 10 languages and from 47 countries. In the meantime, the most effective dissemination intermediaries were identified according to the TGCS and GCS index. Furthermore, using co-occurrence indices of words and co-coupling index, clusters, and streams of research were identified, which are discussed in the text of the article.

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  • Receive Date 04 October 2026
  • Revise Date 21 October 2026
  • Accept Date 21 October 2026