Historical Evolution,Hotspots and Frontier Trends of Sporting Goods Research in China
To systematically sort out the historical evolution of the research of Sporting Goods in China,and reveal its research hotspots and cutting-edge trends.The combination of quantitative and qualitative methods,such as bibliometrics and bibliographic data,was used to analyze the annual publication volume,timeline mapping,author collaboration,and keyword co-occurrence and emergence.It is found that:1)The development of sports goods research in China has gone through four stages,namely,attempting to explore,high-speed growth,smooth transition,and decreasing speed and increasing quality,and the change of the annual number of publications shows a trend of first increasing and then decreasing.2)The core research team has been initially formed,and members within the team collaborate closely,but the level of inter-team cooperation needs to be improved.3)The evolution of research content has obvious stage characteristics,from the early"status quo"to"status quo+case+data"to"case+data+theory",the theory of the construction of more and more attention.4)The research content of the research team has obvious stage characteristics.The construction of the theory is getting more and more attention.4)The research hotspots mainly include sporting goods brands,sporting goods enterprises,transformation and upgrading of sporting goods manufacturing industry,the Belt and Road Initiative and sporting goods trade,and in the coming period of time,digitization and intelligence,double-cycling and new development should become the focus of sporting goods research.