Bibliometric Analysis of Foreign Physical Education Research Based on CiteSpaceⅢ

The 4178 articles from the Web of Science database of physical education subject records were analyzed and processed by using CiteSpaceⅢ software.The productivity,country distribution and core journals in physical education research domain were presented by the knowledge mapping.High-productivity institutions and countries,collaborations among institutions and countries,and research focuses were analyzed by Pathfinder.The results showed that the publications were increasing undulately over years.The countries with most productivity include USA,Brazil,England,and so as the journals covering the topic of physical education.The institutions with most productivity were mainly from USA and England.Consistent with the Power Law distribution,a great portion of high productivity authors are Chinese,mainly coming from the most productivity institutions.These authors and institutions have their own specific research interests.