The Mapping Knowledge Analysis of Sport Risk Domain Research

Based on the core collection of the papers from the Web of Science since 1990 concerning the topics of the sports risk with 422 articles used as the original resource papers. Also, the Cite Space V was used to visually treat and analyze the data. Based on the mapping knowledge combined with sports-risk domain method, the study was intended to capture the core concepts and developmental process for the past 25 years of sport risk research outcomes. Also, the research study focuses on the advanced research study related sport risk domain research in order to integrate research and practice. The result shows that sport risk domain research has impacted the inter- disciplined studies in the areas of sport medicine, health, sports injury and rehabilitation, psychology, educational pedagogy, and social science, etc. The research studies focus on sports injury risk with two parts: theoretically, it bases on risk perception and sensation seeking as primary focus, from practical perspective, the research focuses on the injury risks caused by sports practice and engagements such as cruciate ligament injury, traumatic brain injury and other related research such as risk management, and influence factor research studies. The target research population is mainly youngsters, adolescents, and athletes.