THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP FOR THE SPORTS PRACTICE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/sports-education/2025-2-8Keywords:
athlete, sleep, sports practice, literary system “sleep-athlete”, information source, scientometric databaseAbstract
In recent years, the importance of sleep has attracted more and more attention in the practice of sports activities, highlighting its importance due to its links with sports achievements, intellectual activity, physical health and mental well-being of athletes. The purpose of the study is to identify the most relevant sources of scientific research on the system “sleep-athlete” for its actualization, demonstration of significance and simplification of information availability to all participants at the sports practice. Materials and methods of the study: Internet network monitoring; quantification method; tagging method; relevance method; citation analysis method; method of mapping through the Litmaps application. Results. The data obtained by us in the course of bibliometric and bibliographic analysis allowed: to form a list of information sources of the “sleep-athlete” system in the scientometric databases Scopus, ResearchGate, PubMed, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar for the last 10 years; to identify the categories of keywords of the studied “sleep-athlete” system; to select four information sources from each surveyed scientometric database according to the largest number of matches with the main categories of keywords of the studied system “sleep-athlete”; to form a list of 20 relevant information sources in accordance with the largest number of matches with the main categories of keywords of the “sleep-athlete” system under study and to present them in the form of an author’s development – an information map of the “sleep-athlete” system. Conclusions. The data obtained by us during the bibliometric and bibliographic analysis made it possible to develop an information map of literary sources on the Internet, in particular five main scientometric databases, for further research into the effectiveness of introducing into general access and use of the author’s map of relevant sources of the “sleep-athlete” system as an information tool for all those wishing to obtain relevant and reliable information on the problematic issue we have studied.
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