The Development of Sports and Politics Publications Over Time

This study was conducted to examine the development of publications titled Sport and Politics over time. In the advanced search section of the Web of Science database, The bibliometric analysis of 1,529 publications was analyzed with various parameters such as “country”, “annual scientific production”, “average citation”, “frequency of words over time”. The data obtained were processed through Bibliometrix R and VOSviewer software program. The thematic evolution map shows that the words sport, foreign, government, policy from. The year 1972 was chosen as the starting point of the study, as it corresponds to the earliest publications on sport and politics indexed in the Web of Science database. 1972-2015 are related to the words policy, sport, international, leisure, sporting, football, events from 2016-2024. This shows that sport has become much broader and multifaceted in the fields of politics, culture, economy, social life and international relations. In this field, it has been suggested to examine in more depth elements such as sport policy, international sport events, economic effects of sport, social equality, cultural role of sport, commercial dimensions of the sport industry.