Data and code for: Psychological readiness for return to sport after musculoskeletal injury — a bibliometric analysis of 577 publications and the instruments used to measure it (2001–2026)

This archive contains the material needed to reproduce the bibliometric analyses reported in the manuscript "Psychological readiness for return to sport after musculoskeletal injury: a bibliometric analysis of 577 publications and the instruments used to measure it (2001–2026)". Contents: the bibliographic record of all 577 included publications (database, year, source, DOI, PMID/accession, first-author country, title); the full Web of Science and PubMed search strings; the R and Python scripts used for retrieval, cleaning, screening, merging, figures and tables; and the aggregate tables S1–S3. What is not included: abstracts and author keyword lists are not redistributed because they are subject to the Clarivate Web of Science licence and to PubMed terms of use. They can be regenerated exactly by running the search strings provided in the archive.