Table_1_A bibliometric review of coach leadership studies.DOCX

This study examined published articles concerning sports leadership within the sport psychology domain over the last 30 years using bibliometric analysis that centered on the written content of the publications as unit of analysis in order to explore the intellectual base, particularly the structural relationships among relevant research components about coach leadership. Leximancer version 5.0 (Leximancer Pty Ltd.) was used to extract data from 100 sports leadership-related articles from four sport psychology journals. Overall, the most relevant concepts generated were coaches (100%) and athletes (59%), followed by study, sport, support, and motivation, and behaviors. Also, relevant concepts produced for each journal were quite similar which included coaches, athletes, behaviors, study, support and team. Further, publications related to coach leadership have shown a steady growth rate since 1990 with 76% of all published articles were conducted via quantitative research method. Finally, United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Belgium were the top countries involved in the area of coach leadership. Coach leadership studies generally focus on behaviors and perceptions related to the coach and relationships between leadership and psychological outcomes. Each journal has a similar but distinct rationale when publishing papers about coach leadership. Bibliometric analysis can be applied as an alternative methodology to summarize large volumes of relevant data in order to map the current knowledge as well as identify potential future research directions.

本研究采用文献计量分析方法，以近30年来运动心理学领域内有关体育领导力的已发表文献为研究对象，以文献文本内容作为分析单元，旨在探析该领域的知识基础，尤其是教练员领导力相关研究要素间的结构关系。本研究使用Leximancer 5.0版本（Leximancer Pty Ltd.），从4种运动心理学期刊的100篇与体育领导力相关的文献中提取数据。整体而言，提取得到的核心概念依次为教练员（100%）、运动员（59%），其次为研究、体育、支持、动机与行为。此外，各期刊对应的提取相关概念高度相似，均包含教练员、运动员、行为、研究、支持与团队。进一步而言，自1990年以来，与教练员领导力相关的文献发表量呈稳步增长态势，其中76%的已发表文献采用定量研究方法完成。最后，美国、加拿大、英国与比利时是教练员领导力研究领域的核心参与国家。教练员领导力研究通常聚焦于与教练员相关的行为与认知，以及领导力与心理产出之间的关联。各期刊在刊发教练员领导力相关论文时，秉持相似却各具特色的办刊逻辑。文献计量分析可作为一种替代性研究方法，用于汇总海量相关数据，以勾勒当前知识图谱并识别潜在的未来研究方向。