Table 3.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria in the search for (A) all sports, (B) the summer, and (C) winter Olympic sports.
| A. ALL SPORTS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exclusion topic | Exclusion items | |||
| Animal | Rats, mice, mouse, dog, cat, horse, fish | |||
| Paralympic | Disabl#, paral#, wheelchair | |||
| Ultra-sport | Ultra | |||
| Retracted articles | Retract# | |||
| Sports | Inclusion items | Nb articles | Exclusion | Nb articles |
| B. SUMMER SPORTS | ||||
| Archery | Archery, archer | 43 | 43 | |
| Athletics | athletics, decathlon, decathlete, heptathlon, heptathlete, track and field, track-and-field javelin, shot put, shot-put, shot putter, high jump, long jump, discus throw, triple jump, pole vault, pole-vault, pole-vaulter, hammer throw, steeple chase, hurdle, hurdler, sprint, sprinter, sprinting, relay | 8,492 | Athlete, cycling, cyclist, swim, ski, skier, football, soccer, rugby, repeated-sprint | 1,586 |
| Badminton | Badminton | 143 | 143 | |
| Baseball | Baseball | 953 | 949 | |
| Basketball | Basketball, basket player | 1,064 | 1,042 | |
| Boxing | Boxing, boxer | 225 | 223 | |
| Canoe-Kayak | Canoe, kayak, canoeist, kayaker, kayakist, paddler | 184 | 180 | |
| Cycling | Cycling, cyclist, bike, bicycle, bicycling, BMX | 3,809 | Triathlon, triathlete, mountain bike | 3,550 |
| Diving | Diving, diver, springboard | 435 | Breath-hold, scuba, apnea, football, pearl diver, decompression | 52 |
| Equestrian | Equestrian, horseman, horsemen, horse rider, horse-rider, horse riding, horse-riding, equitation | 58 | 52 | |
| Fencing | Fencing, fencer | 90 | 90 | |
| Field Hockey | Field hockey, hockey | 166 | ice | 167 |
| Football | Football, soccer, foot player, footballer | 5,444 | American football, league football, NFL, Gaelic football, Australian rules football, rugby football, quarterback | 4,937 |
| Golf | Golf, golfer | 491 | 491 | |
| Gymnastics | Gymnastics, gymnastic, gymnast, floor exercise, horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, uneven bars, balance beam | 429 | 428 | |
| Handball | Handball, handballer | 440 | 440 | |
| Judo | Judo, judoka | 262 | 261 | |
| Karate | Karate, karateka | 114 | 113 | |
| Marathon—running | Marathon, marathoner, running, runner, middle-distance, long-distance | 2,030 | all sports but running | 1,499 |
| Modern pentathlon | Pentathlon, pentathlete | 12 | 12 | |
| Mountain biking | Mountain bike, mountainbike, mountain biker | 70 | 64 | |
| Rowing | Rowing, rower | 678 | 673 | |
| Rugby sevens | Rugby sevens | 89 | 89 | |
| Sailing | Sailing, sailer, sailor, windsurfing, windsurfer | 110 | 109 | |
| Shooting | Shooting, shooter, riffle | 135 | football, soccer, handball, basketball | 55 |
| Skateboarding | Skateboarding, skateboarder | 27 | 27 | |
| Softball | Softball | 123 | 122 | |
| Sport Climbing | climbing, climber | 512 | step, stair, ladder, altitude, cyclist, cycling, mountaineer, mountaineering | 338 |
| Surfing | Surfing, surf, surfer | 124 | windsurf | 100 |
| Swimming | Swimming, swimmer, butterfly, backstroke, freestyle, free style, breaststroke, front crawl, frontcrawl, front-crawl | 2,268 | 2,009 | |
| Table Tennis | Table tennis | 90 | 90 | |
| Taekwondo | Taekwondo | 159 | 159 | |
| Tennis | Tennis | 1,054 | Table tennis | 954 |
| Trampoline | Trampoline | 43 | 41 | |
| Triathlon | Triathlon, triathlete | 548 | Ironman | 425 |
| Volleyball | Volleyball, volley-ball, volley ball, beach volley, volley player | 606 | 602 | |
| Walking | Walking, walker | 323 | 319 | |
| Waterpolo | Waterpolo, water polo, water-polo | 150 | 136 | |
| Weightlifting | Weightlifting, weightlifter | 264 | 264 | |
| Wrestling | Wrestling, wrestler | 405 | 400 | |
| C. WINTER SPORTS | ||||
| Alpine—freestyle skiing | Alpine skiing, alpine ski, alpine skier, freestyle skiing, freestyle ski, freestyle skier, giant slalom, slalom | 300 | Canoe, kayak, water ski, water-ski | 294 |
| Biathlon | Biathlon, biathlete | 47 | 47 | |
| Bobsleigh | Bobsleigh, bobsled | 7 | 7 | |
| Curling | Curling, curler | 8 | 8 | |
| Ice Hockey | Ice hockey, ice-hockey, NHL, National Hockey League | 540 | 540 | |
| Luge | Luge | 6 | 6 | |
| Nordic skiing | Cross-country ski, cross-country skier, cross-country skiing, Crosscountry ski, crosscountry skier, ski jumping, ski jumper, Nordic combined | 369 | 369 | |
| Skating | Ice skating, ice skater, Ice-skating, ice-skater short track, skating, skate, figure skate, speed skating, speed skater | 380 | roller | 334 |
| Skeleton | Skeleton | 17 | 12 | |
| Snowboard | Snowboard, snowboarding, snowboarder | 152 | 152 | |
The number of articles found with the inclusion criteria and with the subsequent exclusion criteria and “manual cleaning” of the database are displayed.