Fig 1.
The methodological framework of competitive sports research based on the BERTopic model.
Fig 2.
Schematic representation of the BERTopic modeling pipeline.
Table 1.
Overview of representative research topics in the field of competitive sports.
Fig 3.
Representative keywords and their corresponding weights for selected research topics.
Fig 4.
Cosine similarity matrix of research topics in competitive sports.
Fig 5.
Hierarchical clustering dendrogram of research topics in competitive sports.
Fig 6.
Intertopic distance map visualizing the semantic relationships between competitive sports research topics.
Fig 7.
The evolutionary trends of the top 10 research topics in competitive sports (2010–2024).
Table 2.
Quantitative statistics and regression analysis of research topics in competitive sports (2010–2024).