TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Pérez-Gutiérrez, Mikel
AU  - Gutiérrez-García, Carlos
AU  - Escobar Molina, Raquel
PY  - 2011
SN  - 1643-8698
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31539
AB  - Background and Study Aim: Martial Arts and Combat Sports (MA&CS) terminology is diverse and heterogeneous, limiting the research visibility and information retrieval. This study points out the different terms related to MA&CS names included in the...
AB  - Material/Methods: Web of Science (WOS) databases SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI for the period 2000-2009 were used for generating the data. A list of 278 searching terms was compiled, each of them enter individually in WOS databases. Results were collected...
AB  - Results: 53.2% searching terms showed no result, 14.0% obtained some result but not related to MA&CS, and 32.7% showed results related to MA&CS. Specific terminology is quite standardized, although there are some MA&CS showing different names....
AB  - Conclusions: MA&CS terminology used in scientific literature is quite varied and can cause diverse problems and slow down researcher’s bibliographic data collection. Romanization, popularization of some terms, names given to MA&CS by different...
LA  - eng
PB  - International Scientific Literature Inc.
KW  - Scientific databases
KW  - Information retrieval
KW  - Precision
KW  - Indexing
KW  - Documentary analysis
TI  - Terminological recommendations for improving the visibility of scientific literature on martial arts and combat sports
ER  -