From reductionism to complex systems: Paradigm shift and knowledge evolution in competitive sports research using BERTopic.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC13035114 · PMID 41911258

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Broader topics, such as Topic 0 (Injury, knee, players), showed mild positive autocorrelation (DW ≈ 1.3), reflecting the “research inertia” or cumulative advantage characteristic of established, high-volume fields; however, their growth trends remained statistically highly significant (p adj < 0.001).

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