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The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent

Overview of attention for article published in Sports Medicine, February 2016
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Title
The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent
Published in
Sports Medicine, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/s40279-016-0476-2
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Authors

Tim Rees, Lew Hardy, Arne Güllich, Bruce Abernethy, Jean Côté, Tim Woodman, Hugh Montgomery, Stewart Laing, Chelsea Warr

Abstract

The literature base regarding the development of sporting talent is extensive, and includes empirical articles, reviews, position papers, academic books, governing body documents, popular books, unpublished theses and anecdotal evidence, and contains numerous models of talent development. With such a varied body of work, the task for researchers, practitioners and policy makers of generating a clear understanding of what is known and what is thought to be true regarding the development of sporting talent is particularly challenging. Drawing on a wide array of expertise, we address this challenge by avoiding adherence to any specific model or area and by providing a reasoned review across three key overarching topics: (a) the performer; (b) the environment; and (c) practice and training. Within each topic sub-section, we review and calibrate evidence by performance level of the samples. We then conclude each sub-section with a brief summary, a rating of the quality of evidence, a recommendation for practice and suggestions for future research. These serve to highlight both our current level of understanding and our level of confidence in providing practice recommendations, but also point to a need for future studies that could offer evidence regarding the complex interactions that almost certainly exist across domains.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Qatar 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 733 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 117 16%
Student > Bachelor 116 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 91 12%
Researcher 52 7%
Student > Postgraduate 34 5%
Other 127 17%
Unknown 203 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 359 49%
Psychology 61 8%
Social Sciences 24 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 2%
Other 54 7%
Unknown 215 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 247. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 November 2023.
All research outputs
#153,192
of 25,758,211 outputs
Outputs from Sports Medicine
#139
of 2,897 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,619
of 408,044 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sports Medicine
#4
of 61 outputs
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