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Anal."],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Introduction<\/jats:title><jats:p>In Italy, legislation in Exercise and sports sciences (ESS) had significant progress, particularly in physical and sport education, as well as sport pedagogy for compulsory teaching of Physical education by master's degree' specialist teachers, for the new profession of kinesiologist and, first the reform of Italian Constitution about social and educational value of movement and sport. The aim of this study was to measure the specific scientific output in ESS and its impact on the scientific community.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Data on global scientific production related to the keywords \u201cPhysical education,\u201d \u201cSport education,\u201d and \u201cSport pedagogy\u201d were extracted from the Scopus database, including total citations and h-index. Trends among Italian researchers were also examined. Data on the overall scientific output and specific trends of Italian researchers were extracted, along with total citations and h-index. The trends of total and relative metrics (citations and h-index) for the period 2020\u20132023 were evaluated using Spearman's correlation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Analysis of global scientific production on Scopus revealed 31 ESS faculty members (7 full professors, 15 associate professors and 9 researchers) for \u201cSport Education\u201d keyword, 11 ESS faculty members (2 full professors, 5 associate professors, and 4 researcher) for \u201cSport Pedagogy,\u201d and 18 ESS faculty members (7 full professors, 7 associate professors and 4 researcher) for \u201cPhysical Education.\u201d Less than half of these researchers are directly framed with ESS. However, despite this minority representation, significant positive correlations emerged between total citations and total H-index for the period 2020\u20132023 (<jats:italic>rs<\/jats:italic> = 0.83), relative citations and relative H-index (<jats:italic>rs<\/jats:italic> = 0.61), relative citation and total H-index (<jats:italic>rs<\/jats:italic> = 0.32).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The positive correlation found between relative citations and the total h-index indicated these scholars had a greater impact with studies relevant to the identified keywords compared to other general topics. 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