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From Paper to Podium: Quantifying the Translational Potential of Performance Nutrition Research

Overview of attention for article published in Sports Medicine, January 2019
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Title
From Paper to Podium: Quantifying the Translational Potential of Performance Nutrition Research
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Sports Medicine, January 2019
DOI 10.1007/s40279-018-1005-2
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Authors

Graeme L. Close, Andreas M. Kasper, James P. Morton

Abstract

Sport nutrition is one of the fastest growing and evolving disciplines of sport and exercise science, demonstrated by a 4-fold increase in the number of research papers between 2012 and 2018. Indeed, the scope of contemporary nutrition-related research could range from discovery of novel nutrient-sensitive cell-signalling pathways to the assessment of the effects of sports drinks on exercise performance. For the sport nutrition practitioner, the goal is to translate innovations in research to develop and administer practical interventions that contribute to the delivery of winning performances. Accordingly, step one in the translation of research to practice should always be a well-structured critique of the translational potential of the existing scientific evidence. To this end, we present an operational framework (the "Paper-2-Podium Matrix") that provides a checklist of criteria for which to prompt the critical evaluation of performance nutrition-related research papers. In considering the (1) research context, (2) participant characteristics, (3) research design, (4) dietary and exercise controls, (5) validity and reliability of exercise performance tests, (6) data analytics, (7) feasibility of application, (8) risk/reward and (9) timing of the intervention, we aimed to provide a time-efficient framework to aid practitioners in their scientific appraisal of research. Ultimately, it is the combination of boldness of reform (i.e. innovations in research) and quality of execution (i.e. ease of administration of practical solutions) that is most likely to deliver the transition from paper to podium.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 251 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 51 20%
Student > Bachelor 28 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 8%
Researcher 18 7%
Other 17 7%
Other 43 17%
Unknown 73 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 88 35%
Nursing and Health Professions 29 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 3%
Other 21 8%
Unknown 75 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 214. 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 19 December 2023.
All research outputs
#188,954
of 26,154,283 outputs
Outputs from Sports Medicine
#179
of 2,925 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,925
of 450,836 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sports Medicine
#2
of 49 outputs
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