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| ORIGINAL ARTICLE |
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| Year : 2023 | Volume
: 12
| Issue : 1 | Page : 21-26 |
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Content analysis of papers published in Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE) between 2013 and 2022
Roosfa Hashim
Department of Library and Information Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| Date of Submission | 07-May-2022 |
| Date of Decision | 12-Jun-2023 |
| Date of Web Publication | 27-Jun-2023 |
Correspondence Address:
Roosfa Hashim
Department of Library and Information Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/mohe.mohe_4_23
Background: There are several scientific journals in the field of sports science that have been published in Malaysia. One of these journals that has been published regularly is Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE).
Aims and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyse the development trends of subjects studied and published in MoHE between 2013 and 2022.
Materials and Methods: A total of 174 articles published in 18 issues of MoHE between 2013 and 2022 were analysed. This study was conducted quantitatively by tracking the highest percentage of various subfields that have been published in MoHE. Therefore, the focus of this study is on the keywords listed at the end of each abstract for articles that have been published in MoHE.
Results: This study found that MoHE has become a popular platform for researchers in the field of sports science to publish their research findings. Several subjects and important subtopics in the field of sports science have been identified as the focus of papers published in the MoHE.
Conclusion: This study has proven that MoHE has been accepted as a platform for scientific debate and discussion in the field of sports science.
Keywords: Content analysis, information science, library and information science, scholarly journal articles, sports science, statistical analysis
How to cite this article:
Hashim R. Content analysis of papers published in Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE) between 2013 and 2022. Malays J Mov Health Exerc 2023;12:21-6 |
How to cite this URL:
Hashim R. Content analysis of papers published in Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE) between 2013 and 2022. Malays J Mov Health Exerc [serial online] 2023 [cited 2023 Sep 25];12:21-6. Available from: http://www.mohejournal.org/text.asp?2023/12/1/21/379850 |
| Introduction | |  |
Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE) is a scholarly journal published by the Sports Section, Policy Planning and Research Division and Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. It is a peer-reviewed journal, published in printed and online versions. According to its official website, MoHE is a semi-annual journal and registered under several abstracting databases, including MyCite, Baidu Scholar, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, TDNet and Wanfang Data.
MoHE has a mission to provide a publication platform that reflects recent findings and theoretical development in areas related to Human Movement Studies, Sports Engineering, Human Performance, Physical Activity and Health, Sports Medicine, Management and Sports Studies and Rehabilitation those that have multi- and interdisciplinary relevance. MoHE accepted articles in English and Bahasa Malaysia (MoHE, 2023).
There are many studies that have been conducted on the performance of scholarly journals in Malaysia. For example, Maidin et al. (2009) have studied the development and progress of journal publishing in Malaysia. While Akhir (2010) studied on the achievement and impact publication strategies made by Universiti Malaysia Perlis. A relatively recent study by Ahmad Jahidi and Abdul Hamid (2014) studied the academic work productivity of lecturers in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Civilisation at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. In another study, Suryani et al. (2013) also studied research publication output by academics in public and private universities in Malaysia. On the other hand, Yazit and Zainab (2007) have reported on the publication productivity of Malaysian authors and institutions in the area of Library and Information Science. Before that, Zainab et al. (2012) published their study on adding value to Malaysian scholarly journals through MyCite, a Malaysian citation indexing system (Malaysian Citation Centre, 2023). There are several more studies about the performance of Malaysian journals (Hashim, 2012a; 2012b; 2012c; Hashim and Kasan, 2012). Ibrahim et al. (2013) analyze the role of Islamic studies in various institutions of higher learning in Malaysia in dealing with the issue of liberal Islam. Scholarly journal researchers have focused heavily on publications in the field of Islamic studies. For example, Khoubnasabjafari et al. (2012) have reported on the research performances of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). Zainuddin, (2015) has presented his research findings on the thematic study of Islamic perspective in Scopus indexed articles, its Implications on medical imaging. In addition, Sharuddin et al. (2016) have presented their analysis report on Malaysian scholarly publications in the field of Islamic studies Indexed in Scopus database 2010-2015.
Dess (2006) studied the performance of journals in Scopus, while Jarvelin and Vakkari (2022) studied the Library and Information Science Research across 50 years with a focus on the content analysis of journal articles. Reed et al. (2021) discuss the impact of the research that has been done by looking at the publications produced.
Although there are many studies that have reported on the development and performance of scientific journals in Malaysia in various fields, there has been no study done on journals in the field of sports science. MoHE is one of the sports journals that have survived in Malaysia. Other sports journals that were published earlier have been discontinued. Therefore, after being published for over 10 years, it is good to see how the MoHE journal is doing. Is the MoHE published in time, with a sufficient number of papers? What fields and subfields are developing in this journal?
This study focuses on (1) the performance of MoHE from 2013 to 2022. (2) Researching the development of the field of knowledge in the MoHE by analysing the keywords from all articles that have been published in the MoHE for the 2013–2022 issue.
The thesis to be established in this study is that as a journal that represents the field of sports science, MoHE becomes a platform that debates various important aspects in this field. This can be seen from the focus of the study of articles published in MoHE. From the keywords specified at the end of the abstract of each article, two things can be seen. The first is MoHE's area of specialisation, and the second is MoHE's strength as a journal in the field of sports science. Therefore, from 2013 to 2022, what are the fields and subfields of sports science that are most reported, discussed and debated in the articles published in MoHE?
This study was conducted with several limitations. First, this study focuses only on 174 articles published by the MoHE journal between 2013 and 2022. However, the MoHE journal website states that there are a total of 194 articles published in the period of the study from 2013 to 2022. Between 2013 and 2022, the MoHE journal has not published a consistent number of articles for each issue. There are MoHE issues that publish only six articles, and there are issues that publish up to 18 articles. Data for the study were also not generated from previous Movement Health Exercise (MoHE) journals that were published before 2013.
Second, the analysis for this study was made on all the keywords listed by each article without taking into account the accuracy of the keywords listed. This study found that there are keywords listed by the author without making sure whether the words are among the subjects listed in the field of sports science. There are also abstracts that listed keywords in the form of common words that do not represent the subject of the field; for example, sports, questionnaire and validation. In fact, many of the keywords listed in the MoHE articles are not listed in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) or any standard subject list. LCSH is a multidisciplinary vocabulary that includes headings in all subjects, from science to religion, to history, social science, education, literature and philosophy. It also includes headings for geographic features, ethnic groups, historical events and building names.
Another thing that is also a problem is the number of keywords for each article that is not consistent. This study found that there is standard number of keywords for articles published in this journal. An abstract usually lists 3–5 keywords. However, there are also abstracts that only have two keywords; for example, in issues 6(2) and 9(1). In issue number 7(1), there are two articles whose abstract lists six and seven keywords; whereas in issue number 7(2), there are articles with six and 10 keywords. There are also repeated occurrences of keywords in the same abstract; for example, papers in issue 7(1). Regardless of the number of keywords in a paper, all keywords have been collected as data.
Third, another issue that arises is the use of mixed British and American spelling; for example, for the words 'behavior' and 'behaviour', 'analyzer' and 'analyser'. There are even articles that only list keywords only in Malay; for example, for issue 5(2). Moreover, keywords for three articles in issue 8(2) have been translated for this study. To solve this problem, all keywords have been changed to British spelling.
| Research Method | | |
According to most experts, the major elements that are considered for performing content analysis are words, characters, themes, paragraphs, concepts, items and semantics. It is very important to capture the relevant information needed for the content analysis so that there are enough data for the intended content analysis. Therefore, for this study, words and themes that appear in the keywords at the end of each abstract have been used as research data.
There are five types of texts in content analysis:
- Written text, such as books and papers
- Oral text, such as speech and theatrical performance
- Iconic text, such as drawings, paintings and icons
- Audio-visual text, such as television programs, movies and videos
- Hypertexts, which are texts found on the internet.
Based on the characterisation above, this study uses the keywords as data to be analysed. The general steps for conducting a conceptual content analysis are: (1) decide the level of analysis: word, word sense, phrase, sentence and themes. (2) Decide how many concepts to code for: develop a pre-defined or interactive set of categories or concepts. Steps of content analysis include the preparation of data and defining the unit or theme of analysis, which means classifying the content into themes, which can be a word, phrase or sentence (Elo et al., 2014).
To carry out this study, the author focused on the keywords listed at the end of the abstract of each paper published in MoHE. Listing the right keywords is an important thing for every writer. Keywords are a tool to help indexers and search engines find relevant papers. If database search engines can find your journal manuscript, readers will be able to find it too. This will increase the number of people reading your manuscript, and likely lead to more citations. Being strategic when choosing the keywords for an article can ensure that it can be easily found by others in the field, which gives the research a higher potential of informing other researchers and being cited.
Keyword research helps us find which keywords are the best to target and provides valuable insight into the queries that researchers are actually searching for. Keywords are important because they tell search engines about the content of your paper. 'Keyword' is also a term that is used to refer to the words and phrases that people enter into a search engine to find information that they are looking for.
For members of the Editorial Board of a scientific journal, keywords can give an idea of whether an article is related to the focus area of their journal. Likewise, a reviewer can decide whether an article being evaluated can be approved for publication. Since there has not yet been a study that specifically evaluates the performance of a scientific journal in the field of sports like MoHE, this study is exploratory in nature, i.e., a preliminary study.
To conduct this study, the keywords listed at the end of each abstract were collected. All these abstracts are arranged alphabetically. The appearance of these keywords in each article is recorded and counted. Finally, the keywords that appear the most are grouped according to related topics and subfields, and the percentage is calculated.
The data obtained are used to track the composition of articles that are related to MoHE's field of specialisation, i.e. areas related to Human Movement Studies, Sports Engineering, Human Performance, Physical Activity and Health, Sports Medicine, Management and Sports Studies and Rehabilitation those that have multi- and interdisciplinary relevance.
| Findings | | |
This study found that between 2013 and 2022, a total of 18 issues of MoHE have been published. However, in 2013 and 2014, only one issue of this journal was published each year. After that, from 2015, MoHE is published twice a year. Out of a total of 18 issues, a total of 174 articles were published. Out of that number, 10 articles are in Malay, and the rest are in English. For all papers in Malay, all keywords have been translated into English for data calculation purposes. Out of the total, two articles are case reports. Meanwhile, two other articles are in the form of review articles.
Development trends in the field of sports science can be seen after all the keywords that appear in MoHE are analysed. Of the 174 articles that have been published, there are as many as 648 keywords listed in the abstracts listed on the published articles. From these, 648 keywords and specific subfields can be detected that frequently appear in MoHE throughout the period from 2013 to 2022. The topics and subfields that appear most frequently in MoHE are presented in [Table 1], [Table 2], [Table 3], [Table 4], [Table 5], [Table 6], [Table 7]. | Table 1: Percentage breakdown of various fields observed in articles published in Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise
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 | Table 3: Percentage breakdown of various subfields under sports medicine
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 | Table 4: Percentage breakdown of various subfields under physical activity and health
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 | Table 5: Percentage breakdown of various subfields under human performance
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 | Table 6: Percentage breakdown of various subfields under management and sports studies
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 | Table 7: Percentage breakdown of various subfields under rehabilitation (multi- and interdisciplinary relevance)
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If viewed in terms of the development of fields and subfields over time, the topic of physical activity remains studied in almost every issue of MoHE. This includes physical education and physical fitness. A subtopic that is becoming increasingly popular is about football.
| Discussion | | |
From [Table 1], [Table 2], [Table 3], [Table 4], [Table 5], [Table 6], [Table 7], it is clear that sports science (29.4%), sports medicine (25.1%) and physical activity and health (24.5%) have been the most discussed topics in the MoHE throughout the study period. This fact in itself has proven that MoHE is a scientific journal in the field of sports science. Therefore, the challenge for MoHE now is to get as many citations as possible from writers and researchers in the field of sports science.
There are only 3.3% of keywords that are included in the group of various subfields, namely, rehabilitation (multi- and interdisciplinary relevance). This percentage is too small when compared to various topics and subtopics in the field of sports science that have clearly entered their respective groups. Although this study only uses percentages as a quantitative calculation method, this is sufficient to identify various topics of fields and subfields in sports science.
| Conclusion and Way Forward for MoHE | | |
As mentioned in the early part of this article, the purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of MoHE from 2013 to 2022. Another aim of this study was to present the development of the field of knowledge in the MoHE by analysing keywords from all articles that have been published in the MoHE for the 2013–2022 issue.
This study has proven that as a journal representing the field of sports science, MoHE has succeeded in becoming a scholarly platform that debates various important aspects in this field. This can be seen from the focus of the study of the articles published in MoHE throughout the study period from 2013 to 2022. From the keywords stated at the end of the abstract of each article, two things can be seen. First, MoHE's areas of specialisation and various important subfields in the field of sports science have been discussed in this journal. Second, the strength of MoHE as a sports science journal. Therefore, from 2013 to 2022, it has been possible to detect some of the most debated and discussed fields and subfields in the articles published in the MoHE.
As a future step, the MoHE Editorial Team must take several actions to strengthen the MoHE. First, the keywords for each article must be checked to ensure accuracy and relevance to the field of sports science. Second, MoHE must set its language, either using British or American English. Third, further research needs to be done to see the performance of MoHE in the various databases where this journal is listed.
In future studies, larger data analysis in cross-tabulations and correlations as well as matrix calculation should be carried out using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) IBM TechXchange Community, New York, United States and Clementine 12.0. Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE) is actually the new branding of the journal Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE). Before rebranding, the original journal published 84 issues. Therefore, one of the best options for future studies is to generate data from original journals for a more extensive study. Furthermore, according to MyCite, the original journal of MoHE, which was published before 2013, has citation records and an H-index of 2.
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