In a recent bibliometric analysis by Millet et al,. 2021, it was found that 69% of the articles and 75% of the citations in the sports science field focused on 9 sports [football (soccer), cycling, athletics, swimming, distance & marathon running, basketball, baseball, tennis, and rowing]. Therefore, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living has organized a series of Research Topics aimed at increasing the scientific output in "underrepresented" sports, including hockey.
Hockey is a term used to denote various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. In more recent history, the word "hockey" is used in reference to either the summer sport of field hockey, which is a stick and ball game and the winter ice team skating sports of bandy and ice hockey. This is due to the fact that field hockey and other stick and ball sports and their related variants preceded games that would eventually be played on ice with ice skates, namely bandy and ice hockey, as well as sports involving dry floors such as roller hockey and floor hockey. Hockey is an invasion game that is played by two teams of eleven players. Each team’s goal is to push a small and heavy hockey ball into their opponent’s goal. Field hockey was introduced at the Olympic Games as a men's competition in 1908 Games and ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. Since then, the sport is growing in popularity, however, further research is still needed in order to understand the factors underpinning performance, as well as the mechanisms of injury and nutritional support that should be considered by athletes and coaches.
The aim of this Research Topic is to build on the existing scientific literature on hockey sports (field, ice, in-line/roller, floor hockey and bandy) and further explore training, testing, and performance at the amateur and elite levels. Specifically, we welcome papers that address:
• Factors determining performance, including technical, physiological, biomechanical, psychological and nutritional factors
• Training interventions and testing in hockey
• Injury prevention and rehabilitation in hockey
• Acute and chronic effects of hockey
• Development pathways for hockey
• Recent developments within hockey research
In a recent bibliometric analysis by Millet et al,. 2021, it was found that 69% of the articles and 75% of the citations in the sports science field focused on 9 sports [football (soccer), cycling, athletics, swimming, distance & marathon running, basketball, baseball, tennis, and rowing]. Therefore, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living has organized a series of Research Topics aimed at increasing the scientific output in "underrepresented" sports, including hockey.
Hockey is a term used to denote various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. In more recent history, the word "hockey" is used in reference to either the summer sport of field hockey, which is a stick and ball game and the winter ice team skating sports of bandy and ice hockey. This is due to the fact that field hockey and other stick and ball sports and their related variants preceded games that would eventually be played on ice with ice skates, namely bandy and ice hockey, as well as sports involving dry floors such as roller hockey and floor hockey. Hockey is an invasion game that is played by two teams of eleven players. Each team’s goal is to push a small and heavy hockey ball into their opponent’s goal. Field hockey was introduced at the Olympic Games as a men's competition in 1908 Games and ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. Since then, the sport is growing in popularity, however, further research is still needed in order to understand the factors underpinning performance, as well as the mechanisms of injury and nutritional support that should be considered by athletes and coaches.
The aim of this Research Topic is to build on the existing scientific literature on hockey sports (field, ice, in-line/roller, floor hockey and bandy) and further explore training, testing, and performance at the amateur and elite levels. Specifically, we welcome papers that address:
• Factors determining performance, including technical, physiological, biomechanical, psychological and nutritional factors
• Training interventions and testing in hockey
• Injury prevention and rehabilitation in hockey
• Acute and chronic effects of hockey
• Development pathways for hockey
• Recent developments within hockey research