Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine sport volunteering studies conducted between 2002 and 2023 and scanned in the Scopus database in terms of bibliometric characteristics. The research was carried out with the bibliometric analysis method. Scopus database was used as a data collection tool in the study. The study included 178 studies conducted between 2002 and 20223 from the Scopus database. The analysis of the research was carried out with bibliometrix and biblioshiny packages in the R software program. Within the scope of the research, descriptive information on sports volunteering, authors with the highest number of publications and their productivity by years, number of citations, collaborations, the most influential authors, journals and countries with the most influential publications and collaborations, the most used keywords, trending topics and thematic map and all the details of sports volunteering were mentioned. As a result of the research findings, it has been determined that the researcher who has done the most studies on sports volunteering is "Geoff Nichols", the most publishing journals are "Sport Management Revıew" and "European Sport Management Quarterly", and the most used keyword is "volunteering". According to the research results, volunteer motivation and volunteer satisfaction were found to be trending areas of study. Finally, the themes of the field were determined by thematic map analysis and guiding results were reached in many subjects.
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