POLISH PUBLICATIONS ON JUJUTSU (1906-2020): BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Mikel Pérez-Gutiérrez,Jacek Kulpiński,Wojciech J Cynarski,Paweł Świder

doi:10.22456/1982-8918.111543

Abstract

The aim was to perform a bibliometric analysis of Polish jujutsu publications focused on productivity, topics, and collaboration. Thus, the National Library of Poland, Polish Scientific Journals Database, Web of Science and Scopus were consulted. Results were filtered and exported to Excel 2016 for statistical analysis. 123 Polish jujutsu documents were published from 1906 to 2020. Life Sciences had the highest representation, while collaboration predominated during the last decade. Cynarski was the most productive author, while Wojdat achieved the highest collaboration index. Ido Movement for Culture was the main source for disseminating these publications. In conclusion, technical books written by single authors from a Life Sciences approach prevailed in Polish jujutsu publications during the 20th century, while scientific articles written in collaboration and also representing other approaches have prevailed in the 21st century.

Highlights

The General Theory of Fighting Arts (GTFA) (CYNARSKI, 2019) was adopted as the scientific framework, considering “Fighting arts” a collective term for various martial arts, combat sports, combat systems, self-defence systems, fencing, handto-hand combat, etc
Technical books written by single authors from a Life Sciences approach prevailed in Polish jujutsu publications during the 20th century, while scientific articles written in collaboration and representing other approaches have prevailed in the 21st century
The National Library of Poland, the Polish Scientific Journals Database as well as the main international databases such as Web of Science and Scopus were consulted for data mining, following a similar methodology used by Pérez-Gutiérrez and Gutiérrez-García (2011) for the preparation of an Asian martial arts monographs bibliography

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The General Theory of Fighting Arts (GTFA) (CYNARSKI, 2019) was adopted as the scientific framework, considering “Fighting arts” a collective term for various martial arts, combat sports, combat systems, self-defence systems, fencing, handto-hand combat, etc. Books titled Japan and the Japanese (OKSZYC, 1904), The Contemporary Japan (WEULERSSE, 1904), and Bushido– the Soul of Japan (NITOBE, 1904), as well as an article titled The Physical Education in Japan published in three different journals (PIASECKI, 1904a, 1904b, 1904c), presented this martial art to Poles, triggering their interest about it. This turning point was celebrated in 2004 with the development of the Historical Convention of Polish Jujutsu Masters, which included a training seminar and scientific conference for commemorating 100 years of jujutsu history in Poland (CYNARSKI, 2007)

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