Table 1

Details of the IOC consensus statements (2003–2020) and bibliometric measures of their impact and academic reach (as at December 2021)

IOC statement title*	Statement Year*	No of ‘core’ pub.	Field Weighted Citation Impact†	Total no citations†	Total no ‘citing’ pubs.‡	No countries for the authors of the ‘core’ pubs.‡	No countries for the authors of the ‘citing’ pubs.‡
1. Athletes who have changed sex	2004	0	§	§	§	§	§
2. Sudden cardiovascular death in sport	2004	0	§	§	§	§	§
3. The female athlete triad	2005	0	§	§	§	§	§
4. Training the elite child athlete	2005	3	7.4	92	89	8	33
5. Sexual harassment and abuse in sport	2007	0	§	§	§	§	§
6. Molecular basis of connective tissue and muscle injuries in sport	2007	1	1.7	42	42	8	23
7. Asthma in elite athletes	2008	0	§	§	§	§	§
8. Knee injury	2008	0	§	§	§	§	§
28. Age determination in high-level young athletes¶	2009	1	2.5	72	71	6	29
9. Fasting and sport	2009	0	§	§	§	§	§
10. Periodic health evaluation of elite athletes	2009	1	1.6	334	327	10	65
11. Sports nutrition	2010	3	1.2	64	63	§	29
29. Thermoregulatory and altitude challenges in the high-level athlete¶	2011	1	4.3	113	114	11	40
12. Use of platelet-rich plasma in sports medicine	2011	1	10.3	203	202	14	40
13. Health and fitness of young people through physical activity and sport	2011	†2	2.6	103	103	13	42
14. Body composition health and performance in sport	2012	1	5.5	288	289	5	53
15. Concussion in sport	2013	17	16.9	5198	4270	11	74
16. Prevention and management of chronic disease	2013	3	1.7	81	81	10	30
17. Youth athletic development	2015	1	20.2	346	342	10	47
18. Sex reassignment and hyperandrogenism	2015	0	§	§	§	§	§
19. Exercise and pregnancy in sport	2015	1	7.5	51	52	10	23
20. Harassment and abuse in sport	2015	1	7.3	137	139	6	30
21. Beyond the female athlete triad—relative energy deficiency in sport	2015	5	14.6	951	764	8	56
22. Health consequences of a saturated sports calendar	2016	3	12.7	549	472	12	51
23. Pain management	2016	†2	1.4	57	64	11	28
24. Dietary supplements and the high-performance athlete	2017	3	9.8	354	345	10	58
25. Serious knee injuries in children	2017	3	2.6	95	92	12	29
26. Mental health in elite athletes	2018	2	10.3	225	222	14	44
27. Methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport	2019	3	24.3	180	170	12	39
Total for the combined list	§	61	10.4**	9535	7863**	34**	104**

*From IOC website https://olympics.com/ioc/medical-research/consensus-statements and the number refers to that list.
†Data extracted from SciVal on 30 January 2022 from Scopus data of 19 January 2022.
‡Data extracted from Scopus on 26 February 2022.
§Not applicable.
¶Not on the IOC website list.
**Based on the whole group, not the sum of the individual parts.
IOC, International Olympic Committee.