ArticleHeliyon2023
What is esports? A systematic scoping review and concept analysis of esports.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association Between Esports Participation and Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of Acute and Chronic Physical Exercise on Esports Performance: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine - open · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of Electronic Sports on Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Study.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026Trial
- Can different exercise modalities improve esports performance? Study protocol for a 12-week three-arm randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2026Trial
- Injuries and Overuse Injuries in Esports.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Social image presentation of virtual sports in social media through the analysis of Twitter data.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Non-Olympic sports in a stratified sport system: perspectives on institutional constraints and sustainability.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Effect of Physical Exercise on Esports Performance in First-Person Shooter Gamers: A Six-Week Randomized Controlled Trial.Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- Effects of Competitive Exergaming-Based Esports on Older Adults in Hong Kong: Nonrandomized Controlled Pilot Study.JMIR serious games · 2025Article
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- Exploratory study of qualitative psychological factors influencing performance in esports.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Whose game is it anyway? Palworld and the new frontier of intellectual property in eSports.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Review
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- An exploratory qualitative interview study on grassroots esports in sports clubs.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Synergistic fields: Unveiling the potential win-win relationship between esports performance and traditional sports participation.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study conducted a systematic scoping review to collect definitions and explanations of esports and its related concepts in the existing literature. A thematic coding approach was used to screen possible disagreements and issues between the different characteristics of esports as presented in the existing definitions. Based on a critical discussion, the results of the coding were combined with the objective facts of the current esports industry and theories from similar fields to reconstruct the construction of an esports definition. In addition, the relationship between esports and its related concepts was discussed based on the proposed esports definition structure. The proposed esports criteria can help avoid misunderstandings and confusion in future studies regarding the research subjects related to esports and propose standardized usage of relevant terms in the field of esports research.
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