Scientometric analyses of studies on the role of innate variation in athletic performance

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Table 1 Summary of the results of ISI Web of Science searches for papers published between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2012 using keywords “athlete(s)”, “athletic performance”, “sport(s)”, “digit ratio”, “myostatin”, “MSTN”, “angiotensin converting enzyme”, “ACE”, “α-actinin-3”, and “ACTN3”

	Papers found using search criteria	Papers meeting inclusion criteria
Search	N	N	Number of different journals	Number of different authors	Number of countries that authors listed as addresses
Athletic performance and
Digit ratio	33	22	15	56	12
ACE	141	74	43	400	29
ACTN3	94	49	30	222	26
MSTN	39	15	10	89	12
Total	307	160
Without athletic performance
Digit ratio	280	22	16	74	12
ACE	22,031	74	64	435	30
ACTN3	38	19	17	122	10
MSTN	1261	15	14	89	9
Total	23,610	130