（School of Physical Education，Henan Normal University，Xinxiang 453007，China) Abstract: Based on the research perspective of co-word analysis, with the help of software such as Bicomb, UCINET 6.0 and SPASS 22.0, the authors carried out a statistical analysis on 1 289 foreign infant sports related ar-ticles collected in the database of Web of Science between 1989 and 2019. The authors revealed the following find-ings: physical activity, obesity prevention, accelerometer, basic movement skill, family and intervention were for-eign infant sports research hot topics; hindering infant development and family intervention, ecological support for infant health, infant movement ability development, as well as health promotion and medical fusion, were 4 topics of foreign infant sports research, involving multiple fields such as sociology, psychology, education and medicine; research method diversification, future family’s child care, and the intervention of movement ability of infants of different genders, will become research focuses. Inspirations to Chinese infant sports development: change the re-search paradigm from quantitative or qualitative research to mixed research; strengthen the fusion of interdiscipli-nary knowledge; value local discourse; enhance the innovation awareness.
Key words: infant sports；infant health promotion；research progress；co-words analysis |
