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Temporal trends in research output, citation rates and graduate-student success show a program punching above its weight<\/h4>\n
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The British Journal of Sports Medicine, Pediatric Exercise Science, the Journal of Exercise and Fitness and the other journals shown here are just a few of the sports-medicine journals that have published UND kinesiology researchers’ work over the past few years. Illustration by UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019d like to learn more about global fitness trends over time, and you do so by typing \u201cfitness\u201d and \u201ctemporal trends\u201d into a search engine, you\u2019ll notice something as soon as the results roll into view:<\/p>\n

Many of the top studies that show up right away — four of the first eight on Bing.com, for example, and many others on the pages that follow \u2013 involved researchers at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s no accident. Thanks to the shared interests of faculty who wound up at UND in recent years, and the partnerships and research projects that have resulted, the University\u2019s Kinesiology program in the College of Education & Human Development<\/a> has become a national leader in this key area of fitness and health.<\/p>\n

Across dozens of studies, Kinesiology graduate students<\/a> and faculty at the University have assessed topics such as young people\u2019s cardiorespiratory fitness over time, young people\u2019s handgrip strength over time, adults\u2019 handgrip strength (and six-minute walking distance) over time and similar topics.<\/p>\n

In many cases, the studies use measures such as handgrip strength and standing-broad-jump performance that are easy to gauge, have been tracked by researchers around the world for decades and are proven proxies for overall fitness and health.<\/p>\n

Also in many cases, the systematic reviews that the UND researchers conduct result in sample sizes that number in the millions. \u201cTemporal Trends in the Standing Broad Jump Performance of 10,940,801 Children and Adolescents Between 1960 and 2017,\u201d for example, is the headline in Sports Medicine that describes one recent UND-led study.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud of our reputation in this area,\u201d said Grant Tomkinson<\/a>, UND professor of Kinesiology and Public Health Education, \u201cbecause we\u2019ve put out papers that not only are being published, but are being published in top-ranking journals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means the work is getting cited more often. For example, one paper we had published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2019 has been cited 100 times, and even that is about eight times the journal\u2019s average.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Grant Tomkinson, professor of Kinesiology and Public Health Education at UND, poses with a Velotron cycle, a device used to assess riders’\u00a0power outputs across varying workloads and riding situations. UND archive photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aiming high<\/h4>\n

Moreover, Kinesiology graduate students at UND are listed as lead authors on several of the studies. In the past year, for example, two UND kinesiology alums \u2013 Faith (Dooley) Radermacher and Trevor Dufner \u2013 each saw their UND master\u2019s-degree thesis research published in Sports Medicine, the No. 2-ranked journal in the field.<\/p>\n

Those publications also led to stories in local and regional media as well as UND Today.<\/p>\n

Clearly,\u00a0\u201cthe faculty in Kinesiology are also helping to ensure that their commitment to research is being passed on to the next generation,\u201d said Cindy Juntunen, dean of the College of Education and Human Development at UND..<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir inclusion of students in research, and their support of student publications, is a testament to the ways in which teaching and research each inform and improve the other. Students with a commitment to scholarship will find top-notch mentors in the Kinesiology faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides the British Journal of Sports Medicine and Sports Medicine \u2013 the No. 1- and No. 2-ranked journals, respectively, in sports medicine \u2013 journals that have published the UND Kinesiology team\u2019s research over the past two years include Journal of Sport & Health Science, Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness, Pediatric Exercise Science and BMC Public Health, among others.<\/p>\n

And partly as a result, Kinesiology research at UND \u2014 previously unranked in this survey \u2014 ranked 51\u2013100 in the world (out of 485 sports science units worldwide) in Shanghai Ranking\u2019s 2020 Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. That put UND\u2019s program on par with the ones at Penn State, Ohio State, Texas A&M and the University of Washington, and ahead of the programs at many large U.S. universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversities are ranked by several indicators of academic or research performance, including papers indexed in Web of Science, total citations, citations per paper, papers published in top 25 percent journals, and percentage of internationally collaborated papers,\u201d Shanghai Ranking\u2019s methodology page reports.<\/p>\n

The UND program\u2019s growing visibility likely results from several factors, said John Fitzgerald<\/a>, associate professor of Kinesiology and co-author of many of the recent studies.<\/p>\n

One is the public\u2019s continuing interest in fitness and its relationship to health. Every parent wants to learn how to help their children stay healthy, and every grown-up hopes to slow the aging process, if possible, by staying active, Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n

The UND studies that track proxies such as handgrip strength can give very strong indications of a population\u2019s overall health.<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald\u2019s own status as a new dad helped point his research in that direction. \u201cI have a young family, so the health of the people around me is so important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been fun to take my passion for sport and, through these studies, apply it to general health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another reason for the program\u2019s high publication rate is the fact that while deep reviews of the literature can be very challenging, they\u2019re also highly useful and illuminating, making them great projects for graduate students and faculty alike.<\/p>\n

\"John
John Fitzgerald, associate professor of Kinesiology at UND, presents his research as one of the lecturers in the 2017-18 UND Faculty Lecture Series. The work of Fitzgerald and his colleagues has helped grow the UND kinesiology program’s prominence in recent years. UND archive photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On top from Down Under<\/h4>\n

Third and perhaps most important was Tomkinson\u2019s coming to UND in 2015, Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrant brought international attention to our program, because he\u2019s a leader in this space, and it\u2019s very powerful research,\u201d Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis being here gives us a lot of credibility; after all, he\u2019s probably published 60 articles in the past five years. That\u2019s a lot of attention coming to our program, our department and our college.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomkinson came to UND from Australia, where he\u2019d grown up, competed as a track athlete at the state and national levels, and earned his doctorate in Human Movement from the University of South Australia. So, \u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in health, fitness and physical activity,\u201d he told UND Today.<\/p>\n

In Australia, he turned that interest into (among other jobs) serving as chief lead investigator for Australia\u2019s 2014, 2015 and 2016 Report Cards on Physical Activity for Children and Young People.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as happened with Fitzgerald, fatherhood intervened. \u201cSo I start thinking, is there a way that I can try to give kids the healthiest start possible?\u201d he said. \u201cAnd one way to do that, I realized, is to learn some lessons about where we\u2019ve been with fitness in the past, and what kinds of policies and practices might help us get fitness right.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2013, Tomkinson analyzed 50 studies that included 25 million children in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The result, as National Public Radio reported: \u201cChildren around the world are less aerobically fit than their parents were as kids, a decline that researchers say could be setting them up for serious health problems once they’re grown up.\u201d<\/p>\n

At UND, Tomkinson realized, his own knowledge of cardiovascular fitness would be complemented by Fitzgerald\u2019s parallel work, which was on muscular strength. Those skillsets show up in studies such as this one, which lists both Tomkinson and Fitzgerald as among the co-authors: \u201cTemporal trends in the sit-ups performance of 9,939,289 children and adolescents between 1964 and 2017,\u201d published last year in the Journal of Sports Sciences.<\/p>\n

Tori Kaster, the study\u2019s lead author, was a UND graduate student at the time. She\u2019s now a research physiologist at the Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks.<\/p>\n

Another advantage that the region offers is that the K-12 schools in both North Dakota and Minnesota seem especially receptive to the findings of realistic fitness-and-health studies, Tomkinson said.<\/p>\n

One such study from Australia\u2019s University of Newcastle described a program that improved high-school students\u2019 fitness, academic performance and mental health, all over the course of only six months. The program? Three short (10-minute) but intense teacher-led workouts a week \u2013 not an impossible dream in our region\u2019s schools, Tomkinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hope is that in a few years\u2019 time, we’ll be starting to affect the health of local communities through physical activity, by showing both the feasibility and effectiveness of these kinds of fitness-based interventions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As for adults, Tomkinson is intrigued by the situation in Japan, where fitness measures \u2013 almost alone among developed countries \u2013 are tracking up rather than down (\u201cTemporal trends in handgrip strength for older Japanese adults between 1998 and 2017,\u201d Tomkinson, Fitzgerald et al., Age and Aging, February 2020).<\/p>\n

Plus, \u201cthey\u2019re living longer in Japan, and they\u2019re living healthier for longer,\u201d Tomkinson said. Might that be due in part to the population\u2019s fitness practices, and are there other aspects of Japanese culture that also could come into play?<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we can learn some lessons from our neighbors across the pond,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd maybe those lessons can improve our health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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