Development of somatotyping in Russia according to scientometric analysis from 2013 to 2023

BACKGROUND: Somatotyping has a long history and at the same time is widespread today in medicine, sports, and biomedical research, which necessitates the need to combat the inertia of scientific paradigms and methods . AIM: The goal is to identify the main trends and patterns in the development of modern somatotyping based on scientometrics of publication activity since 2013. METHODS: Based on RSCI data, a database was formed on the use of somatotyping for the period from 2013 to 2023. Key words of publications, frequency and scientific areas of application of somatotyping schemes were analyzed. RESULTS: Anthropometry techniques were most often used to identify predictors of adaptation failure or disease development. When searching for characteristics of samples that differ in influencing factors, body composition was more often used. An increase in studies using somatotyping according to Heath-Carter and Chernorutsky has been revealed. The share of studies performed using the methods of R.N. is decreasing. Dorokhov and V.G. Petrukhin and Taner, and the variety of somatotyping schemes used. In the study of adolescence, first adulthood and when somatotyping women, somatotyping according to R.N. was more often used. Dorokhov, in clinical studies - according to Z. Rees and H. Eisenck, in the study of athletes - according to Heath-Carter, in combined somatotyping - according to Bashkirov, Taner and Z. Rees and H. Eisenck. CONCLUSION: The main problem that anthropologists faced was the comparability of the results obtained using different somatotyping schemes.