Background: Sports vision is a relatively new specialty, which has attracted particular interest in recent years from trainers and athletes, who are looking at ways of improving their visual skills to attain better performance on the field of play. The objective of this study was to use citation networks to analyze the relationships between the different publications and authors, as well as to identify the different areas of research and determine the most cited publication. Methods: The search for publications was carried out in the Web of Science database, using the terms “sport”, “vision”, and “eye” for the period between 1911 and August 2020. The publication analysis was performed using the Citation Network Explorer and CiteSpace software. Results: In total, 635 publications and 801 citations were found across the network, with 2019 being the year with the highest number of publications. The most cited publication was published in 2002 by Williams et al. By using the clustering functionality, four groups covering the different research areas in this field were found: ocular lesion, visual training methods and efficiency, visual fixation training, and concussions. Conclusions: The citation network offers an objective and comprehensive analysis of the main papers on sports vision.

Background: Coordination and reaction time are relevant aspects of a sport’s competitive performance within teams. The aim of this study was to explore if a group of futsal players, in a laboratory context, would present better results from actions where vision is prevalent compared to a control group without contact with futsal or any other sport. Methods: The digital system of the COI- SV software was used; six tests were selected, related to coordination (“Eye/hand coordination”; “Coordination and identification”) and reaction time (“Anticipation Time”; “Peripheral response”; “reaction time”; “Visual memory”). Results: Of all the tests performed, only in the anticipation time test did the futsal players obtain better results than the control group. The average time of the failures was lower in relation to the control group. In the others, no differences were found between the two groups. Conclusions: The futsal players did not perform better than the control group in most of the tests carried out, except in the “anticipation time”. Therefore, visual training maybe necessary to improve visual skills and sports performance.

Background: Sports vision is a specialisation of optometry whose objective is to improve and preserve visual function to increase sports performance. The main objective of the present study was to compare the visual expertise of non-athletes to skeet shooting athletes. Methods: Participants underwent an optometric assessment in which all those with severe deviations from normal vision, after compensating for visual abnormalities, were eliminated. After that, the following six visuospatial components were measured: hand–eye coordination, peripheral awareness, fixation disparity, saccadic eye movements, speed of recognition and visual memory. To measure the aforementioned components, the following tests were used: directional arrows, similar and different characters, the dichromatic disparity test, character marking, a tachistoscopic test and tic-tac-toe using COI-vision software. Results: Skeet shooting athletes performed significatively better (p ≤ 0.05) in two out of the six tests: hand–eye coordination and visual memory. Conclusions: Although this study does not support the theory that athletes—in this case, skeet shooting athletes—perform significantly better in most components of the visuospatial tests, visual memory and hand–eye coordination are exceptions. To be more accurate in distinguishing between athletes and non-athletes, specific testing methods that can be used by a wide variety of disciplines should be developed. Training the weakest aspects of athletes can improve their sports performance.

Accurate refractive assessment in children and young adults is critical to prevent amblyopia and strabismus, conditions that may arise from uncorrected hyperopia. Although non-cycloplegic autorefractors and photoscreeners are increasingly used for vision screening due to their practicality and high testability, residual accommodation often introduces systematic measurement bias. The debate regarding the necessity of cycloplegia has intensified, particularly in large-scale epidemiological studies and screening programs, highlighting the need for an evidence-based synthesis. This systematic review and meta-analysis, conducted according to PRISMA and AMSTAR-2 standards and registered in PROSPERO (CRD420251134665), synthesized data from 54 comparative studies, with 24 included in quantitative analyses. Compared with cycloplegic reference methods, non-cycloplegic autorefractors and photoscreeners consistently underestimated refractive error, showing pooled mean differences of −0.65 D (95% CI: −0.84 to −0.45; 95% PI: −1.50 to +0.20 D) and −0.78 D (95% CI: −1.12 to −0.44; 95% PI: −1.70 to +0.10 D), respectively. These prediction intervals illustrate the wide variability expected across future studies and populations. The bias was most pronounced in younger children and hyperopic eyes, reflecting the impact of accommodative tone. Despite device-specific differences, no method fully corrected this systematic error. Testability exceeded 95% across most devices, reinforcing their feasibility for population-level screening. However, the certainty of evidence was rated as low due to heterogeneity and observational design limitations. Non-cycloplegic methods systematically underestimate hyperopia and therefore cannot replace cycloplegia for definitive diagnosis or spectacle prescription in pediatric populations. Cycloplegic assessment remains essential to detect amblyogenic refractive errors accurately. Non-cycloplegic methods may be integrated into large-scale screening programs for initial case detection, but positive or borderline cases must undergo cycloplegic confirmation to ensure safe and effective clinical management.

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Background: Sports vision is a relatively new specialty. The objective is to provide ophthalmological and optometric care services for the care of vision in the sports field. An increasing number of athletes and coaches are trying to improve visual skills and they seek information on social media. The current excess of information has made it increasingly difficult to identify high quality articles. For this reason, alternative metrics are useful tools to identify publications that draw attention to society. This research aims to study the influence of social networks on the importance of vision in sport. Methods: Altmetric Explorer was used to perform a search using “sport”, “vision” and “eye” as keywords. The 100 outcomes with the most attention were analyzed and correlated with the number of citations in the Web of Science (WoS) using the Spearman correlation coefficient. Results: The 100 best Altmetric Attention Scores (AASs) were published in 67 journals and had a mean AAS value of 30.22 ± 62.37 The results were discussed mainly on Twitter, with a mean of 113.99 ± 43.86 tweets and retweets and a mean of 75.92 ± 79.92 readers in Mendeley. There was no correlation between AAS and WoS Cites for the top 100 outcomes and the correlation was low if we considered the total research results rather than the top 100. Conclusions: The citations are not related to the impact of scientific articles on social networks. Sports vision is a specialty with a growing interest in social media.