ABSTRACT
Objective@#To analyze evolution and research hot sports of sports intervention on youth health promotion, and to provide the theoretical data for the researchers to make sure their future research directions.@*Methods@#The Web of Science was searched through with core collection database to obtain original articles in this domain on November 10th 2018, and 1 242 articles were selected as research samples. Citespace was used to analyze the following data, including co-word, cited-reference, cite-author and so on.@*Results@#Research on this domain was performed in 43 countries. The leading 5 countries of publishing papers were as follows: USA,Australia,England, Canada and Holland, accounting for 1 017 articles published, occupying 81.9% of the published papers. The most productive organizations were in USA and Australia. The team of Luban DR and Pate RR was most representative in this domain. Recently more and more researchers were paying attention to sport intervention of adolescents. The leading issues were about: application of intelligent electronic products in intervening adolescents’ health, the positive effect of sports environment on adolescents’ participation in sports and the sport intervention of adolescent’s brain.@*Conclusion@#We must recognize that the field in sports intervention among adolescents is still in its infancy and shows huge potential for further improvement. Scientists from the United States and Australia are leading the world in this field. It’s important for China to participate and refer to their cutting-edge researches, and to invest in specific sports intervention strategies paving the road to good health among adolescents.