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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sports Act. Living

Sec. The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports

Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1647207

Modeling Public Attention Behavior on Badminton's Ecosystem Evolution via Complex Network Theory

Provisionally accepted
Yongjie  LiangYongjie Liang1Yuan  XuYuan Xu2Runsheng  GuRunsheng Gu2JUN  HUJUN HU3*Huijia  LiHuijia Li2*
  • 1Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China
  • 2Nankai University, Tianjin, China
  • 3Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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The convenience of badminton and the increase in badminton venues have led to growing complexity in public attention toward the sport, making nonlinear research methods an effective approach for studying the evolutionary dynamics of its popularity. The visibility graph algorithm is used to characterize badminton search volume as a dynamic behavioral representation of the badminton attention complex system, through which the evolutionary process and dynamical characteristics of this complex system are systematically investigated.The evolutionary process of the badminton attention complex system exhibits small-world and approximately scale-free network properties, coupled with chaotic dynamical behavior characteristics, ultimately manifesting as a deterministic nonlinear dynamical system governed by chaotic dynamics.

Keywords: Visibility graph, badminton venues, evolutionary dynamics, Complex System, Complex Network

Received: 04 Jul 2025; Accepted: 20 Oct 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Liang, Xu, Gu, HU and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
JUN HU, jun.hu@imu.edu.cn
Huijia Li, hjli@nankai.edu.cn

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