1. Title of Dataset: Fencing and Wheelchair Fencing Research: A Scoping Review Dataset
2. Author Information
a. Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name: Professor Lindsay Bottoms
Institution: University of Hertfordshire
Address: Centre for Research in Psychology and Sports
Email: l.bottoms@herts.ac.uk
b. Joint Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name: Ms Katharine Holmes
Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Address: 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029, United States
Email: katharine.holmes@icahn.mssm.edu
	
3. Date of data collection January to March 2026
4. Geographic location of data collection USA
5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: No authors have any relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC-BY
2. Links to publication that cite or use the data: Will submit to PlosOne
3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: none
4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: none
5. Was data derived from another source? No
6. Recommend citation for this dataset: Holmes, K. and Bottoms, L.  (2026). Fencing and Wheelchair Fencing Research: A Scoping Review Dataset. University of Hertfordshire. https://....

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
1. File list:
There is 1 file:

Data_Sheet.csv
 
2. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package:
a. All data included
3. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? No

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data:
A scoping review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA-ScR guidelines. PubMed, Scopus, and EBSCOhost were searched for studies containing the terms “fencing,” “fencer,” or “fencers” in the title or abstract. Eligible studies employed experimental or quantitative observational designs and included fencing athletes as participants. Data were extracted using a structured framework and summarized descriptively across study design, research domain, participant characteristics, sample size, weapon discipline, and geographic distribution.

2. Methods for processing the data:
No specific data was analysed 
3. Instrument   or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
Excel
4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: N/A
5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
a. N/A
6. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
Holmes, K. and Bottoms, L.

DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Data_sheet.csv

1. Number of variables: 17
2. Number of rows: 445
3. Variable list:
List variable name, description, unit and value descriptive
a. APA citation, APA citation of the article 
b. Title, title of the article 
c. Authors, authors of the article 
d. Year, year the article was published
e. Journal, journal in which the article was published 
f. Summary, summary of the article 
g. Key findings, key findings of the article 
h. Country, country of affiliation of the first author of the article 
i. Fencing only, which sprots the article examined: Fencing Only, Mixed Sport 
j. Able Bodied, which fencers the article examined: Able Bodied, Wheelchair, Both 
k. N fencers, number of fencers the article included  
l. Fencer level, level of the fencers the article included: Senior/Elite, Mixed levels, Not specified, Collegiate, Junior, Club, Veteran
m. Weapon, weapon(s) the article included: Not specified, Multiple, Epee, Foil, Sabre 
n. Gender, gender of fencers the article included: Not specified, Both, Male, Female  
o. Domain, research domain that was the focus of the article: Performance/Skill Analysis, Physiology, Psychology, Biomechanics, Injury/Epidemiology, Recover/Rehab/Health, Overlapping Domains, Training Load/Fatigue, Other 
p. Design, study design: Controlled Laboratory Experiment, Cross-Sectional Observational, Field-Based Experiment/Testing, Retrospective Observational, Prospective Cohort, Randomized Controlled Trial, Non-Randomized Intervention, Other, Multiple Designs 
q. Primary outcome, primary outcome of the article 


4. Missing data codes:
There are no missing data codes. The cells are just blank

5. Specialised formats or other abbreviations used:
None