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Purpose: To provide a general overview of Taiwanese scholars’ publication history in sport and exercise psychology in international journals in the past 10 years. The aim was to encourage more young scholars to develop careers in this area. Method: Following the methodological suggestions by Cooper (2016) in research synthesis with some small modifications, we adopted a “quasi-systematic review” approach to collect, sort and analyze Taiwanese scholars’ publications in the field of the social psychology of sport and exercise in the past decade. We only considered papers published in international journals and TSSCI journals. Results: The results of this review can be summarized in five points: (a) most Taiwanese scholars conducted their research in sport contexts; (b) most of the studies used undergraduates and adolescents as participants; (c) most scholars adopted quantitative methods to conduct their research, and the studies published in international journals had a higher proportion of longitudinal designs than those published in TSSCI journals; (d) 34 (17.71%) studies examined the issue of “interpersonal relationship in sport”; 51 (26.56%) studies investigated “leadership and group dynamics”; 74 (38.54%) investigated “motivation”; 107 (55.73%) investigated “social cognition in sport”; and 67 (34.90%) investigated the “influence of the environment”; and (e) among the studies published in international journals, 24 (28.57%) were ranked as Q1, 17 (20.24%) as Q2, 30 (35.71%) as Q3; and 13 (15.48%) as Q4. Discussion and suggestion: Future research may examine how social facilitation influences athletes and exercisers’ behavior. Issues such as audience effect or home-court advantage are worth investigating. We also suggest that future studies may adopt cross-cultural or cross-ethnic designs. In addition, we suggest that future studies adopt multi-samples, multi-measures, and multi-timing data collection. Other research designs such as longitudinal interventions and qualitative-quantitative mixed design are recommended. Finally, we suggest that future studies use more diverse populations as research participants, especially older adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]