1580. Is Rob ter Horst forced by sports watch companies to use only the Polar H10 and to cite only certain papers which are funded by sports watch companies if he wants to receive smartwatches for testing for free?

Rob cites a Paper which is partly funded by Polar:

RR interval signal quality of a heart rate monitor and an ECG Holter at rest and during exercise

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219

Last author of the paper is Dr. Thomas Wyss deputy Rector of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM with a PhD. in Physiology

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-wyss-6b6061166/?originalSubdomain=ch

  • He is Doktor (Ph.D.), Physiologie (Ph.D.) 2007 – 2010
  • And he has a degree as a sport teacher from the ETH Zürich 1997 – 2006
  • Thomas Wysss is last author for the paper
  • Thomas Wyss papers are listed on researchgate.net:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Wyss

  • Rob ter Horst’s papers are listed on google scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o6avANkAAAAJ&hl=nl

  • And if we compare all of this information, is Rob ter Horst not a scientists who is better trained being a scientist than Dr. Thomas Wyss?
  • And has he not published papers of a higher quality than Dr. Thomas Wyss? But is not the paper:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219

RR interval signal quality of a heart rate monitor and an ECG Holter at rest and during exercise

the most important paper for Rob ter Horst on his YouTube channel, since it is the scientific basis for his smartwatch validation? Is this not strange? Why does a scientist at the highest level choose a paper which is not at the highest level for his sports sensor accuracy validation?