6–10 Jun 2022
Tübingen
Europe/Berlin timezone

Publication and citation analysis of the European Journal for Sport and Society

8 Jun 2022, 15:50
20m

Speaker

Pamela Wicker

Description

This study conducts a publication and citation analysis of the European Journal for Sport and Society. It seeks to identify the characteristics of published articles and the drivers of citations. All articles published in the journal between 2004 and 2020 were entered in a database (N=362). The number of citations was obtained from Google scholar at the beginning of January 2022. The analysis is limited to publications with (possible) citations (i.e., research articles, editorials with title; n=264). The results reveal that the following topics were mainly published: Sport participation (45.5%), sport organisations (22.3%), integration (12.1%), social and cultural aspects (12.1%), talent development and coaching (12.1%), sport policy (10.6%), sport development (9.5%), gender (9.1%), sport events and fans (8.7%), and media (8.7%). An average of 2.07 authors are on each publication, with the share of women authors amounting to 27.7%. Authors come from 1.52 different affiliations that are located in 1.24 countries. On average, publications have been cited 18.03 times in total and 3.19 times per year. The results of regression analyses show that the number of citations is significantly and positively affected by the years of publication and the number of pages. Publications published at the beginning of an issue have gathered more citations. Several topics were cited significantly less: Sport events/fans, tourism, talent development/coaching, health, and education system. The higher the share of women authors and the number of involved affiliations, the higher the number of citations. These findings have implications for authors and editors of this journal.

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