Trends in Olympic ST: Citation Analysis of the Olympic SCI Papers (1990-2007)

摘要

Thematic trends and challenging issues in Olympic research are analyzed based on the metadata of 1515 research papers indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) database between 1990 and 2007. The following issues are specifically addressed as 1) all-time prominent challenges in Olympic research, 2) a trend of progression in Olympic research, 3) the structure and dynamics of the Olympic research community. CiteSpace, a progressive domain visualization tool, is utilized to identify and visualize the movement of research fronts and intellectual bases, persistent clusters of papers, and the evolution of co-authorship networks as well as citation networks. The result contributes an in-depth analysis of a major forum of Olympic research and a systematic and streamlined method to keep abreast of the history and the state of the research of Olympic papers.