(School of Physical Education,Liaoning Normal University,Dalian 116029,China) Abstract: By basing their research specimens on theses written for a Master of Science degree in the human move-ment science specialty between 1999 and 2009 in China, the authors analyzed these theses in terms of thesis topic selection, thesis research subjects, thesis research methods, and application value of thesis research achievements, summed up the characteristics and changing trend of these theses, and revealed the following findings: with the ex-pansion of the scale of recruitment of graduate students studying for a Master of Science degree, in the selection of thesis topics written for a Master of Science degree in the human movement science specialty, there were more fun-damental application researches than pure fundamental researches and developing researches, and there were signs of inadequate novelty of topic selection, repeated topic selection, and deviation of topic selection from sports prac-tice; the thesis research subjects are mainly animals, seldom the human body; the thesis research methods were mainly experimental methods and quantitative methods; more thesis research achievements were applied to the competitive sport area than to mass sports fitness and scholastic physical education. Key words: sports bibliometrics;human movement science;thesis written for a Master of Science degree;China |