(1.School of Physical Education and Training,Shanghai University of Sport,Shanghai 200438,China;2.Department of Physical Education,East China Politics and Law University,Shanghai 201620,China;3.Department of Physical Education,Shanghai Dianji University,Shanghai 201306,China) Abstract: By applying visualized analysis method and such, the authors studied the external characteristics, hot topics and development trends of sports arbitration research in China, and revealed the following findings: currently sports arbitration researchers in China locate intensively in the law colleges of some comprehensive universities, the contracting between highly productive authors is not close, disciplinary infiltration and differentiation is prominent; research hot topics tend to be the international sports arbitration area, localization research is not sufficiently fo-cused on; the frontiers to be focused on in the future are the protection of athletes’ game participation qualification and rights, the execution of applying competitive sports dispute and arbitration conceptions in practice, the global-ization of sports industry autonomy and governance etc. Key words: sports law;sports arbitration research;knowledge mapping;review;China |