(Graduate Department,Jilin Sport University,Changchun 130033,China) Abstract: Based on such 4 journal internationalization indexes recognized at home and abroad as editorial board internationalization, author internationalization, author cooperation and reader internationalization, the author ac-quired firsthand data by manually referring to paper journals and downloading electronic data, carried out an em-pirical analysis on the course of internationalization of the American Physical Education Review and the Quarterly Journal of Exercise and Sport Research in America by means of literature metrology, and revealed the following findings: Internationalized journals are powerful support for sports science research to go international; American sports academic journals went through a path of internationalization from basing on North America first, then to battling for the markets of sports science and technology developed countries in Europe and Oceania, and finally to spreading to Asia and Africa gradually; the country distributions of journal authors and readers have a very close re-lationship, the primary manuscript source country has the largest reader groups of both journals simultaneously. The experience in the development of internationalization of American sports academic journals provides the following conducive inspirations for the internationalization of Chinese sports academic journals: managing high quality, in-ternationalized academic journals is an effective way to increase the strength of Chinese sports science and technol-ogy and to extend the international influence of Chinese sports academic studies; carry out selective, planned manuscript source input from and output to sports science and technology developed countries first, boost the pace of internationalization in mutual communication; establish a journal information platform that is connected to and shared by world databases, so as to facilitate sports science researchers worldwide to acquire Chinese sports science and technology information, and to quickly extend the global influence of Chinese sports academic journals; strengthen editorial board internationalization construction, increase the percentage of famous domestic and foreign experts, especially famous experts from science and technology developed countries, on the editorial board; enhance the English writing proficiency of Chinese sports scholars as soon as possible; form a number of sports academic journals provided with an internationalization orientation; the sports journal administrative department builds a rela-tively complete sports academic journal internationalization promotion support system as soon as possible. Key words: sports culture;sports academic journal;journal internationalization;American Physical Education Review;Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport |