(1.School of Physical Education,Central China Normal University,Wuhan 430079,China;2.School of Physical Education,Jiangxi Normal University,Nanchang 330022,China) Abstract: The authors collated and analyzed 383 academy theses published on European Physical Education Review (EPER) between 1995 and 2015 in terms of research topic, hot issue, research subject and research method, and re-vealed the following findings: for more than 20 years, there were researchers from totally 28 different countries (re-gions) contributing their research achievements on EPER; the researchers focused more and more on cooperative re-search, while transnational cooperation had become “new normality” for physical education research; core authors were from Britain, USA, Australia and Ireland. Research topics are mainly “learning and learners”, “teachers and teacher education”, “physical education curriculum and teaching” etc. From the perspective of research method, frequently used research methods mainly include interview method, questionnaire method and literature method. Key words: school physical education;physical education;European Physical Education Review;review |