| （1.Shool of Physical Education，Shanghai Normal University，Shanghai 200234，China；2.Department of Physical Education，Tsinghua University，Beijing 100084，China) Abstract: Basing the research samples on 682 theses published on such 3 international peer reviewed journals of sports sociology as International Review of Sports Sociology, Journal of Sports Sociology and Journal of Sports and social Issues and indexed by SSCI database, by applying triangular mutual proof method, network analysis method and com-parative analysis method, the authors probed into the characteristics of the authors, institutions and cooperation in sports sociological research in Europe and North America, and revealed the following findings: in sports sociological research in Europe, there was a women “scientific research output mystery”, the percentage of the male authors with an intermediate title was higher than that in North America, but the percentage of the authors with a doctor degree or a senior title in North America was slightly higher than that in Europe, and a number of highly productive core authors emerged in both regions; in terms of author scientific research cooperation, the authors in North America had more sci-entific research cooperation, having formed density relatively high cooperation networks and number relatively great research teams; in terms of scientific research institution, the Occidental authors were mostly from institutions of higher learning, while the secondary scientific research institutions of universities which North American authors were at were relatively type diversified, and formed a number of highly productive research institutions which were at the center of a scientific research cooperation network, the institutions in North America had a cooperation network cooperation den-sity higher than that of the institutions in Europe and had more international cooperation.
Key words: sports document measurement；author；scientific research cooperation；Europe and North America |
