ABSTRACT

Purpose: The work aims to extract topics that shape sport management science and investigate their dynamics over the past two decades.

Design/methodology/approach: A dataset containing abstracts of 6982 articles published in 2000–2020 is analysed using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. For each topic, we assess the dynamics of its popularity and impact. Next, we investigate the number of topics covered by one paper, and topic distributions for top journals and leading researchers.

Findings: Sport management encompasses both business and social topics, with a growing emphasis on the latter. The topics with growing popularity and impact are social context, sport for development and sport diversity. Interest in sport performance and fans loyalty is falling quite sharply. All other topics (sport events, sport marketing and customer behaviour) are of stable interest to the scientific community. Publications’ diversity remains relatively stable since 2009.

Originality: We analyse the general flow of scientific publications using a formal method that allows us to reveal the evolution of sports management in last two decades.

Research Contribution: Our results prove that researchers consider sport management and its effects on humans, treating this discipline as a business direction.

摘要

目的：这项工作旨在提取塑造体育管理科学的主题，并调查它们在过去二十年的动态。

设计/方法/方法：使用 Latent Dirichlet Allocation 分析包含 2000-2020 年发表的 6982 篇文章摘要的数据集。对于每个主题，我们都会评估其受欢迎程度和影响力的动态。接下来，我们调查一篇论文涵盖的主题数量，以及顶级期刊和领先研究人员的主题分布。

调查结果：体育管理包括商业和社会主题，并且越来越重视后者。越来越受欢迎和影响的主题是社会背景、体育促进发展和体育多样性。对体育表现的兴趣和球迷的忠诚度正在急剧下降。所有其他主题（体育赛事、体育营销和客户行为）都是科学界的稳定兴趣。自 2009 年以来，出版物的多样性保持相对稳定。

独创性：我们使用正式方法分析科学出版物的一般流程，使我们能够揭示过去二十年体育管理的演变。

研究贡献：我们的结果证明，研究人员考虑体育管理及其对人类的影响，将这一学科视为商业方向。