Changes of knowledge sources concerning public sports policy (2001-2020): based on core journals of China sports science

Abstract

This paper systematically reviews changes of knowldege sources concerning public sports policy based on core journals of China sports science. Author selected and analyzed all references of peer-reviewed articles published in core journals of China sports science (2001-2020) with reference number, reference resource, language distribution and discipline category. Results: over the past years, books and journals are the most top references. As far as references language is concerned, there were Chinese, English, German, and Japanese, and others language. it appeared the change that is from Chinese to foreign language in cited references, especially, English references have a majority of increasing in recent years. In addition, discipline distribution of references has changes that are obvious from single discipline to multiple disciplines, and the effect of other disciplines on public sports policy is significant.