Oldies but Goldies! Twenty Years After, the Journal of Sports Economics at a Crossroads?

Abstract

The present article first delineates core sport economics and compares the content of the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE) in different periods of time, then with other core publications in sport economics. Finally, a comparison is undertaken with articles in sport economics which have been published in generalist economics journals over the past two decades. A major conclusion is that the JSE appears to be the mainstream journal in quantitative sport microeconomics. Other strengths and weaknesses are exhibited and tentatively explained, including a marginal attention paid to non-microeconomic issues in sport and some other unheeded topics. A final conclusion is geared toward options for the editorial policy in the decades to come.

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“… 16. Andreff (2022) reports that articles on competitive balance account for 9.5 percent of the content of this journal. The first three pages from a Google Scholar search on “Journal Sports Economics competitive balance” produced 22 articles from this journal, most of which have over one hundred citations.…”