Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games: An Author Cocitation Analysis

• Main Authors: WARNING, Peter, CHING, Rosie, TOOHEY, Kristine
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: Behavioral Economics; Econometrics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1026; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2025/viewcontent/Mapping_the_Discipline_of_the_Olympic_Games_an_Author_Cocitation_Bk_Chap.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics.