A Visualization Analysis of China's Leisure Sports Research (P)

The social economy’s continual development has produced gradual increases in disposable income, which have enriched leisure activities. In order to engage progress in the research of leisure sports in China over the past 20 years and contribute a new angle and direction to the research of leisure sports in China, this paper summarizes the internal and external characteristics of the country’s leisure sports research. The data visualization software CiteSpace5.0 is applied to provide a macro analysis of the development of China’s leisure sports research over the past 20 years. This method has not been applied to research of this kind before, and this reiterates the innovative character of this paper. It achieves this by extracting the 1998-2017 leisure sports literature from the CSSCI database before applying bibliometric Visual Analysis Software CiteSpace 5.0 to this material. It finds that the momentum of the development of the county’s leisure sports is positive, and observes the initial establishment of a cooperation network. However, it also highlights a number of problems, which include the insufficient depth of disciplinary research, the lack of interdisciplinary research results (as shown by the adoption of a single research paradigm) and the neglect of frontier issues.