By John Considine
The Journal of Sports Economics has entered its 21st year. A review of the previous 20 years reveals some interesting changes. For example, in the year 2000, Volume 1 was published in four installments. In 2007, that became six installments. And in 2015, Volume 16 was published in eight installments. An impressive increase.
I had a hunch that the number of authors appearing on each paper was increasing. I decided to check the numbers. The results are illustrated below. Maybe there is a slight increase. There seems to have been an increase from the early years but for the majority of the period the average number is around 2 authors per paper.
I had a hunch that the number of authors appearing on each paper was increasing. I decided to check the numbers. The results are illustrated below. Maybe there is a slight increase. There seems to have been an increase from the early years but for the majority of the period the average number is around 2 authors per paper.
Included in the calculation are articles and research notes. Editorials and Book Reviews are excluded. Comments/Replies were excluded (although one or two were hard to classify). The individual pieces were ordered in the sequence in which they were published and I took a moving average of 20 publications.
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