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Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution, impacts, and management of event tourism, with a focus on mega events, sport tourism, social and economic impacts, destination branding, community development, and sustainable development. It delves into the role of events in urban regeneration and the use of sport for development initiatives.

  • Mega Events
  • Sport Tourism
  • Social Impacts
  • Destination Branding
  • Community Development
  • Economic Impact
  • Festival Management
  • Sustainable Development
  • Sport for Development
  • Urban Regeneration
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Which countries lead Sport and Mega-Event Impacts research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 868 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 868 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 661 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 466 works
  5. 5 France 377 works
  6. 6 Australia 331 works
  7. 7 India 282 works
  8. 8 Canada 279 works
  9. 9 Germany 274 works
  10. 10 Spain 249 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 22.9%China: 17.7%United Kingdom: 13.5%Türkiye: 9.5%6 others listed: 36.5%23%largest
United States1,126 · 22.9%China868 · 17.7%United Kingdom661 · 13.5%Türkiye466 · 9.5%6 others listed1,792 · 36.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Sport and Mega-Event Impacts research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Sport and Mega-Event Impacts research, followed by Loughborough University and University of Lausanne.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 57 works
  2. 2 Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom 38 works
  3. 3 University of LausanneSwitzerland 38 works
  4. 4 German Sport University CologneGermany 29 works
  5. 5 Griffith UniversityAustralia 28 works
  6. 6 Leeds Beckett UniversityUnited Kingdom 25 works
  7. 7 Brock UniversityCanada 24 works
  8. 8 The University of QueenslandAustralia 24 works
  9. 9 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 23 works
  10. 10 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sport and Mega-Event Impacts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sport and Mega-Event Impacts include Pierre Bourdıeu, Ziad Ahmed Memish and Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Ziad Ahmed Memish Saudi Arabia 224k citations
  3. 3 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  4. 4 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  5. 5 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  6. 6 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Sport and Mega-Event Impacts?

The most cited paper in Sport and Mega-Event Impacts is "Factors influencing destination image" (Asunción Beerli Palacio, Josefa D. Martín, 2004), with 2,463 citations. Next come "Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research" (2,217) and "Towards a structural model of the tourist experience: an illustration from food experiences in tourism" (1,708).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Factors influencing destination image Asunción Beerli Palacio, Josefa D. Martín · Annals of Tourism Research Open access 8 Jun 2004 2,463
2 Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research Donald Getz · Tourism Management 2 Oct 2007 2,217
3 Towards a structural model of the tourist experience: an illustration from food experiences in tourism Quan Shuai, Wang Ning · Tourism Management 23 Sep 2003 1,708
4 Collaboration theory and community tourism planning Tazim B. Jamal, Donald Getz · Annals of Tourism Research 1995 1,639
5 Destination image Martina G. Gonzales Gallarza, Irene Gil Saura, Haydée Calderón Garcı́a · Annals of Tourism Research 2002 1,594
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Where is Sport and Mega-Event Impacts research done?

The largest centres of Sport and Mega-Event Impacts research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Saint Catharines and Loughborough.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 124 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 86 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 78 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 65 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 64 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 64 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 63 works
  8. 8 BrisbaneAustralia 57 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 50 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Saint CatharinesCA · 24.2 works26×
  2. LoughboroughGB · 39.0 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sport and Mega-Event Impacts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sport and Mega-Event Impacts?

Among universities, judged by research, Macau University of Science and Technology, Loughborough University and Griffith University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Macau University of Science and TechnologyChina 74.934.9%7.2×11 +196.4%
2Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom 74.818.9%23.3×38 +1.9%
3Griffith UniversityAustralia 74.127.2%9.3×28 -13.6%
4Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71.534.9%2.8×17 -10.0%
5City University of MacauChina 70.330.4%10.2×11 +110.4%
6University of LausanneSwitzerland 68.610.3%11.8×38 +21.2%
7Brock UniversityCanada 66.415.1%29.5×24 +82.8%
8Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 65.832.0%20.4×23 -37.8%
9Hamad bin Khalifa UniversityQatar 63.525.9%12.8×11 +770.4%
10Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany 63.023.0%5.6×15 +198.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Sport and Mega-Event Impacts, country by country

Is Sport and Mega-Event Impacts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Sport and Mega-Event Impacts.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Sport and Mega-Event Impacts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sport and Mega-Event Impacts over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Sport and Mega-Event Impacts10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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