Institutional Concentration of Leisure Research: A Follow-up to and Extension of Jackson (2004)

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the institutional concentration of North American leisure research has increased, decreased, or remained the same over the past two decades. To address this question, we compared data from 2000 to 2008, composed of 1,884 published articles and abstracts, 4,293 authorships, 1,461 authors, and 246 institutions, with data from 1990 to 1999 collected by Jackson (2004). Overall, our results suggest that while more are doing a little, a few are doing more. Findings are discussed, and it is proposed that leisure studies could benefit from even greater institutional concentration.

KEYWORDS:

• Leisure
• metrics
• productivity
• research
• university