ABSTRACT
One long-standing feature of several sport history journals was the surveys of recent works published in mainstream journals, thereby widening the circulation of scholarly information about emerging scholarship. As much as journals are outlets for the latest scholarship, they also provide a range of service-related content, alongside sport history societies’ bulletins and newsletters. Following the development of neoliberalism and innovations in academic publishing, the introduction of quantitative measures, including metrics and altmetrics, have contributed to a reshaped understanding of the effectiveness of journals. These measures are problematic but when used discretely along with library holdings they can provide a useful snapshot of sport history journals. Beside personal subscriptions, library holdings used to provide the only access point for scholars for the best part of the twentieth century. The most valuable database for sport history journals is Scopus because it offers a range of metrics and provides access to the algorithms and data that drive the metrics.
