Book Reviews in Sports Journals: Overlooked Value for Researchers and Journals.

In societies around the world, sports take up a major proportion of our interest and are a vital and integral part of the local, regional, and national economies. Daily, about 95% of the U.S. population engages in sports and leisure activities. Professionals, spectators, youth, and children participate in one way or another in sports. Published literature in sports is vast. Almost 100 academic journals cover the topic of sports with articles, interviews, reports, studies, and other strategies for conveying the cutting edge of research in this discipline. Yet, only some of these journals include book reviews. Publishing book reviews in sports journals can improve the overall quality of sports scholarship as well as the research profile of book reviewers. This article explores this state of affairs by examining the status of book reviews in some of the world's leading sports journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]