Esports – an Avenue for the Future of Economic Research

dc.contributor.authorRejthar, Jan
dc.contributor.otherEkonomická fakultacs
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-02T10:24:24Z
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dc.description.abstractEsports is a rapidly growing industry with structural and behavioral characteristics that closely resemble traditional sports, positioning it as a promising arena for empirical economic research. Building on the premise that sports serve as valuable natural laboratories for testing economic theory, this study argues that esports may present an even more compelling setting for such research. A bibliometric analysis was conducted, collecting all articles from the Web of Science Core Collection that included the terms esport, e-sport, esports, or e-sports in their title, abstract, or keywords. Each publication was categorized by disciplinary domain, with particular focus on economics and its adjacent fields. The findings reveal that while esports research has expanded across various disciplines, economics research remains relatively sparse, with fewer than two publications per year over the past two decades, despite the fact that esports data is abundant, high-quality, and increasingly accessible. The study emphasizes the unique advantages of esports data, such as its precision, scale, and quality, and argues that esports offers a largely untapped opportunity for economists to study decision-making and incentive structures in highly controlled yet naturalistic environments. This article further highlights potential sources of esports data, encouraging economic researchers to consider esports in their future scientific endeavors.en
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dc.identifier.doi10.15240/tul/009/lef-2025-20
dc.identifier.isbn978-80-7494-747-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.tul.cz/handle/15240/178041
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dc.publisherTechnická Univerzita v Libercics
dc.publisherTechnical university of Liberec, Czech Republicen
dc.publisher.abbreviationTUL
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dc.relation.ispartofLiberec Economic Forum 2025en
dc.subjectEsportsen
dc.subjectBibliometric Analysisen
dc.subjectSports Economicsen
dc.subject.classificationZ20
dc.subject.classificationC8
dc.titleEsports – an Avenue for the Future of Economic Researchen
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