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This study presents an overview of leisure studies in Brazil. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of articles published on Licere magazine in 2000-2010. During that period, the number of articles and co-authors per article has increased significantly. Books and Brazilian authors are the main references. Most authors who have published more often are trained in Physical Education. All this characterizes an ambivalent structure in Brazilian leisure studies: on the one hand, increasing autonomy for the field of research as a specialty area, with relatively little influence by foreign authors; on the other hand, the same general situation can also characterize superficial assimilation of traditions from the Humanities as well as certain isolation regarding works published outside Brazil.