OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport Management Review is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	62
Examining the career dynamics of elite football referees: a unique identification profile	34
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	30
Managing mental health: athlete help-seeking	29
Breaking the glass monitor: examining the underrepresentation of women in esports environments	29
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	27
Anti-doping in China: an analysis of the policy implementation processes through stakeholders’ perspectives	26
Watching sports on Twitch? A study of factors influencing continuance intentions to watch Thursday Night Football co-streaming	25
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda	23
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak	23
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	22
Sport for social cohesion: exploring aims and complexities	22
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	22
Sensemaking of novelty: the dynamic nature of integrating esports within a traditional sport organization	20
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport	19
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	19
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	18
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity	17
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach	16
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	15
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory	15
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	14
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	14
Development and transference of intentional self-regulation through a sport-based youth development program	13
Antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement in sport for development	13

The novelty effect and on-field team performance in new sports facilities: the case of the Canadian Football League	12
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	12
Strengthening referees’ psychological well-being through engagement and authenticity	11
Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents	11
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby	11
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	10
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	10
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	9
Tensions and opportunities in researching social change in sport management	9
An exploration of charity sport event donor perceptions of online peer-to-peer fundraising mechanisms	9
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	8
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies	8
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	8
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	8
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	8
Urban sprawl and leisure time physical activity	8