OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport Management Review is 7. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	43
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	34
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	34
Managing mental health: athlete help-seeking	27
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	24
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
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	22
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks	22
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	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
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport	15
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory	13
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	13
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	13
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	12
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	12
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots	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	10
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	10
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	9
An exploration of charity sport event donor perceptions of online peer-to-peer fundraising mechanisms	9
Growing yourself as a first-generation American football fan in China: a consumer socialization perspective	9

Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	9
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	9
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup	9
“We’re starting to turn the page”: navigating stigma as a women’s sport employee	9
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization	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
Urban sprawl and leisure time physical activity	8
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	8
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	8
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport	7
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	7
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics	7
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members	7
Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	7