OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Leisure Research is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A trail of chaos: How psychopathic leadership influence employee satisfaction and turnover intention via self-efficacy in tourism enterprises	47
Leisure as immediate conscious experience: Foundations, evaluation, and extension of the theory of structured experiences	25
Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex”	22
Ecology of family experiences: Contextualizing family leisure for human development & family relations	20
Leisure satisfaction and quality of life of residents in Ningbo, China	19
Beyond noise management: Exploring visitors’ perceptions of positive emotional soundscape dimensions	18
Bidirectional association between leisure time physical activity and well-being: Longitudinal evidence	17
Who visits U.S. national parks (and who doesn’t)? A national study of perceived constraints and vacation preferences across diverse populations	15
Connecting protected area visitor experiences, wellness motivations, and soundscape perceptions in Chilean Patagonia	14
The potentials of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in leisure research	14
A critical examination of leisure in modernity: Rejecting instrumentalism and embracing flourishing	14
“Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road	12
Work hard, play hard…or maybe not: A look at the relationships between workaholism, work-leisure conflict, and work stress	12
Hiking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Demographic and visitor group factors associated with public health compliance	11
Person-place relationships, social capital, and health outcomes at a nonprofit community wellness center	11
An examination of video assisted leisure education in middle-aged and older adults	10
Work-leisure balance: Perceived organizational leisure support	10
Toward an applied social psychology of leisure	10
The measurement model of leisure constraint negotiation in leisure-time physical activity context: Reflective or formative?	10
Safe cycling space: How it is produced and experienced by cyclists	9
Exploring the conditions that promote intergroup contact at urban parks	9
How do work and leisure contribute to Hong Kong Chinese’ life satisfaction?	8
Constructing an interactionist framework for playfulness research: Adding psychological situations and playful states	8
Social psychology of leisure 2.0: Looking back, looking forward	8
How work constrains leisure: New ideas and directions for interdisciplinary research	8

Valuing nature-based recreation in forest areas in Italy: An application of Travel Cost Method (TCM)	7
Widowhood and leisure: An exploration of leisure’s role in coping and finding a new self	7
Experience design and the origins and aims of leisure studies: Shifting the focus from context to experience	7
Can urban parks bridge deep divides? Assessing the effects of inter-racial social interaction in parks and public spaces on trust	7
Neoliberal conservation and equity in the context of local parks and recreation: Stakeholder perceptions on public-non-profit partnerships	7
The impact of protective masks on outdoor recreation crowding norms during a pandemic	7
The effect of environmental factors and physical activity on emotions and attention while walking and jogging	7
Yoga leisure and identity development of Chinese second-time mothers	7
“White Savior” as duly provocative or enforced civility with unintended consequences? A response to Anderson, Knee, & Mowatt	6
Meanings of traditional Chinese leisure: Perspectives from etymology, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism	6
Comparison of reported outdoor activities in Florida State Parks among three fitness tracker apps	6
Investigating the role of family travel and family functioning in promoting Chinese adolescents’ subjective wellbeing	6
Why do normative encounter standards change? The social evolution of recreational crowding	6
Patterns of family-based nature activities across the early life course and their association with adulthood outdoor participation and preference	6
Personal growth leisure experience in Templestay: International tourist outcomes, satisfaction, and recommendation	6
Deconstructing serious leisure using identity theory	6
Toward a culture-sensitive approach to playfulness research: Development of the Adult Playfulness Trait Scale-Chinese version and an alternative measurement model	6
Rail trails literature: Current status and future research	5
Birding recreation specialization – A test of the factorial invariance in eight languages	5
An examination of recreational golfers’ psychological connection, participation behavior, and perceived constraints	5
Travel after tragedy: A phenomenological study on what it takes for women to travel solo after tragedy	5
After-school time use of urban adolescents: Effects on achievement, problem behaviors, and happiness	5
Challenges of ecological momentary assessments to study family leisure: Participants’ perspectives	5
Building, not burning bridges in research: Insider/outsider dilemmas and engaging with the bridge community	5
Real-time, passive measurement of communication during family leisure: An exploratory study of wearable sociometric badges	5
“White-Savior Industrial Complex” in leisure studies: A response to Anderson, Knee, & Mowatt	5
Understanding the relationships between motivation, constraints, and constraint negotiation in volunteer participation in a marathon event	4
Leisure reading experience promoting prenatal attachment among pregnant women: A moderated mediation model	4
Sibling relationship quality in the context of digital leisure and geographic distance for college-attending emerging adults	4
It is more than fun and making friends: Social leisure and leisure experiences of Taiwanese urban women	4
Esports gender diversity: A leisure constraints perspective	4
Developing the Experience Impact Scale: A qualitative study using a study abroad and international internship program	4
Neoliberalism’s influence on recreation access provisions: Municipal recreation practitioners’ perspectives	4
COVID-19 lockdown: Impact on emotional well-being and relationship to habit and routine modifications	3
Stress, anxiety, leisure changes, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Use of social media before, during and after family trips	3
Leisure’s relation to older adults adapting to new homes: A scoping review	3
COVID-19, mobility, leisure, and travel around the world	3
The Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS): Preliminary evidence of reliability and validity	3
Hybrid habitats: Remediating leisure, space and youth throughPokémon Goin India	3
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being	3
When the arts are not your cup of tea: Participation frequency and experience in cultural activities	3
How does place attachment affect word-of-mouth?: Evidence from a street with emerging cafes	3
Leisure and China in the global context: Introduction to the special issue	3
The pedigree of pixie dust: Disneyland and theme parks as a remediation of playful places throughout history	3
Examining perceived adolescent socioemotional development and repeated camp experiences using a planned missing data design	3
Validity of self-reported Well-being Measures and Restoration Scale for emotions, attention, and physiology	3
U.S. wilderness in the 21st century: A scoping review of wilderness visitor use management research from 2000 to 2020	2
Introduction to theme issue on leisure and COVID-19	2
The impact of internet use on leisure: Gender and age heterogeneity in young people	2

Development and validation of a scale measuring public perceptions of racial environmental justice in parks	2
Adolescents’ experiences in nature: Sources of everyday well-being	2
Analysis of groups’ multi-day leisure travel behaviors	2
Regional disparities in green space access and associations with adult obesity: An urban–rural comparison in Florida	2
Co-creating family-inclusive leisure experiences: A study of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house	2
Where have all the children gone? A review of the presence of children under 6 years in leisure publication outlets	2
An integrative review of leisure education research	2
The effects of health beliefs upon nature-based tourism during COVID-19: Cases from the United States and South Korea	2
Turn off to tune in: Digital disconnection, digital consciousness, and meaningful leisure	2
Beyond luxury consumption: The meaning and meaning-making mechanism in conspicuous outbound tourism	2
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: A galvanizing force for the study of experience in the context of leisure	2
The mediating role of passion in the relationship between serious leisure and well-being among university sport club participants	2
Examining the long-term effect of leisure engagement, leisure satisfaction, and perceived discrimination on stress perception among Koreans with physical disabilities	2
The role of mobile fitness applications in student leisure activities	2
In the era of COVID-19, is watching TV through OTT services becoming a digital leisure activity of choice?	2
Development and properties of the parental support of leisure exploration measure	2
‘This was like some Little House on the Prairie shit’: The intensive care(work) of making PPE during COVID-19	2
Cribbage culture and social worlds: An analysis of closeness, inclusiveness, and specialization	2
Impact of COVID-19 on vacation recreational walking: Evidence from an urban coastal destination	2
Leisure, eudaimonic behavior, physical activity and well-being of older adults	2
Transnational leisure, ethnic identity conflict and life satisfaction among fourth-generation young adult Korean ethnic minority in China	2
Study on the role and internal mechanism of corporate leisure welfare in alleviating employee burnout	2
Using Means-End of Recreation Scale (MERS) in outdoor recreation settings: Factorial and structural tenability	2