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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex”	28
Who visits U.S. national parks (and who doesn’t)? A national study of perceived constraints and vacation preferences across diverse populations	19
Leisure satisfaction and quality of life of residents in Ningbo, China	19
The potentials of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in leisure research	16
“Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road	13
Hiking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Demographic and visitor group factors associated with public health compliance	13
Valuing nature-based recreation in forest areas in Italy: An application of Travel Cost Method (TCM)	13
Safe cycling space: How it is produced and experienced by cyclists	10
Patterns of family-based nature activities across the early life course and their association with adulthood outdoor participation and preference	9
Neoliberal conservation and equity in the context of local parks and recreation: Stakeholder perceptions on public-non-profit partnerships	9
Meanings of traditional Chinese leisure: Perspectives from etymology, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism	9
Can urban parks bridge deep divides? Assessing the effects of inter-racial social interaction in parks and public spaces on trust	9
Widowhood and leisure: An exploration of leisure’s role in coping and finding a new self	9
Investigating the role of family travel and family functioning in promoting Chinese adolescents’ subjective wellbeing	9
Exploring the conditions that promote intergroup contact at urban parks	9
Esports gender diversity: A leisure constraints perspective	8
Building, not burning bridges in research: Insider/outsider dilemmas and engaging with the bridge community	8
The impact of protective masks on outdoor recreation crowding norms during a pandemic	8
How do work and leisure contribute to Hong Kong Chinese’ life satisfaction?	8
Experience design and the origins and aims of leisure studies: Shifting the focus from context to experience	8
Birding recreation specialization – A test of the factorial invariance in eight languages	8
Travel after tragedy: A phenomenological study on what it takes for women to travel solo after tragedy	8
Toward a culture-sensitive approach to playfulness research: Development of the Adult Playfulness Trait Scale-Chinese version and an alternative measurement model	8
Yoga leisure and identity development of Chinese second-time mothers	8
Comparison of reported outdoor activities in Florida State Parks among three fitness tracker apps	7

“White Savior” as duly provocative or enforced civility with unintended consequences? A response to Anderson, Knee, & Mowatt	6
Beyond luxury consumption: The meaning and meaning-making mechanism in conspicuous outbound tourism	6
Deconstructing serious leisure using identity theory	6
Adolescents’ experiences in nature: Sources of everyday well-being	6
Stress, anxiety, leisure changes, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Sibling relationship quality in the context of digital leisure and geographic distance for college-attending emerging adults	5
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being	5
“White-Savior Industrial Complex” in leisure studies: A response to Anderson, Knee, & Mowatt	5
Hybrid habitats: Remediating leisure, space and youth throughPokémon Goin India	5
Challenges of ecological momentary assessments to study family leisure: Participants’ perspectives	5
It is more than fun and making friends: Social leisure and leisure experiences of Taiwanese urban women	5
Turn off to tune in: Digital disconnection, digital consciousness, and meaningful leisure	5
Leisure, eudaimonic behavior, physical activity and well-being of older adults	5
Context-free and work-related benefits of a leisure crafting intervention: A randomized controlled trial	5
Understanding the relationships between motivation, constraints, and constraint negotiation in volunteer participation in a marathon event	4
Leisure and China in the global context: Introduction to the special issue	4
The pedigree of pixie dust: Disneyland and theme parks as a remediation of playful places throughout history	4
Examining the long-term effect of leisure engagement, leisure satisfaction, and perceived discrimination on stress perception among Koreans with physical disabilities	4
The effects of health beliefs upon nature-based tourism during COVID-19: Cases from the United States and South Korea	4
The role of past campus recreational sports participation in predicting students’ stress and competence during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Developing the Experience Impact Scale: A qualitative study using a study abroad and international internship program	4
The role of mobile fitness applications in student leisure activities	4
Advancing understanding of digital well-being at the intersection of technology and leisure	4
COVID-19 lockdown: Impact on emotional well-being and relationship to habit and routine modifications	4
The Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS): Preliminary evidence of reliability and validity	4
Neoliberalism’s influence on recreation access provisions: Municipal recreation practitioners’ perspectives	4
COVID-19, mobility, leisure, and travel around the world	3
Transnational leisure, ethnic identity conflict and life satisfaction among fourth-generation young adult Korean ethnic minority in China	3
Promoting on-going participation in group fitness among older adults: An application of the Psychological Continuum Model	3
How does place attachment affect word-of-mouth?: Evidence from a street with emerging cafes	3
The mediating role of passion in the relationship between serious leisure and well-being among university sport club participants	3
Leisure’s relation to older adults adapting to new homes: A scoping review	3
Use of social media before, during and after family trips	3
When the arts are not your cup of tea: Participation frequency and experience in cultural activities	3
“The forest is my church”: Spirituality and the trail to recovery	2
U.S. wilderness in the 21st century: A scoping review of wilderness visitor use management research from 2000 to 2020	2
The effect of pandemic-related stress on the decision-making process for individual outdoor leisure activities	2
An integrative review of leisure education research	2
The impact of internet use on leisure: Gender and age heterogeneity in young people	2
Hosting friends and relatives as a catalyst for immigrant participation in touristic leisure	2
Relationships between social capital, leisure constraints, leisure negotiation, and running club participation	2
Regional disparities in green space access and associations with adult obesity: An urban–rural comparison in Florida	2
Analysis of groups’ multi-day leisure travel behaviors	2
Study on the role and internal mechanism of corporate leisure welfare in alleviating employee burnout	2
In the era of COVID-19, is watching TV through OTT services becoming a digital leisure activity of choice?	2
Where have all the children gone? A review of the presence of children under 6 years in leisure publication outlets	2
Development and properties of the parental support of leisure exploration measure	2
The impact of outdoor therapeutic recreation on suicidality: A mixed-method systematic review	2
Development and validation of a scale measuring public perceptions of racial environmental justice in parks	2
Vaccine hesitancy, parental concerns, and COVID-19 in a digital leisure context: Implications for out-of-school time	2

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: A galvanizing force for the study of experience in the context of leisure	2
“I have to be the example”: Motherhood as a lens for understanding physical activity among low-income women	2
Landscape attributes as stimuli for cognitive restoration in the outdoor environment: A systematic review and thematic analysis	2
The relationship between consumer behavior and subjective well-being in Chinese teahouses and cafes: A social capital perspective	2
Using Means-End of Recreation Scale (MERS) in outdoor recreation settings: Factorial and structural tenability	2
Time perspective of leisure participants: Conceptualization and measurement	2
Introduction to theme issue on leisure and COVID-19	2
Cribbage culture and social worlds: An analysis of closeness, inclusiveness, and specialization	2
‘This was like some Little House on the Prairie shit’: The intensive care(work) of making PPE during COVID-19	2
Impact of COVID-19 on vacation recreational walking: Evidence from an urban coastal destination	2
Associations between enjoyable activities and uplifting events: Effects on momentary positive affect in adulthood	2
Technology, innovation and leisure: Leisure engagement in new and unexpected ways	2
Co-creating family-inclusive leisure experiences: A study of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house	2