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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Leisure Research is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How weekend leisure experiences alleviate emotional exhaustion at work	56
Co-creating family-inclusive leisure experiences: A study of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house	30
It is more than fun and making friends: Social leisure and leisure experiences of Taiwanese urban women	26
Mountain biking and environmental justice: What can “the bike boom” teach us about recreation equity?	24
Women’s cycling rides: Collective pathways to optimal experience	22
Phenomenological exploration of young adults’ recreational cannabis use experiences and associated leisure meanings	21
Landscape attributes as stimuli for cognitive restoration in the outdoor environment: A systematic review and thematic analysis	18
Interrelationships among parental play belief, household playfulness, school play behaviors, and social competence of kindergarten children	17
Evaluating diversity, equity, and inclusivity in outdoor programs for veterans on public lands	16
“We do revolve our lives around it” – The meaning and significance of being a collegiate women’s basketball fan among older women	16
A national longitudinal study examining social-emotional benefits of summer camp for early adolescents: Effects of attendance, dosage, and experience quality	16
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being	15
Exploring the link between runners’ involvement and well-being using the psychological continuum model	15
Use of social media before, during and after family trips	14
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”	14
Leveraging regional Senior Games for older adults’ participation in sport and leisure-time physical activity: The event organizers’ perspective	14
Examining the relationships between mindfulness, eudaimonic and hedonic experiences, place attachment, loyalty: the moderating role of flow	13
The impact of outdoor therapeutic recreation on suicidality: A mixed-method systematic review	12
Comparing summer camp to other summertime settings: An explanatory-sequential mixed-methods study	12
Ascending past constraints through immersion into the social worlds of climbing gyms	11
Transition to a new baby: Exploring the association between couple leisure, coparenting and parenting practices	10
Game on or game over? A cross-sectional study of factors impacting sport-active and sport-inactive Australian adults	10
Sense of community in roller derby	10
Finding flow in pandemic times: Leisure opportunities for optimal experience and positive mental health among Italian university students	10
Correction	9

Valuing nature-based recreation in forest areas in Italy: An application of Travel Cost Method (TCM)	9
Category versus labeled magnitude scale measures of immediate conscious leisure experiences: Engagement, immersion, and absorption	9
“The forest is my church”: Spirituality and the trail to recovery	9
How tourism decision-making and on-site interactions promote family benefits: A power perspective	9
A music community, 10 years later	8
Examining the long-term effect of leisure engagement, leisure satisfaction, and perceived discrimination on stress perception among Koreans with physical disabilities	8
Social media ritual as a digital leisure culture: Interpreting ritual communication in online communities	8
Exploring inclusivity in travel and leisure: Insights from Filipino Muslim families	8
The stimulus-organism-response approach to the overcrowding problem: Qualitative evidence from theme park visitors	8
The legacy of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for leisure studies: An introduction to this special ‘tribute’ issue	8
The unity of body and mind: the integration of leisure and religious practices by rural older women in the Chaoshan area of China	8
Unlocking the power of leisure: Associations between leisure activity and social integration of family and individual migrants	8
Leisure provision and refugee settlement: A scoping review with stakeholder engagement to inform policy and practice	8
Experiential factors predicting the short-term impact of a museum visit	7
Examining basic psychological need frustration’s relevance to leisure: A case of Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Aligned: Women’s stories of trauma, leisure, health, and the work of healing	7
Cribbage culture and social worlds: An analysis of closeness, inclusiveness, and specialization	7
Wildland encounter norms across time and activity type: Stable preferences and shifting thresholds	7
Self-esteem mediates the association of leisure activities with adolescents’ mental health difficulties and prosocial behavior: Evidence from a UK-representative cohort	7
The mediating role of passion in the relationship between serious leisure and well-being among university sport club participants	6
Sexual leisure and profiles of coping with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sex life: Using cluster analysis approach	6
How do fan engagement and sport participation influence adaptation to campus and life satisfaction? A Comparison between American domestic and Asian international students	6
Perceived ownership of urban parks: The role of the social environment	6
Comparison of reported outdoor activities in Florida State Parks among three fitness tracker apps	6
Introduction to theme issue on leisure across the life course	6
The effect of pandemic-related stress on the decision-making process for individual outdoor leisure activities	6
Leisure, eudaimonic behavior, physical activity and well-being of older adults	5
Stress, anxiety, leisure changes, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
‘This was like some Little House on the Prairie shit’: The intensive care(work) of making PPE during COVID-19	5
Hybrid habitats: Remediating leisure, space and youth throughPokémon Goin India	5
Participation in extracurricular leisure activities among primary school pupils: Effects of ethnic-cultural background, gender and school diversity	5
Impact of COVID-19 on vacation recreational walking: Evidence from an urban coastal destination	5
Gratitude mediates the relationship between leisure social support and loneliness among first-year university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan	5
Constructing a Conspicuous Leisure Behavior Scale	4
Toward a more integrated understanding of young children’s family leisure experiences: The intersection of attachment theory and family leisure	4
A gender perspective analysis of Chinese nationals’ leisure time allocation: Family life cycle versus demographic determinants	4
Bridging esport, sport and leisure: Empirical perspectives from esport consumers	4
Turn off to tune in: Digital disconnection, digital consciousness, and meaningful leisure	4
Social capital and successful aging among senior park golfers	4
Recreation and sport programs for social-emotional development among socially vulnerable youth	4
Introduction to theme issue on leisure and COVID-19	4
Evolving domestic tourism destination preferences post-apartheid	4
Developing an instrument to assess the satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs during the leisure activity of birdwatching (Birding-BPNSF)	4
COVID-19, mobility, leisure, and travel around the world	4
Flow as a catalyst for positive youth development	4
Programming parks. How do organized events and activities affect the inclusivity of urban green spaces?	4
Context-free and work-related benefits of a leisure crafting intervention: A randomized controlled trial	3
Fathering outdoors: Past, present, and future influences	3
Development and validation of a scale measuring public perceptions of racial environmental justice in parks	3
Travel patterns and multi-destinations of visitors: Toward marine park management strategies	3

Chan summer camp templestay as an educational leisure and tourism activity in China: Learning process and spiritual outcomes	3
Regional disparities in green space access and associations with adult obesity: An urban–rural comparison in Florida	3
“Just shut out the world”: Bullied adolescents’ structured recreational and sports activities and their relationship to wellbeing and friendship	3
The role of past campus recreational sports participation in predicting students’ stress and competence during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Grandparent couples’ experiences of family leisure	3
U.S. wilderness in the 21st century: A scoping review of wilderness visitor use management research from 2000 to 2020	3
The more you interact, the more leisure you have: A study of social interaction and serious leisure involvement	3
Do working hours affect artistic and cultural participation? Evidence from Korea considering cultural genre and skill level	3
“We have our own cultural ways of being in nature”: New perspectives on African Americans’ relationships to U.S. National Parks	3
Identifying leisure education topics for university student well-being: A Delphi study	3