OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Leisure Research is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
“White-Savior Industrial Complex” in leisure studies: A response to Anderson, Knee, & Mowatt	39
A national longitudinal study examining social-emotional benefits of summer camp for early adolescents: Effects of attendance, dosage, and experience quality	34
Women’s cycling rides: Collective pathways to optimal experience	23
Co-creating family-inclusive leisure experiences: A study of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house	16
Landscape attributes as stimuli for cognitive restoration in the outdoor environment: A systematic review and thematic analysis	15
It is more than fun and making friends: Social leisure and leisure experiences of Taiwanese urban women	14
Interrelationships among parental play belief, household playfulness, school play behaviors, and social competence of kindergarten children	14
Phenomenological exploration of young adults’ recreational cannabis use experiences and associated leisure meanings	14
Meanings of traditional Chinese leisure: Perspectives from etymology, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism	13
Exploring the link between runners’ involvement and well-being using the psychological continuum model	13
Evaluating diversity, equity, and inclusivity in outdoor programs for veterans on public lands	12
“We do revolve our lives around it” – The meaning and significance of being a collegiate women’s basketball fan among older women	12
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being	11
Leveraging regional Senior Games for older adults’ participation in sport and leisure-time physical activity: The event organizers’ perspective	10
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”	10
Use of social media before, during and after family trips	10
The Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS): Preliminary evidence of reliability and validity	9
Examining the relationships between mindfulness, eudaimonic and hedonic experiences, place attachment, loyalty: the moderating role of flow	9
Comparing summer camp to other summertime settings: An explanatory-sequential mixed-methods study	9
How tourism decision-making and on-site interactions promote family benefits: A power perspective	9
The impact of outdoor therapeutic recreation on suicidality: A mixed-method systematic review	9
Game on or game over? A cross-sectional study of factors impacting sport-active and sport-inactive Australian adults	8
Finding flow in pandemic times: Leisure opportunities for optimal experience and positive mental health among Italian university students	8
Sense of community in roller derby	8
Ascending past constraints through immersion into the social worlds of climbing gyms	8

Transition to a new baby: Exploring the association between couple leisure, coparenting and parenting practices	8
“The forest is my church”: Spirituality and the trail to recovery	7
Unlocking the power of leisure: Associations between leisure activity and social integration of family and individual migrants	7
Category versus labeled magnitude scale measures of immediate conscious leisure experiences: Engagement, immersion, and absorption	7
The stimulus-organism-response approach to the overcrowding problem: Qualitative evidence from theme park visitors	7
Valuing nature-based recreation in forest areas in Italy: An application of Travel Cost Method (TCM)	7
Examining the long-term effect of leisure engagement, leisure satisfaction, and perceived discrimination on stress perception among Koreans with physical disabilities	6
Challenges of ecological momentary assessments to study family leisure: Participants’ perspectives	6
The unity of body and mind: the integration of leisure and religious practices by rural older women in the Chaoshan area of China	6
The legacy of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for leisure studies: An introduction to this special ‘tribute’ issue	6
Exploring inclusivity in travel and leisure: Insights from Filipino Muslim families	6
A music community, 10 years later	6
Experiential factors predicting the short-term impact of a museum visit	6
Cribbage culture and social worlds: An analysis of closeness, inclusiveness, and specialization	5
How do fan engagement and sport participation influence adaptation to campus and life satisfaction? A Comparison between American domestic and Asian international students	5
It’s both experience and context, and that’s just leisure	5
Wildland encounter norms across time and activity type: Stable preferences and shifting thresholds	5
The effect of pandemic-related stress on the decision-making process for individual outdoor leisure activities	5
Study on the role and internal mechanism of corporate leisure welfare in alleviating employee burnout	5
Examining basic psychological need frustration’s relevance to leisure: A case of Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex”	5
Comparison of reported outdoor activities in Florida State Parks among three fitness tracker apps	5