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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Phenomenological exploration of young adults’ recreational cannabis use experiences and associated leisure meanings	33
A national longitudinal study examining social-emotional benefits of summer camp for early adolescents: Effects of attendance, dosage, and experience quality	32
“White-Savior Industrial Complex” in leisure studies: A response to Anderson, Knee, & Mowatt	32
Landscape attributes as stimuli for cognitive restoration in the outdoor environment: A systematic review and thematic analysis	24
Women’s cycling rides: Collective pathways to optimal experience	18
Interrelationships among parental play belief, household playfulness, school play behaviors, and social competence of kindergarten children	15
Meanings of traditional Chinese leisure: Perspectives from etymology, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism	14
Co-creating family-inclusive leisure experiences: A study of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house	14
It is more than fun and making friends: Social leisure and leisure experiences of Taiwanese urban women	14
“We do revolve our lives around it” – The meaning and significance of being a collegiate women’s basketball fan among older women	13
Evaluating diversity, equity, and inclusivity in outdoor programs for veterans on public lands	13
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being	12
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”	11
Developing the Experience Impact Scale: A qualitative study using a study abroad and international internship program	11
Use of social media before, during and after family trips	11
Leveraging regional Senior Games for older adults’ participation in sport and leisure-time physical activity: The event organizers’ perspective	10
Examining the relationships between mindfulness, eudaimonic and hedonic experiences, place attachment, loyalty: the moderating role of flow	10
Leisure satisfaction and quality of life of residents in Ningbo, China	10
Leisure and China in the global context: Introduction to the special issue	9
Sibling relationship quality in the context of digital leisure and geographic distance for college-attending emerging adults	9
The impact of outdoor therapeutic recreation on suicidality: A mixed-method systematic review	8
The Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS): Preliminary evidence of reliability and validity	8
Comparing summer camp to other summertime settings: An explanatory-sequential mixed-methods study	8
How tourism decision-making and on-site interactions promote family benefits: A power perspective	7
Finding flow in pandemic times: Leisure opportunities for optimal experience and positive mental health among Italian university students	7

Ascending past constraints through immersion into the social worlds of climbing gyms	7
Valuing nature-based recreation in forest areas in Italy: An application of Travel Cost Method (TCM)	6
Game on or game over? A cross-sectional study of factors impacting sport-active and sport-inactive Australian adults	6
Sense of community in roller derby	6
Unlocking the power of leisure: Associations between leisure activity and social integration of family and individual migrants	6
Transition to a new baby: Exploring the association between couple leisure, coparenting and parenting practices	6
Promoting on-going participation in group fitness among older adults: An application of the Psychological Continuum Model	5
Category versus labeled magnitude scale measures of immediate conscious leisure experiences: Engagement, immersion, and absorption	5
Investigating the role of family travel and family functioning in promoting Chinese adolescents’ subjective wellbeing	5
Wildland encounter norms across time and activity type: Stable preferences and shifting thresholds	5
“The forest is my church”: Spirituality and the trail to recovery	5
Examining the long-term effect of leisure engagement, leisure satisfaction, and perceived discrimination on stress perception among Koreans with physical disabilities	5
Exploring inclusivity in travel and leisure: Insights from Filipino Muslim families	5
The legacy of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for leisure studies: An introduction to this special ‘tribute’ issue	5
The stimulus-organism-response approach to the overcrowding problem: Qualitative evidence from theme park visitors	5
Challenges of ecological momentary assessments to study family leisure: Participants’ perspectives	5
The unity of body and mind: the integration of leisure and religious practices by rural older women in the Chaoshan area of China	5