OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Sciences 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Placemaking as Unmaking: Settler Colonialism, Gentrification, and the Myth of “Revitalized” Urban Spaces	22
Digging Deeper: Engaging in Reflexivity in Interpretivist-Constructivist and Critical Leisure Research	17
Sexuality, Sports-Related Mistreatment, and U.S. Adults’ Sports Involvement	15
Happiness from Nature? Adolescents’ Conceptions of the Relation between Happiness and Nature in Finland	13
Visibility and Vulnerability on Instagram: Negotiating Safety in Women’s Online-Offline Fitness Spaces	13
Social Media as a Pathway to Leisure: Digital Leisure Culture among New Mothers with Young Children in Taiwan	12
Evaluating the Temporal Dynamics of a Structured Experience: Real-Time Skin Conductance and Experience Reconstruction Measures	11
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	11
Zumba Instructor Strategies: Constraining or Liberating for Women Participants?	11
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	10
From Displaced to Misplaced: Exploring the Experience of Visitors Who Were ‘Crowded Out’ of Their Recreation Destination	10
Crowding, Emotions, Visitor Satisfaction and Loyalty in a Managed Visitor Attraction	10
Grit, Leisure Involvement, and Life Satisfaction: A Case of Amateur Triathletes in Japan	9
Storytelling for Mythmaking in Tourist Destinations	9
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	9
The Influence of Flow Experience and Serious Leisure on Attachment in Board Game	9
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context	8
The Role of Facilitators in the Constraint Negotiation of Leisure-Time Physical Activity	8
Facilitating Disability Sport and Physical Recreation during the Initial Months of COVID-19: Examining Organizational Innovation in Third Sector Organizations	8
“Try Not to Make Waves”: Managing Gender Discrimination in Outdoor Recreation	8
A Broaden-and-Build Theoretical Perspective on Dark Tourism Visitors’ Transformative Emotional Journeys	7
Why Don’t They Travel? The Role of Constraints and Motivation for Non-Participation in Tourism	7
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences	7
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	7
COVID-19’s Impacts on Community-Based Sport and Recreation Programs: The Voices of Socially-Vulnerable Youth and Practitioners	7

Sport Participation and the Development of Grit	7
Gardens with Kerb Appeal - A Framework to Understand the Relationship between Britain in Bloom Gardeners and Their Front Gardens	7
Which Attributes Are the Most Important in the Context of the Slow Food Festival?	7
“Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?”: Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth	7
The Effects of Risk and Uncertainty Perceptions on Tourists’ Intention to Visit Former Epicenters of COVID-19 Post-Pandemic: Evidence from China	6
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Community Leisure for Low-Income Families: Programs, Policies and Procedures	6
Going the Extra Mile: Building Trust and Collaborative Relationships with Study Participants	6
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO₂ Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries	6
Exploring the Relationships Across Recreation Specialization, Leisure Satisfaction, and Happiness: The Case of Korean Hikers	6
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	6
Access to Urban Leisure: Investigating Mobility Justice for Transgender and Gender Diverse People on Public Transport	6
Leisure’s Relationships with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Daily Life: An Experience Sampling Approach	6
“More Helpful than Hurtful”? Information, Technology, and Uncertainty in Outdoor Recreation	6
Profiling the South African Recreational Domestic Tourist in the Era of COVID-19	6
Pro-Environmental Attitudes, E-Bike Adoption Motivations, and Tourist Green Behavior	6
Relationship between Leisure Involvement, Voluntary Simplicity, Leisure Satisfaction, and Experiential Consumption	6
Leisure Innovation for Older Adults in Urban China: Application and Reexamination of Leisure Innovation Theory	6
Social Activities Mediate the Relation between Fandom Identification and Psychological Well-Being	6
Green Leisure: Resistance and Revitalization of Urban Neighborhoods	6
Social Play? The Critical Role of Social Interaction in Geeky Games	6
“It’s Absolutely Intense, and I Love It!” A Qualitative Investigation of “Pegging” as Leisure	5
Dancing in Public Squares – Toward a Socially Synchronous Sense of Place	5
Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy	5
Rural Sport Spectacles: Ice Hockey, Mythologies, and Meaning-Making in Rural Canada	5
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	5
Parental Influence on Urban Adolescents’ Physical Activity Experience	5
Norm Stability: Visitors’ Perceptions of Crowding at Cumberland Island National Seashore	5
How Do College Students Use Their Free Time? A Latent Profile Analysis of Leisure Activities and Substance Use	5
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	5
No such Thing as Bad Birding Weather, but Depends on Personal Experience	5
Hypercasual and Hybrid-Casual Video Gaming: A Digital Leisure Perspective	5
New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process: A Creative Experiment in Cutting Together-Apart	5
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	5
Leisure Behaviors among Mothers and Fathers in Korean Transnational Split Families	5
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers	4
Parting Thoughts XV: When Nostalgic Heritage Sites Become a Leisure Getaway Haven	4
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities	4
Relationships of Social Support and Activity Attachment with Purpose in Life among Older Forest Bathers: A Mediated Model	4
“It’s like Lifting the Power”: Powerlifting, Digital Gendered Subjectivities, and the Politics of Multiplicity	4
Hsiao Yao: A Chinese Analog of the Classical Western Idea of Leisure	4
Roles of Culture on Casino Gambling among Laotian Immigrants in the U.S.	4
Perceived Quality and Organizational Support for Enhancing Volunteers’ Leisure Satisfaction and Civic Engagement: A Case of the 2020 Super Bowl	4
The Recreation Rationing Spectrum: A Planning Principle for the Fair Distribution of Scarce Recreation Resources	4
Square Dancing as a Leisure Pursuit Connecting to Meaning in Life among Taiwanese Middle-Aged Adults	4
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	4
“I Actually Have to Decide What I’m Doing:” How Youth Maintain Active Lifestyles in the Transition to Young Adulthood	4
Tourists as Experience Collectors: A New Travelling Mind-Set	3
I Have to do it, but I like it: The Sense of Enjoyment and Obligation in Adolescents’ Organized Leisure-Time Activities	3
“When All the Wheels Fall off”: Leisure’s Potential Role in Living with Suicide Loss	3
Sex as Leisure as a Coping Mechanism with the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sex Life	3

The Cortex in Context: Investigating the Influence of Activity and Space on Psychological Well-Being	3
A Qualitative Study Examining How Passion Impacts Sport Board Functioning	3
Exploring Peace within the Cognitive-Affective Structure of the Destination Image of Glacier National Park	3
Spring Celebration, Hıdrellez: Myth and Play	3
Queer Politics, the Gay Bar, and Hapless Victimhood during COVID-19: A Brief Response to Burns (2021) Queerness as/and Political Attunement	3
Neoliberalism and Its (Leisure) Discontents	3
Becoming a Researcher: Navigating Messy Researcher Subjectivities	3
Creating the Extraordinary: The Social Practices of a Fantasy Event	3
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	3
Carving Lines through Melting Lands: A Diffractive Engagement with Troubled and Troubling Relations of Alpine Skiing in the Anthropocene	3
The Role of Neighborhood Social Cohesion in the Association between Seeing People Walk and Leisure-Time Walking among Latino adults	3
Splendour XR: Place, Experience and Liveness at a Virtual Music Festival	3
Can Recreation Specialization Negatively Impact Pro-Environmental Behavior in Hiking Activity? A Self-Interest Motivational View	3
Destination Meanings Shaped by Home Environment: A Schema-Based Intra-Cultural Comparison of Chinese and Macau Outbound Tourists in Europe	3
The Myth of Skating History: Building Elitism into a Sport	3
The Artistic Work of Street Musicians in Barcelona and Rio De Janeiro: Interstices of Work and Leisure	3
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Leisure and Academics of Chinese International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
The Relationship between Measured Visitor Density and Perceived Crowding Revisited: Predicting Perceived Crowding in Outdoor Recreation	3