OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Sciences is 4. 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
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	26
Leisure in Extremis : A Festschrift for Karl Spracklen	25
The Ambivalence of Ultra Endurance Sports for Athletes’ Partners: Share, Support or Separate Dilemma	23
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ^® Serious Play ^® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ	22
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	22
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	20
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	19
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	17
Nexus of Campers’ Experiences: Family Support and Product Involvement Influence Place Dependence, Mediated by Serious Leisure and Co-Production	16
Special Forces-Style Tourism among Chinese Generation Z: Motivations and Experiences through the Lens of Authenticity Theory	15
Making, Unmaking and Remaking Masculinity Through Leisure	14
"É nossa, é Do Brasil Inteiro” (It’s Ours, It’s for the Whole of Brazil”): Football, The Yellow Shirt, National Politics, and Conjunctural Contestation	14
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	14
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	14
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants	14
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	13
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction	11
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities	11
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	11
How Nature-Based Leisure Activities Shape Subjective Well-Being: The Roles of Immersion and Social Context	11
(de)Parting Thoughts: Leisure at the Edges – A Visualised Essay	11
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts	10
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	10
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence	10
Moral Foundations, Welcomeness and Belonging, and Visitation to Manassas National Battlefield Park: The Necessity of Nuance for Understanding Interpretive Preferences	10

Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism	9
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	9
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	9
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	9
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	9
How Outdoor Guide Service Quality Influences Tourist Satisfaction: A Chain Mediation Model in Adventure Tourism	9
Parting Thoughts XIII	9
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	8
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	8
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors	8
Enjoying the Night’s Splendor: Exploring the Effect of Urban Residents’ Nighttime Leisure Involvement on Subjective Well-Being: Symmetric and Asymmetric Analysis	8
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow	8
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown	8
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation	8
‘Abide With Me’: being an Insider in the Habermasian lifeworld	7
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	7
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	7
Navigating Relational Complexity After Wilderness Accidents in Serious Leisure Contexts	7
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	7
“Playing Video Games is How I Unwind”: Qualitative Reports of Gaming Benefits and Detriments in a Community Sample of Adults	7
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker	7
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing	6
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure	6
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom	6
A Multi-Source Data-Based Case Study on the Impact of Environmental Quality Differences on Diurnal-Nocturnal Recreational Vitality of Urban Parks	6
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	6
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences	6
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain	6
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	6
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography	6
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	6
Examining Pathways to Camping Access in Rural Western U.S.: An Application of Access Theory	6
Understanding Community Green spaces’ Leisure Attractiveness for Older Adults Based on Spatial Heterogeneity	5
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	5
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	5
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	5
Parting Thoughts IX	5
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	5
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	5
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	5
The Lacanian Subject at Leisure: Fantasy and Impossibility	5
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	5
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	5
More Than a Label: Exploring How a Sport-Based Diversion Program Shapes Identity among Justice-Involved Youth	5
Parting Thoughts XLVIII: “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other”	5
Milking Meaning: Dairy Farming as Serious Leisure and the Role of Grit	5
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	5
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	5
A Conceptual Framework of Smartwatch Usage in Outdoor Recreation Activities: A Topic Modeling and Qualitative Inquiry	5

Serious Leisure, Job Satisfaction, & the Moderating Effect of Job Task Load	5
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	5
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	5
Investigating the Prevalence and Distribution of Sport Fandom	5
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	5
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	4
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	4
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	4
Correction	4
Dry and Outside: The Rise of Sober Outdoor Recreation Experiences	4
The Birding Lifestyle - An Exploration of the Relationships Among Birding Involvement, Motivation and Recreation Specialization	4
The Enduring Negotiations of Being and Becoming: An Acknowledgement of Karl Spracklen’s Leadership in Rugby League Scholarship	4
Racial Residential Segregation and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Prevalence in Chicago, IL	4
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	4
Understanding Sex as Leisure Among Transgender Men Using Foucauldian Theorization: Heterotopia, Technologies of Self, and Inversions of Sexual Roles	4
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	4
Self-Care as a Mediator of Leisure Awareness, Psychological Well-Being, and Quality of Life in Iranian Youth	4
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	4
Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities	4
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	4
Leisure Territories and Epistemologies of the South: Social Justice in Dialogue with Karl Spracklen	4
‘Sauna Is My Nest!’: Sense of Community Among Korean Middle-Aged Women Enjoying Sauna Bathing	4