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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	26
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	21
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	20
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ^® Serious Play ^® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ	18
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	17
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	17
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	16
"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	16
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	15
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	15
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants	14
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	14
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	14
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction	13
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence	13
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences	13
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities	13
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	13
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts	12
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	12
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	12
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism	12
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities	12
Parting Thoughts XIII	11
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker	10

Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	10
Enjoying the Night’s Splendor: Exploring the Effect of Urban Residents’ Nighttime Leisure Involvement on Subjective Well-Being: Symmetric and Asymmetric Analysis	10
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	10
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	10
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors	9
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow	9
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	9
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation	9
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	9
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain	9
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	9
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown	9
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	9
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	8
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure	8
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography	8
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	8
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing	8
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	7
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences	7
Parting Thoughts IX	7
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	7
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	7
Shifting Our Perspective of the Meaning of a “Lost Summer”	7
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	7
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom	7
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	7
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	6
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	6
Investigating the Prevalence and Distribution of Sport Fandom	6
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers	6
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	6
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	6
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	6
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	6
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	6
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	5
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	5
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	5
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	5
‘Sauna Is My Nest!’: Sense of Community Among Korean Middle-Aged Women Enjoying Sauna Bathing	5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	5
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	5
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	5
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	5
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	5
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	5
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	5
Correction	5

Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities	5
The Effect of Outdoor Play, Physical Activity, and Screen Time Use on the Emotional Wellbeing of Children and Youth during a Health Crisis	4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings	4
Racial Residential Segregation and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Prevalence in Chicago, IL	4
Dry and Outside: The Rise of Sober Outdoor Recreation Experiences	4
Spinning Fast Without Falling: Women’s Embodied Empowerment Through Roller Derby	4
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming	4
Parting Thoughts XLIX: Gossip as Social Currency	4
Understanding Sex as Leisure Among Transgender Men Using Foucauldian Theorization: Heterotopia, Technologies of Self, and Inversions of Sexual Roles	4
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips	4
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace	4
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging	4
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	4
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	4
Parting Thoughts VI	4
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure	4
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response	4