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

Article	Citations
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	17
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	14
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	14
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	14
Volunteers’ Sense of (Dis)Connection at a Sport Event	13
"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	13
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	13
The Role of Facilitators in the Constraint Negotiation of Leisure-Time Physical Activity	13
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences	12
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	12
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	12
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	12
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	11
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	11
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	11
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism	10
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	10
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence	10
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction	10
Which Attributes Are the Most Important in the Context of the Slow Food Festival?	10
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	8
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities	8
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown	8
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	8
Parting Thoughts III	8

New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process: A Creative Experiment in Cutting Together-Apart	7
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation	7
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	7
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker	7
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	7
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	7
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	7
Parting Thoughts XIII	7
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	7
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow	6
Parting Thoughts IV	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
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
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	6
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	5
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	5
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	5
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	5
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography	5
Evaluating the Temporal Dynamics of a Structured Experience: Real-Time Skin Conductance and Experience Reconstruction Measures	5
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	5
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers	5
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	5
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	5
Shifting Our Perspective of the Meaning of a “Lost Summer”	5
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	5
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	5
Parting Thoughts IX	5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	4
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	4
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	4
Parting Thoughts II	4
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	4
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	4
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	4
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	4
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	4
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	4
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	4
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	4
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	4
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	4
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	4
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings	3
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	3
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure	3

What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips	3
Neighborhood Commercial Circle Environmental Factors for Generation Z Visitors: Scale Development and Validation	3
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming	3
Understanding Birdwatching Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory	3
Correction	3
Destination Meanings Shaped by Home Environment: A Schema-Based Intra-Cultural Comparison of Chinese and Macau Outbound Tourists in Europe	3
Why Don’t They Travel? The Role of Constraints and Motivation for Non-Participation in Tourism	3
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response	3
One Family, Two Leisure Worlds: Analysis of Gender Order and Its Relationship to the “Leisure Gap” Between Mothers and Fathers	3
Parting Thoughts VI	3
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace	3
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	3
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging	3
Our Park, Our Community: Exploring Psychological Ownership in Public Open Spaces	3