OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Sciences 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Less Sex, but More Sexual Diversity: Changes in Sexual Behavior during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic	163
Are You OK, Boomer? Intensification of Ageism and Intergenerational Tensions on Social Media Amid COVID-19	97
Promoting Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Social Well-Being during COVID-19	87
Festivals Post Covid-19	69
Distancing from the Present: Nostalgia and Leisure in Lockdown	51
Adventure in the Age of COVID-19: Embracing Microadventures and Locavism in a Post-Pandemic World	51
COVID-19 and its Impact on Volunteering: Moving Towards Virtual Volunteering	51
Queer Isolation or Queering Isolation? Reflecting upon the Ramifications of COVID-19 on the Future of Queer Leisure Spaces	38
By Bread Alone: Baking as Leisure, Performance, Sustenance, During the COVID-19 Crisis	34
Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and COVID-19	34
Power and Social Control of Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic	33
Gender Differences in Connection to Nature, Outdoor Preferences, and Nature-Based Recreation Among College Students in Brazil and the United States	33
Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism	32
Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response Special Issue	30
Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks	28
Pandemic Precarity: Aging and Social Engagement	25
Pandemic Motherhood and the Academy: A Critical Examination of the Leisure-Work Dichotomy	25
What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories	21
#QuarantineChallenge2k20: Leisure in the Time of the Pandemic	20
“Washing Hands, Reaching Out” – Popular Music, Digital Leisure and Touch during the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Walking Off-Trail in National Parks: Monkey See Monkey Do	19
The Influence of Leisure Engagement on Daily Emotional Well-Being	18
Placemaking as Unmaking: Settler Colonialism, Gentrification, and the Myth of “Revitalized” Urban Spaces	16
Biopolitics, Essential Labor, and the Political-Economic Crises of COVID-19	15
The Hogwarts Running Club and Sense of Community: A Netnography of a Virtual Community	15

Digging Deeper: Engaging in Reflexivity in Interpretivist-Constructivist and Critical Leisure Research	15
Leisure Crafting: Scale Development and Validation	15
Single Women’s Leisure during the Coronavirus Pandemic	15
Sexuality, Sports-Related Mistreatment, and U.S. Adults’ Sports Involvement	13
Beyond Hypervisibility and Fear: British Chinese Communities’ Leisure and Health-Related Experiences in the Time of Coronavirus	12
Dogs Unleashed: The Positive Role Dogs Play during COVID-19	12
Work-Leisure Conflict and Well-Being: The Role of Leisure Nostalgia	12
Neighboring in the Time of Coronavirus? Paying Civil Attention While Walking the Neighborhood	12
Social Media as a Pathway to Leisure: Digital Leisure Culture among New Mothers with Young Children in Taiwan	12
A People’s Future of Leisure Studies: Leisure with the Enemy Under COVID-19	11
Visibility and Vulnerability on Instagram: Negotiating Safety in Women’s Online-Offline Fitness Spaces	11
Promotores for Parks? The Potential of a Public Health Model to Improve Outreach and Community Engagement in Park Planning	10
Rainbows, Teddy Bears and ‘Others’: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Leisure Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
On Not Knowing: COVID-19 and Decolonizing Leisure Research	10
Evaluating the Temporal Dynamics of a Structured Experience: Real-Time Skin Conductance and Experience Reconstruction Measures	9
Motivations and Constraints for the Ghost Tourism: A Case Study in Spain	9
Why Don’t We PlayPandemic?Analog Gaming Communities in Lockdown	9
Chinese Perceptions of Overseas Cultural Heritage: Emotive Existential Authenticity, Exoticism and Experiential Tourism	9
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	9
Not Enough Time? Leisure and Multiple Dimensions of Time Wealth	8
Personality and Subjective Well-Being among Elder Adults: Examining the Mediating Role of Cycling Specialization	8
Happiness from Nature? Adolescents’ Conceptions of the Relation between Happiness and Nature in Finland	8
Grit, Leisure Involvement, and Life Satisfaction: A Case of Amateur Triathletes in Japan	8
Self-Determination Strategy in Mountaineering: Collecting Colorado’s Highest Peaks	8
Socially Patterned Strategic Complementarity between Offline Leisure Activities and Internet Practices among Young People	8
Football is “the most important of the least important things”: The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19	8
Why Don’t They Travel? The Role of Constraints and Motivation for Non-Participation in Tourism	7
Where Is Leisure When Death Is Present?	7
Rural-Urban Interdependencies: Thinking through the Implications of Space, Leisure, Politics and Health	7
“Try Not to Make Waves”: Managing Gender Discrimination in Outdoor Recreation	7
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context	7
“If We’re Lost, we Are Lost Together”: Leisure and Relationality	7
From Displaced to Misplaced: Exploring the Experience of Visitors Who Were ‘Crowded Out’ of Their Recreation Destination	7
The Influence of Flow Experience and Serious Leisure on Attachment in Board Game	7
Capitalism and the (il)Logics of Higher Education’s COVID-19 Response: A Black Feminist Critique	6
Crowding, Emotions, Visitor Satisfaction and Loyalty in a Managed Visitor Attraction	6
Going the Extra Mile: Building Trust and Collaborative Relationships with Study Participants	6
“Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?”: Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth	6
Facilitating Disability Sport and Physical Recreation during the Initial Months of COVID-19: Examining Organizational Innovation in Third Sector Organizations	6
Relationship between Leisure Involvement, Voluntary Simplicity, Leisure Satisfaction, and Experiential Consumption	6
Unraveling the Research Process: Humanizing Leisure Scholars	6
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO₂ Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries	6
Storytelling for Mythmaking in Tourist Destinations	6
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Community Leisure for Low-Income Families: Programs, Policies and Procedures	6
Leisure’s Relationships with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Daily Life: An Experience Sampling Approach	6
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	6
Leisure Trips to the Natural Environment: Examining the Tradeoff between Economic and Environmental Impact	5
New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process: A Creative Experiment in Cutting Together-Apart	5
Which Attributes Are the Most Important in the Context of the Slow Food Festival?	5
“More Helpful than Hurtful”? Information, Technology, and Uncertainty in Outdoor Recreation	5

The Role of Facilitators in the Constraint Negotiation of Leisure-Time Physical Activity	5
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	5
Self-Isolated but Not Alone: Community Management Work in the Time of a Pandemic	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
Social Play? The Critical Role of Social Interaction in Geeky Games	5
The Effects of Risk and Uncertainty Perceptions on Tourists’ Intention to Visit Former Epicenters of COVID-19 Post-Pandemic: Evidence from China	5
COVID-19’s Impacts on Community-Based Sport and Recreation Programs: The Voices of Socially-Vulnerable Youth and Practitioners	5
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	5
Leisure Behind Bars: The Realities of COVID-19 for Youth Connected to the Justice System	5