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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	26
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	24
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ^® Serious Play ^® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ	22
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	22
The Ambivalence of Ultra Endurance Sports for Athletes’ Partners: Share, Support or Separate Dilemma	20
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	19
Leisure in Extremis : A Festschrift for Karl Spracklen	18
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	16
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants	15
Nexus of Campers’ Experiences: Family Support and Product Involvement Influence Place Dependence, Mediated by Serious Leisure and Co-Production	15
Special Forces-Style Tourism among Chinese Generation Z: Motivations and Experiences through the Lens of Authenticity Theory	14
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	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
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	13
Making, Unmaking and Remaking Masculinity Through Leisure	13
(de)Parting Thoughts: Leisure at the Edges – A Visualised Essay	13
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	12
How Nature-Based Leisure Activities Shape Subjective Well-Being: The Roles of Immersion and Social Context	11
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
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	11
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
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	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
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	9
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	9
How Outdoor Guide Service Quality Influences Tourist Satisfaction: A Chain Mediation Model in Adventure Tourism	9
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	9
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts	9
Parting Thoughts XIII	9
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors	9
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
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	8
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	8
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure	7
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	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
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	7
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	7
‘Abide With Me’: being an Insider in the Habermasian lifeworld	7
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	6
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	6
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences	6
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	6
Examining Pathways to Camping Access in Rural Western U.S.: An Application of Access Theory	6
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain	6
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	6
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	6
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography	6
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom	6
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	6
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing	6
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
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	5
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	5
Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities	5
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	5
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	5
Milking Meaning: Dairy Farming as Serious Leisure and the Role of Grit	5
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	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
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	5
Parting Thoughts IX	5
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	5
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	5
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	5

Investigating the Prevalence and Distribution of Sport Fandom	5
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	4
The Birding Lifestyle - An Exploration of the Relationships Among Birding Involvement, Motivation and Recreation Specialization	4
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	4
Leisure Territories and Epistemologies of the South: Social Justice in Dialogue with Karl Spracklen	4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings	4
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	4
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	4
‘Sauna Is My Nest!’: Sense of Community Among Korean Middle-Aged Women Enjoying Sauna Bathing	4
Correction	4
Dry and Outside: The Rise of Sober Outdoor Recreation Experiences	4
Racial Residential Segregation and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Prevalence in Chicago, IL	4
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	4
The Enduring Negotiations of Being and Becoming: An Acknowledgement of Karl Spracklen’s Leadership in Rugby League Scholarship	4
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	4
Self-Care as a Mediator of Leisure Awareness, Psychological Well-Being, and Quality of Life in Iranian Youth	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
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	3
“I Want to be Part of Them”: A Phenomenological Study of Chinese Table Tennis Players Seeking Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in Korea	3
No such Thing as Bad Birding Weather, but Depends on Personal Experience	3
How Do Compulsory Volunteer Experiences at Sporting Events Help Improve Sport Participation and Life Satisfaction?	3
Empowerment Through Solo Travel: The Self-Identity Transformation of Chinese Women in Emerging Adulthood	3
Pro-Environmental Attitudes, E-Bike Adoption Motivations, and Tourist Green Behavior	3
One Family, Two Leisure Worlds: Analysis of Gender Order and Its Relationship to the “Leisure Gap” Between Mothers and Fathers	3
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace	3
Neighborhood Commercial Circle Environmental Factors for Generation Z Visitors: Scale Development and Validation	3
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response	3
What Are They Exchanging? Exploring the Sources of Tourist Social Exchange from the Perspective of Place Attachment	3
Peritraumatic leisure	3
Parting Thoughts XLIX: Gossip as Social Currency	3
The Effect of Outdoor Play, Physical Activity, and Screen Time Use on the Emotional Wellbeing of Children and Youth during a Health Crisis	3
“But I Also like to Enjoy my Time, I’m Not a Student 24 Hours a Day”: Adolescents’ Perspectives About Organized Leisure and School Stress	3
Leisure and Emotional Well-Being in the Moment: A within-Person Mediation Analysis of Momentary Autonomy and Mastery	3
Spinning Fast Without Falling: Women’s Embodied Empowerment Through Roller Derby	3
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming	3
The ‘Attachment Style-Leisure’ Framework: A Conceptualized Framework for Transformation Between Stressful Exercises and Leisure Activities	3
Our Park, Our Community: Exploring Psychological Ownership in Public Open Spaces	3
Understanding Birdwatching Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory	3
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging	3
Drained Tourists: Goal Conflict Undermines Well-Being via Ego Depletion and Self-Regulation Failure	3