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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	22
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	16
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	15
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	15
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	14
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	13
Leisure and Human Rights … or Social Justice?	11
Physical Accessibility of Integrated Resort Facilities to Older Adults: Linking Perceived Facilitators, Constraints, and Universal Design Principles	11
How Do Urban Nature Parks Contribute to Psychological Restoration? The Perspective of Embodied Experience	10
Measuring Social Connectedness during Shared Leisure Activities Using Oxytocin: A Comparison of Sampling Urine versus Saliva	10
Leisure in the Garden of Forking Paths	10
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	10
Neoliberalism and Its (Leisure) Discontents	9
The Relationship between Measured Visitor Density and Perceived Crowding Revisited: Predicting Perceived Crowding in Outdoor Recreation	9
The Downward Spiral of Fear of Failure in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Practitioners	9
Family Vacation and Child’s Life Satisfaction: An Analysis of 2009-2010 U.S. Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Survey	9
Parting Thoughts XII: Fenton Litwiller	8
Carving Lines through Melting Lands: A Diffractive Engagement with Troubled and Troubling Relations of Alpine Skiing in the Anthropocene	8
Tourism Discourse and Surveillance: Situational Analysis of Post-Katrina New Orleans	8
“That Was My Power”: The Value of Physical Exercise for Migrant Women Managing Marital Breakdown	8
Tourists as Experience Collectors: A New Travelling Mind-Set	8
Green Leisure: Resistance and Revitalization of Urban Neighborhoods	7
The Effect of Centrality to Lifestyle and Experience-Involvement on Tourist Behavioral Intention: A Comparison of Hotel vs Hostel	7
Volunteers’ Sense of (Dis)Connection at a Sport Event	7
Together-in-Time	7

Social Infrastructure: Directions for Leisure Studies	7
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	7
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mindset of Fitness and Its Role in Elevating Children’s Leisure-Time Physical Activity	6
Blossoming: Finding a New Identity after the Loss of a Spouse	6
From Displaced to Misplaced: Exploring the Experience of Visitors Who Were ‘Crowded Out’ of Their Recreation Destination	6
Spring Celebration, Hıdrellez: Myth and Play	6
Zumba Instructor Strategies: Constraining or Liberating for Women Participants?	6
Parting Thoughts XXVI: Leisure, Loss, and Death	6
Correction	6
Sport Participation and the Development of Grit	6
The Role of Facilitators in the Constraint Negotiation of Leisure-Time Physical Activity	6
Playing Board Games to Increase Emotional Competencies in School-Age Children and Older People: A Systematic Review	6
Using Study Abroad Memories in Everyday Life: Insights from the Functional Approach to Autobiographical Memory	6
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	6
A Beautiful Game: Interpreting Football Videogame Experiences	6
Sexuality, Sports-Related Mistreatment, and U.S. Adults’ Sports Involvement	6
The Relationships between Leisure Time, Perceived Stress and Subjective Well-Being in Young and Middle-Aged Working Adults in China	5
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	5
Digital Leisure among Older Adults: Connections to Social Support, Flow, and Social Inclusion	5
A Phenomenological Exploration of the Intersectionality of Body Image and Identity of Female Rugby Players	5
Pleasant Anticipation of an After-Work Free-Time Activity and Work Engagement: Findings from Two Studies	5
Observations of Child Behaviors and Responsivity during Sensory Friendly Community Events	5
An Exploration of Leisure Motivation as Cultural Practices: A Cross-Cultural Approach	5
Couple Vacations: Linking Joint Vacation Experiences of Romantic Couples to Satisfaction with Relationship Life	5
Perceived Quality and Organizational Support for Enhancing Volunteers’ Leisure Satisfaction and Civic Engagement: A Case of the 2020 Super Bowl	5
Modeling Residents’ WOM Behavior Toward Tourism Through Altruism and the Theory of Reasoned Action	5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	5
Tourists at Work: Outstation Leisure Behavior of Airline Cabin Crew	5
Understanding the Outcomes of Associational Involvement in Football Fan Clubs: Assessing the Validity of Socialization and Selection Hypotheses	4
Gay Men’s Engagement with a Gay Campground Community in the Rural Southern United States	4
Koepalem at Home: Considering Leisure Places Beyond Humancentrism and Caring for the Unseen	4
Young Adults’ Acceptance of Later-Life Sexuality Is Predicted by Their General Sexual Attitudes and Viewing Sex as Leisure	4
The Myth of the Repack Group: Some Problems and Provocations from an Actor-Network Perspective	4
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	4
“Learning is Like a Preservative”: Lifelong Learning as Leisure	4
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	4
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	4
Parting Thoughts	4
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	4
Application of Theoretical Model for Leisure Practices Based on Constraints-Attitudes and Factors Associated with the Positive Perception of Wellbeing	4
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	4
Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families	4
Polish Family Leisure: Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP)	3
How Do Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of an Urban Greenway Influence Residents’ Visits and Recreational Physical Activity? Evidence From the Connswater Community Greenway, Belfast, Northern	3
The Power of Community: A Leisure-Based Approach to Postvention	3
Youth Perspectives on Genderplay Recreation Programming: Insights and Critiques on Identity Development Theories	3
Exploring Peace within the Cognitive-Affective Structure of the Destination Image of Glacier National Park	3
“I’ve Seen What Evil Men Do”: Military Mothering and Children’s Outdoor Risky Play	3
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO₂ Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries	3

Rural Sport Spectacles: Ice Hockey, Mythologies, and Meaning-Making in Rural Canada	3
Statement of Removal	3
A Thousand Catcalls: Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Violence in Online Dating	3
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Leisure and Academics of Chinese International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
“A Room of One’s Own”: Transnational Leisure in Public Spaces—The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong	3
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	3
College Students’ Healthy Leisure: Latent Profile Analyses of Constraints and Negotiation Strategies	3
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	3
Development and Validation of an Attitude Measure in Open Water Activities	3
Parting Thoughts II	3
"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	3