OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Studies 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
Locked down leisure in Britain	39
Subjective norms, attitudes, and intentions of AR technology use in tourism experience: the moderating effect of millennials	33
To be or not to be: negotiating leisure constraints with technology and data analytics amid the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Leisure experience and participation and its contribution to stress-related growth amid COVID-19 pandemic	30
A systematic quantitative literature review of empirical research on large-scale sport events’ social legacies	27
How to re-engage older adults in community sport? Reasons for drop-out and re-engagement	19
Embracing city life: physical activities and the social integration of the new generation of female migrant workers in urban China	19
The impact of out-of-home leisure before quarantine and domestic leisure during quarantine on subjective well-being	18
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	18
Social stratification of leisure time sport and exercise activities: comparison of ten popular sports activities	18
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment	18
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people	17
Benefits of leisure activities for the quality of life of older South Korean adults	17
Landscapes of tension, tribalism and toxicity: configuring a spatial politics of esport communities	16
How personality affects environmentally responsible behaviour through attitudes towards activities and environmental concern: evidence from a national park in Taiwan	15
Relationship between flow experience and subjective vitality among older adults attending senior centres	14
Changing Australian leisure mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the role of automobilities	14
Women’s mountaineering: accessing participation benefits through constraint negotiation strategies	13
MOTORCYCLE TOURISM AND NATURE: an analysis of motorcyclists´ motivations to travel	12
Using the Theories of Planned Behaviour and Leisure Constraints to study Fitness Club Members’ behaviour after Covid-19 Lockdown	12
Leisure time physical activity, social support, health perception, and mental health among women with breast cancer	12
Serious leisure experience in a dyadic pursuit: elite player motivations and participation in tournament bridge	12
Creative tourism and creative spaces in China	11
Consuming local: product, place, and experience in visitor reviews of urban Texas craft breweries	11
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?	11

Critical mountaineering decisions: technology, expertise and subjective risk in adventurous leisure	10
Barriers to leisure-time social participation and community integration among Syrian and Iraqi refugees	10
Voluntary dance performance as serious leisure and successful ageing	10
Understanding the importance of sport stadium visits to teams and cities through the eyes of online reviewers	10
Role of cultural worldview in predicting heritage tourists’ behavioural intention	10
Drawing a line in the sand: the social impacts of an LGBTQI+ event in an Australian rural community	10
Power of good old days: how leisure nostalgia influences work engagement, task performance, and subjective well-being	10
Nearby nature in lockdown: Practices and affordances for leisure in urban green spaces	10
Normative drag culture and the making of precarity	10
A critique of serious leisure as theory	10
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society	9
Does the Olympic legacy and sport participation influence resident support for future events?	9
Online and offline leisure, relatedness and psychological distress: a study of young people in Switzerland	9
Sports participation during a lockdown. How COVID-19 changed the sports frequency and motivation of participants in club, event, and online sports	9
Can leisure crafting enhance leisure engagement? The role of time structure and leisure type	8
The role of health beliefs in moderating the relationship between leisure participation and wellbeing among older Chinese adults	8
Moving beyond ideology: contemporary recreation and the neoliberal discourses of new public health	8
Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity	8
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation	8
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety	8
The pursuit of uniqueness and craving for freedom: the meaning of luxury in the age of access	7
Risky positioning – social aspirations and risk-taking behaviour in avalanche terrain	7
Social capital from sport event participation: scale development and validation	7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	7
Sojourners in Macau: blurring binaries of home/away and work/leisure	7
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure	7
Leisure satisfaction and happiness: the moderating role of religion	7
Happiology in community festivals: a case of Filipino repeat local participants	7
Changing identities through collective performance at events: the case of the Redhead Days	7
The influence of paternal co-participation on girls’ participation in surfing, mountain biking, and skateboarding in regional Australia	7
The ‘troika of security’: merging retrospective and futuristic ‘risk’ and ‘security’ assessments before Euro 2020	7
Exploring adolescent computer gaming as leisure experience and consumption: some insights on deviance and resistance	7
E‘Ride on!’: The Zwift platform as a space for virtual leisure	7
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children	7
Bobbing in the park: wild swimming, conviviality and belonging	7
Perceived constraints and negotiation strategies by elderly tourists when visiting heritage sites	7
Watching the FIFA World Cup under cosmopolitanisation: how football fans in Hong Kong followed the 2018 World Cup	6
The importance of support for sport tourism development among local residents: the mediating role of the perceived impacts of sport tourism	6
Sport mega-event governance and human rights: the ‘Ruggie Principles’, responsibility and directions	6
Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online	6
Cultural consonance predicts leisure satisfaction in Taiwan	6
Entangling voluntarism, leisure time and political work: the governmentalities of neighbourhood planning in England	6
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape	6
Exploring the Personal and Social Aspects of Individuals with Physical Disabilities’ Leisure Experiences: experiencing leisure but as an individual person	6
U.S. family cultures of sport and physical activity and 15 year olds’ physical activity, sports participation, and subjective health	6
Perceived contributory leisure in the context of hobby beekeeping: a multi-country comparison	6
‘We just thought everyone else is going so we might as well’: middle-class parenting and franchised baby/toddler swimming	6
Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women	6
Relationships between social support and satisfaction- moderating role of facilitation	6

The mega-events database: systematising the evidence on mega-event outcomes	6
Fan attitudes towards sexual minorities in German men’s football	6
‘What’s my score?’: the complexities of straight male Geo-Social Networking Application use	5
Seeking tourism in a social context: an examination of Chinese rural migrant workers’ travel motivations and constraints	5
Connotation of leisure and leisure activities among urban Indian middle-class working women	5
“To call my own”: migrant women, nature-based leisure and emotional release after divorce in Hong Kong	5
Queering urban space through informal recreation: The experiences of a queer, predominantly Asian volleyball community in New York City	5
We are Wu: assessing Chinese fans’ socio-cultural identification with the only Chinese footballer in a top European league	5
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction	5
College students’ perceptions of healthy and unhealthy leisure: associations with leisure behaviour	5
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred	5