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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience	34
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil	33
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches	29
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing	26
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness	26
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women	24
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats	23
Pondering everyday life: coordination, continuity, and comparison	22
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations	21
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	21
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces	18
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause	17
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting	16
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research	16
The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response	16
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance	15
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure	15
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure	14
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?	14
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport	14
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places	13
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’	13
‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy	13
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants	13
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns	13

“The climate crisis is violence:” sexual and gender-based violence and bicycles for mobility justice and development in Nicaragua ¹	12
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India	12
Skateboard video: archiving the city from below	12
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model	12
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands	12
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children	11
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety	11
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach	11
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey	11
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers	10
Doom-mongers beware: an analysis of the health of leisure studies	10
Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events by Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, and	10
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective	10
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival	10
City of courts: excavating the future in West Los Angeles	10
‘I drew myself playing football with the clouds and the sun’: qualitative research methods to explore children’s leisure experiences in disadvantaged contexts of less economically developed countries	10
Of companionship, curfew, and conflict: multispecies leisure in the age of COVID	10
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy	10
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children	9
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour	9
Mountain biking as a prism: a review of ‘mountain biking, culture and society’	9
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram	9
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues	9
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation	9
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape	9
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people	8
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury	8
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance	8
Analysing family conversations and interactions during visits to Parque das Aves (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil) from children’s perspective	8
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players	8
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices	8
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn	8
Aesthetic capital as a work strategy among precarious migrant coaches in China’s leisure industry	7
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals	7
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure	7
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society	7
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies	7
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory	7
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Enhancing age-friendly cities and communities through culturally responsive leisure: recommendations from older Black lesbians	7
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres	7
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction	7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	6
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league	6
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China	6
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power	6
Holding the fish herself: women anglers and gendered power relations in Swedish recreational fishing	6
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach	6
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers	6
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability	6

Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review	6
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	6
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’	6
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory	6
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey	6
Gender, sport and society: an introduction	5
Leisure and everyday life with dementia	5
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations	5
Exploring the lived experience associated with fan-made goods: a serious leisure perspective	5
Visitor and spatial heterogeneity in the uses of urban parks: evidence from mobile signaling data	5
Leveraging cultural eventscape design experience to realise women empowerment: a social entrepreneurship perspective	5
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences	5
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces	5
Finding the right balance: youths’ perspectives on parental involvement in dance	5
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred	5
From serious leisure to passionate pastime: expanding the conceptual landscape	5
The work spouse: a hidden influence agent in personal and household leisure decision-making	5
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting	5
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view	5
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance	5