OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Studies is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Subjective norms, attitudes, and intentions of AR technology use in tourism experience: the moderating effect of millennials	38
To be or not to be: negotiating leisure constraints with technology and data analytics amid the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Leisure experience and participation and its contribution to stress-related growth amid COVID-19 pandemic	32
How to re-engage older adults in community sport? Reasons for drop-out and re-engagement	25
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people	23
The impact of out-of-home leisure before quarantine and domestic leisure during quarantine on subjective well-being	21
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment	20
Social stratification of leisure time sport and exercise activities: comparison of ten popular sports activities	20
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	19
Using the Theories of Planned Behaviour and Leisure Constraints to study Fitness Club Members’ behaviour after Covid-19 Lockdown	17
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society	16
Barriers to leisure-time social participation and community integration among Syrian and Iraqi refugees	16
Changing Australian leisure mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the role of automobilities	15
Bobbing in the park: wild swimming, conviviality and belonging	15
Understanding the importance of sport stadium visits to teams and cities through the eyes of online reviewers	15
Creative tourism and creative spaces in China	15
Nearby nature in lockdown: Practices and affordances for leisure in urban green spaces	15
Serious leisure experience in a dyadic pursuit: elite player motivations and participation in tournament bridge	15
The mega-events database: systematising the evidence on mega-event outcomes	14
MOTORCYCLE TOURISM AND NATURE: an analysis of motorcyclists´ motivations to travel	14
Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation	14
Role of cultural worldview in predicting heritage tourists’ behavioural intention	13
Seeking tourism in a social context: an examination of Chinese rural migrant workers’ travel motivations and constraints	13
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?	13
Leisure time physical activity, social support, health perception, and mental health among women with breast cancer	13

Power of good old days: how leisure nostalgia influences work engagement, task performance, and subjective well-being	13
Exploring adolescent computer gaming as leisure experience and consumption: some insights on deviance and resistance	12
Social capital from sport event participation: scale development and validation	12
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety	12
Sports participation during a lockdown. How COVID-19 changed the sports frequency and motivation of participants in club, event, and online sports	12
The role of health beliefs in moderating the relationship between leisure participation and wellbeing among older Chinese adults	11
Online and offline leisure, relatedness and psychological distress: a study of young people in Switzerland	11
Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity	11
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure	11
Sport mega-event governance and human rights: the ‘Ruggie Principles’, responsibility and directions	11
Can leisure crafting enhance leisure engagement? The role of time structure and leisure type	10
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	10
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Sites of intensity: leisure and emotions amid the necropolitics of asylum	10
A critique of serious leisure as theory	10
Perceived constraints and negotiation strategies by elderly tourists when visiting heritage sites	9
Happiology in community festivals: a case of Filipino repeat local participants	9
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction	9
Does the Olympic legacy and sport participation influence resident support for future events?	9
The importance of support for sport tourism development among local residents: the mediating role of the perceived impacts of sport tourism	9
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape	8
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred	8
Impact of Perceived Social Apathy on Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	7
The influence of paternal co-participation on girls’ participation in surfing, mountain biking, and skateboarding in regional Australia	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
Exploring the Personal and Social Aspects of Individuals with Physical Disabilities’ Leisure Experiences: experiencing leisure but as an individual person	7
Familial cultural activities and child development – Findings from a longitudinal panel study	7
“Running makes me feel …”: The production of emotion through leisure	7
The 4-day work-week: the new leisure society?	7
Virtual reality tourism and technology acceptance: a disability perspective	7
Fan attitudes towards sexual minorities in German men’s football	7
Community and social correlates of leisure activity participation among older adults	7
Understanding visitors’ leisure benefits and heritage meaning-making: a case study of Liangzhu Culture Museum	7
U.S. family cultures of sport and physical activity and 15 year olds’ physical activity, sports participation, and subjective health	7
Contested bodies in a regenerating city: post-migrant men’s contingent citizenship, parkour and diaspora spaces	6
Leisure, inequalities, and the Global South	6
Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online	6
Of companionship, curfew, and conflict: multispecies leisure in the age of COVID	6
Watching the FIFA World Cup under cosmopolitanisation: how football fans in Hong Kong followed the 2018 World Cup	6
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram	6
Relationships between social support and satisfaction- moderating role of facilitation	6
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause	6
Queering urban space through informal recreation: The experiences of a queer, predominantly Asian volleyball community in New York City	6
Industry insights and post pandemic practices for entrepreneurship and innovation in leisure	6
Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women	6
Running through the in-between: Distance runners in a state of liminality	5
From serious leisure to devotee work: an exploratory study of yoga	5
Parents perceptions of online physical activity and leisure with early years children during Covid-19 and beyond	5
Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico	5

“To call my own”: migrant women, nature-based leisure and emotional release after divorce in Hong Kong	5
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals	5
The impact of pet attachment on life satisfaction: the multi-mediation effects of leisure seriousness and serious leisure rewards	5
Gambling lifestyles: The importance of social capital and diverse networks	5
Lockdown leisure	5
Ageing in the context of accompanying migration: a leisure stress coping perspective	5
Promotion of leisure-time physical activity by craft breweries in Knoxville, Tennessee	5
Connotation of leisure and leisure activities among urban Indian middle-class working women	5
Understanding people’s motivations for a long-distance hiking trip	5
Globalised and culturally homogenised? How Generation Z in Poland spends their free time	5
The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats	5
‘A wholly racialized world’: racial inequalities and peer review in leisure and tourism studies	5
College students’ perceptions of healthy and unhealthy leisure: associations with leisure behaviour	5
Urban park accessibility and the mental health of older adults: a case study of Haidian District, Beijing	4
Extracurricular activities, graduate attributes and serious leisure: competitive sport versus social-cultural clubs in campus life	4
Outdoor participation and intent among indoor climbers: findings from the U.S. and Canada	4
The influence of triathletes’ serious leisure traits on sport constraints, involvement, and participation	4
Depression and leisure-based meaning-making: anhedonia as a mediating factor	4
Understanding drugs as leisure through the (de)differentiation lens and the dialectic of Logos- and Eros-modernity	4
Thickening serious leisure: a review of studies that employed the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) between 2008 and 2019	4
Changes in the recreational physical activity (RPA) behaviours caused by COVID-19 lockdown – a case study of Poland	4
Exploring esport players’ motivation, experiences, and well-being	4
Switching channels: investigating the push, pull, and mooring effects of moving from cable TV to OTT services	4
An extension of the theory of planned behaviour in Thailand cycling tourism: the mediating role of attractiveness of sustainable alternatives	4
Hijab in the water! Muslim women and participation in aquatic leisure activities in New Zealand: an intersectional approach	4
The Impacts of Work–Family Interface and Coping Strategy on the Relationship between Workaholism and Burnout in Campus Recreation and Leisure Employees	4
Ticket to intoxication: Exploring attendees’ motivations for attending craft beer events	4
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness	4
Understanding leisure’s impacts on sources of life worth living: a multi-domain approach	4
“We could just be what we wanted to be”: The role of leisure and recreation in supporting women’s mental health during COVID-19	4
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury	4
Rejoinder to Veal’s ‘a critique of serious leisure as theory’	4
Emotions and leisure: new insights and perspectives	4
Vinum Regum: Classic themes in fine drinking stories	4
CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity	4