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

Article	Citations
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’	32
Leisure and cultural change in Israeli society	25
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?	23
Fan attitudes towards sexual minorities in German men’s football	20
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment	20
Children and the city’s streets: playing as a possibility for leisure in different communities in Florianópolis, southern Brazil	19
The serious leisure perspective – a synthesis	18
Thickening serious leisure: a review of studies that employed the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) between 2008 and 2019	17
Daily struggles and aspirations: exploring the leisure capabilities of working children and adolescents in Turkey	15
The juggernaut endures: protest, Potemkinism, and Olympic reform	15
Pondering everyday life: coordination, continuity, and comparison	15
Identity, belonging, and community in men’s Roller Derby	15
Exploring how a disability sport charity utilises exchange relationships with external organisations to sustain operations in times of lockdown	15
Military veterans’ motivation and barriers to outdoor recreation participation	15
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women	14
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	14
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China	13
Arts festivals as polysystems: a case analysis of Morocco music and film festivals	13
Disabled animals and leisure: casting light on those left behind in the shadows	13
Examining the discursive production and deployment of diversity and inclusion in a UK-wide outdoor organisation	13
‘We tried to get rid of the stereotype’: media representations of multicultural festivals in Glasgow, Scotland	12
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league	12
Figurational research in sport, leisure and health, 1st edition	12
The development of pioneer national policy on adventure recreation in Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first review	12
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats	11

Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces	11
The influence of leisure patterns on the subjective well-being of the floating population—A social integration perspective	11
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers	11
Sport and nationalism in China	10
‘Living, that’s what we do’: an ethnographic account of time and leisure in the British asylum system	10
Lockdown Leisure	10
Same-sex romantic cruise experiences: the moderating effect of the personal openness trait	10
Exploring leisure constraints and participation among urban women through the lens of ambivalent sexism theory	9
When women embrace snow-sport adventures: unravelling the influence of memorable travel experiences on well-being	9
A societal perspective on nostalgia in satellite sports fandom: insights from the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions	9
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach	9
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory	9
Relationships between yoga and purpose in life among women: testing a moderated mediation model	8
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	8
Reimagining community festivals and events: critical and interdisciplinary perspectives	8
A ramp that leads to nothing: outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil	7
The community ‘living room’ – social interactions and social capital in a community activity in the Netherlands	7
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience	7
Reflections on conducting research in uncertain times	7
CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity	7
The effect of self-expression on the empowerment of Iranian women adventure travellers	7
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	7
The Influence of Leisure on the Quality of Life of Refugees in Turkey	7
‘A wholly racialized world’: racial inequalities and peer review in leisure and tourism studies	6
Play it light: the role of gardens and gardening in the lives of latter-day urbanites	6
Ageing in the context of accompanying migration: a leisure stress coping perspective	6
The problematic nature of evaluating esports’ “genuineness” using traditional sports’ criteria: In-depth interviews with traditional sports and electronic sports journalists	6
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability	6
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness	6
Leisure experience and participation and its contribution to stress-related growth amid COVID-19 pandemic	6
Improving the local development: the stakeholders’ point of view on Italian railway tourism	6
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause	6
Power of good old days: how leisure nostalgia influences work engagement, task performance, and subjective well-being	6
Tough Broad: from boogie boarding to wing walking—how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age	5
Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico	5
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing	5
The battlefield of ballet schools: the commodification of dance education in China	5
Skateboard video: archiving the city from below	5
Correction	5
Exploring oppositionality and support of Counter-Strike redditors for the World ESports Association	5
Sustainable Village Project: the importance of leisure and public space for collective organization	5
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations	5
Parents perceptions of online physical activity and leisure with early years children during Covid-19 and beyond	5
Leveraging disability sport events: impacts, promises, and possibilities	5
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey	5
The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats	5
Bobbing in the park: wild swimming, conviviality and belonging	5
Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review	5
Virtual reality tourism and technology acceptance: a disability perspective	5

Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces	5
Māori households assembling precarious leisure	4
What does leisure have to do with mental health – arts, creative and leisure practices and living with mental distress	4
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants	4
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?	4
Understanding tourists’ experiences at war heritage sites in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam: a netnographic analysis of TripAdvisor reviews	4
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport	4
Leisure activity participation among older adults: a review	4
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting	4
Sport and physical activity in catastrophic environments	4
Warsaw small and medium-sized public urban green spaces as a response to short-time leisure needs of local residents and passers-by	4
Leisure-time physical activity and transitions into and through parenthood	4
Leisure and trauma-informed practice	4
Tracing Ice tracks: ice sports and socio-cultural transformations in modern China (1883-1945)	4
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health	4
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view	4
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting	4
Being “outdoors” in a new country: associations between immigrant characteristics, outdoor recreation activities, and settlement satisfaction in Canada	4
The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response	4
How technology-enhanced experience affects festival host destination attitude and word-of-mouth? Evidence from Taiwan	4
Cohesion in cycling neo-tribes: a netnographic approach	4
National football leagues as a source of soft power	4
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model	4