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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil	49
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience	46
Making sense of the intersubjective structure of homeworld/alienworld to examine the lifeworld of leisure volunteers during Covid 19	43
A critical review of multispecies research design in tourism and leisure research	34
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches	33
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats	31
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces	30
Leaving pets at home while travelling: AI usage in pet care, emotions, and tourist experiences	28
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women	26
Leisure and self-care for Dalit women in India	26
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness	26
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations	23
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	23
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause	22
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing	22
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance	21
“The climate crisis is violence:” sexual and gender-based violence and bicycles for mobility justice and development in Nicaragua ¹	18
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places	18
‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy	18
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns	17
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India	17
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?	17
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model	17
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands	17
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research	17

The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response	17
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’	16
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting	14
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport	14
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure	13
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants	13
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival	12
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure	12
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers	11
Digital sovereignty and leisure: Bluesky as an alternative to X’s suspension in Brazil	11
A new theory for a new leisure class: violent and verdant: systemic injustice in public parks in the US	11
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey	11
City of courts: excavating the future in West Los Angeles	11
Routledge handbook of mobile technology, social media and the outdoors	11
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues	10
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective	10
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children	10
Mountain biking as a prism: a review of ‘mountain biking, culture and society’	10
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach	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
The end of the trail: discontinuing a community hiking programme	10
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children	9
Inclusion and equity in outdoor leisure: whose body belongs?	9
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury	9
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation	9
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy	9
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure	9
A case study exploring gender and leisure at a Community men’s shed in the U.S	9
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram	9
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance	9
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour	9
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players	8
Understanding human capacity and challenges for the transfer of community sport assets	8
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies	8
Skateboarding, Power and Change	8
Enhancing age-friendly cities and communities through culturally responsive leisure: recommendations from older Black lesbians	8
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices	8
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction	8
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory	8
Slime bikes? The polluted leisure of micromobility hire schemes in London	8
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres	8
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn	8
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals	8
‘Why is generation Z crazy about leisure?’ Understanding leisure motivations among South Korean generation Z: a Q methodology study	8
Effect of performance on social identification in serious leisure activities: two studies of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers	8
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey	7
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society	7
Visitor and spatial heterogeneity in the uses of urban parks: evidence from mobile signaling data	7
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’	7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	7

Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league	7
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers	7
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability	7
Aesthetic capital as a work strategy among precarious migrant coaches in China’s leisure industry	7
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China	7
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations	6
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces	6
The gamified life: corporate gamification, simulation of play, and the reappropriation of leisure	6
Becoming-with in animal leisure: working dog search training as human and nonhuman intra-actions	6
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred	6
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance	6
Abandoning legacy: towards conceptual clarity and better outcomes in mega-events research	6
Paradigm transformation, practical applications, and future prospects of leisure studies based on agent-based modeling	6
Sport, leadership, and social inclusion	6
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory	6
Finding the right balance: youths’ perspectives on parental involvement in dance	6
Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review	6
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting	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
From serious leisure to passionate pastime: expanding the conceptual landscape	6
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power	6
Evolution of leisure patterns and their relationship with life satisfaction in a highly ageing context	6
Exploring the lived experience associated with fan-made goods: a serious leisure perspective	6
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view	6
Turkish recreation history: those who do not know their past cannot shape the future!	5
Body, space, and time in virtual reality leisure experience: a phenomenological inquiry	5
‘Football was the key’: the role of sports in facilitating migrants’ belonging and inclusion in Poland	5
The work spouse: a hidden influence agent in personal and household leisure decision-making	5
Does digital leisure relate to subjective well-being in later life? Examining roles of enjoyment, social support, and capitalisation	5
Leveraging cultural eventscape design experience to realise women empowerment: a social entrepreneurship perspective	5
A cross-national study of the relationships among leisure participation, basic psychological needs satisfaction in leisure, and global life satisfaction	5
Higher recreation specialisation is related to higher media engagement but not to reduced outdoor activity in birders	5
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment	5
Mahjong and health: a public health perspective	5
Consumer engagement on social media in the sport context: a scoping review	5
‘My mum just wants me out of the house’: the leisure lifestyles of white-working class adolescents	5
Navigating grief: an autoethnographic tale of open water swimming and loss	5
An exploration of physical activity, migrant women and leisure experiences	5
Leisure and everyday life with dementia	5
Gender, sport and society: an introduction	5
Armchair travel through video games: stories from elsewheres and elsewhens	5
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games	5
”I felt there was a big chunk taken out of my life”: COVID-19 and older adults’ library-based magazine leisure reading	5
Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India	5
Neoliberal subjectivities in leisure and sport: a study of the autobiographies of Joshua Sundquist, Lance Armstrong and Yuvraj Singh	5
Effects of physical–based serious and casual leisure activities on prisoners in Türkiye: a grounded theory study	5
The dimensions of the sex as leisure view and their links to young adults’ sexual attitudes and comfort with sexuality	5
Exploring the experience of natural green space among South Asian Muslim people in the UK	5
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences	5
‘Even if the hills are old, they can still be green’. Ageing Mexican- mestiza women’s functional adventure bodies in the outdoors	5
The ‘dark’ dimensions of grey space in freestyle skateboarding	5
The lasting effect of childhood circus memories: nostalgia and guilt	5