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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pondering everyday life: coordination, continuity, and comparison	36
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience	31
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause	28
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment	25
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil	25
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing	23
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches	22
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?	22
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness	21
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats	20
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	19
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations	18
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women	18
Skateboard video: archiving the city from below	16
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces	16
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India	15
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns	15
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model	14
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places	14
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’	14
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research	14
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure	13
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance	13
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting	13
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands	13

The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response	13
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants	12
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?	12
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport	12
‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy	12
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure	12
Doom-mongers beware: an analysis of the health of leisure studies	11
‘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	11
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival	11
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey	11
Of companionship, curfew, and conflict: multispecies leisure in the age of COVID	10
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach	10
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective	9
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children	9
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation	9
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers	9
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety	9
City of courts: excavating the future in West Los Angeles	9
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues	8
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape	8
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram	8
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players	8
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour	8
Mountain biking as a prism: a review of ‘mountain biking, culture and society’	8
Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events by Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, and	8
Analysing family conversations and interactions during visits to Parque das Aves (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil) from children’s perspective	8
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure	8
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy	8
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children	8
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals	8
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices	8
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory	7
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people	7
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance	7
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies	7
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn	7
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction	7
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury	7
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’	6
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres	6
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability	6
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory	6
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league	6
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach	6
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces	6
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	6
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers	6
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society	6
Aesthetic capital as a work strategy among precarious migrant coaches in China’s leisure industry	6

Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	6
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China	6
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey	5
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance	5
Gender, sport and society: an introduction	5
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations	5
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences	5
The serious leisure perspective – a synthesis	5
From serious leisure to passionate pastime: expanding the conceptual landscape	5
Musician emotional wellbeing during the pandemic: assessing the impact of external factors, positive life outlook and socio-demographics	5
Leveraging cultural eventscape design experience to realise women empowerment: a social entrepreneurship perspective	5
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view	5
The work spouse: a hidden influence agent in personal and household leisure decision-making	5
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power	5
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred	5
Obstacles and possibilities in archival research: archives as a data source for leisure scholars in lockdown	5
‘Roleplaying as two straight bros going to a game’: LGBTQ2S+ spectators’ experiences at NHL arenas	5
Does digital leisure relate to subjective well-being in later life? Examining roles of enjoyment, social support, and capitalisation	5
Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review	5
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting	5