OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport Management is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Sport Ecology: Conceptualizing an Emerging Subdiscipline Within Sport Management	93
Measuring Externalities: The Imperative Next Step to Sustainability Assessment in Sport	54
Transformative Sport Service Research: Linking Sport Services With Well-Being	28
Organizational Capacity and Performance of Community Sport Clubs	27
The Role of Self-Brand Connection on the Relationship Between Athlete Brand Image and Fan Outcomes	23
Temporal Variations in the Relationship Between Legacies and Support: A Longitudinal Case Study in Rio 2016 Olympic Games	22
Developing Student-Athlete School Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being: The Effects of Academic Psychological Capital and Engagement	22
Big Data and Analytics in Sport Management	21
The Strength of Fan Ties: Emotional Support in Sport Fan Egocentric Networks	20
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	20
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	17
Sport Experience Design: Wearable Fitness Technology in the Health and Fitness Industry	16
The Psychological Meaning of Team Among Fans of Women’s Sport	16
Connecting Customer Knowledge Management and Intention to Use Sport Services Through Psychological Involvement, Commitment, and Customer Perceived Value	15
Elite Athlete Well-Being: The Role of Socioeconomic Factors and Comparisons With the Resident Population	15
Do Consumer Perceptions of Tanking Impact Attendance at National Basketball Association Games? A Sentiment Analysis Approach	14
An Institutional Framework for Governance Convergence in Sport: The Case of India	14
Is Reflexivity Enough? Addressing Reflexive Embodiment, Power, and Whiteness in Sport Management Research	14
Understanding Season Ticket Holder Attendance Decisions	14
Customer Engagement in Sport: An Updated Review and Research Agenda	14
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	14
The Attention Economy and Esports: An Econometric Analysis of Twitch Viewership	13
Predicting Fan Behavior Through Egocentric Network Analysis: Examining Season-Ticket Holder Renewal	12
The Causal Effect of Voluntary Roles in Sport on Subjective Well-Being in European Countries	12
The Volunteer Experience in a Para-Sport Event: An Autoethnography	12

Parent Well-Being Through Community Youth Sport: An Autoethnography of “Sideline” Participation	12
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	11
Critical Discourse Analysis as Theory, Methodology, and Analyses in Sport Management Studies	11
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	11
Large-Scale Sport Events and Resident Well-Being: Examining PERMA and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games	11
Brand New: A Longitudinal Investigation of Brand Associations as Drivers of Team Identity Among Fans of a New Sport Team	11
Women and Leadership Development in Australian Sport Organizations	11
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	11
Remapping the Sport Brandscape: A Structured Review and Future Direction for Sport Brand Research	10
LGBT Diversity and Inclusion, Community Characteristics, and Success	9
Addressing Gender Inequity in Sport Through Women’s Invisible Labor	9
The Effect of Digital Integrated Marketing Communications on Not-for-Profit Sport Consumption Behaviors	9
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	9
Analyzing Collaborations Involving Nonprofit Youth Sport Organizations: A Resource-Dependency Perspective	8
Effects of Relative Size and Homogeneity of Sports Fan Community on Potential Fans’ Support Intentions	8
Examining Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Passage of Youth Sport Concussion Legislation	8
“Count the Ways That It Impacts Your Life”: New Parenthood and Sport Fandom	8
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	8
Frustrated Customers: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Yelp Reviews	8
Betting Market Outcomes and NBA Television Viewership	7
Building Inclusive Communities in Youth Sport for Lesbian-Parented Families	7
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	7
Stigma Consciousness and Work Outcomes of Senior Woman Administrators: The Role of Workplace Incivility	7
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	7
Leveraging Events to Develop Collaborative Partnerships: Examining the Formation and Collaborative Dynamics of the Ontario Parasport Legacy Group	7
Predicting Season Ticket Holder Retention Using Rich Behavioral Data	7
“No Idea is a Bad Idea”: Exploring the Nature of Design Thinking Alignment in an Australian Sport Organization	6
Understanding the Meaning of Representation in a Deliberative Democratic Governance System	6
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	6
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	6
Dealing With Statistical Significance in Big Data: The Social Media Value of Game Outcomes in Professional Football	6
Row! Row! Row Your Boat! Transformative Value Cocreation and Codestruction in Elite and Olympic Rowers	6
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	6
The Initial Intentions for Social Leveraging of a Mega Sport Event Among Stakeholders of a Newly Formed Interorganizational Relationship	6
Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States	6
“Germany Crashes Out of World Cup”: A Mixed-Method Study on the Effects of Crisis Communication on Facebook	6
Running Through Travel Career Progression: Social Worlds and Active Sport Tourism	6
Extending the Kaleidoscope Career Model: Understanding Career Needs of Midcareer Elite Head Coaches	5
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	5
The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper	5
The Role of Team Identification on the Sponsorship Articulation–Fit Relationship	5
Ownership in European Soccer, Financial Fair Play, and Performance in UEFA’s 2006–2018 Champions League Tournaments	5
Charting Their Own Path: Using Life Course Theory to Explore the Careers of Gay Men Working in Sport	5
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	4
The Effects of the 2018 Commonwealth Games Service Environment on Athlete Satisfaction and Performance: A Transformative Service Research Approach	4
How League and Community Affect Corporate Philanthropy in Professional Sport: A Multiple Field Embeddedness Perspective	4
Sporting Events and the Derived Demand for Hotels: Evidence From Southeastern Conference Football Games	4
“It’s Like Being on an Island by Yourself”: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Administrators’ Perceptions of Barriers to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Intercollegiate Athletics	4
“If You Ain’t First, You’re Last!” Understanding Identity Threat, Team Identification, and Advertisement Messages When Your Favorite Team Loses	4
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	4

The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations	4
Building and Sustaining Organizational Capacity in Voluntary Sports Clubs: Findings From a Longitudinal Study	4
Who Are We Honoring? Extending the Ebony & Ivy Discussion to Include Sport Facilities	4
“Back in the Day, You Opened Your Mine and on You Went”: Extractives Industry Perspectives on Sport, Responsibility, and Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada	4
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	4
Man or Machine: Fantasy Football and Dehumanization of Professional Athletes	4
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	3
“Out of the Black, Into the Big Blue” on a Single Breath: Sport Event Value Co-Creation as Symbolic World-Making	3
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	3
Athlete Misconduct and Team Sponsor Stock Prices: The Role of Incident Type and Media Coverage	3
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	3
Navigating a White, Male Space: The Lived Experiences of Black, Female Ice Hockey Fans	3
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	3
Agency Theory and Principal–Agent Alignment Masks: An Examination of Penalties in the National Football League	3
Leveraging Event Participation Benefits Beyond the Running Course: Deciphering the Motivational Basis of Event Satisfaction	3
Interaction of Communication From the Sport Organization, Media, and Public Perspectives: How Does Messaging Relate and Differ?	3
Solving the Athleisure Myth: A Means-End Chain Analysis of Female Activewear Consumption	3
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	3
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	2
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	2
Refereeing as a Postathletic Career Option	2
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	2
Empirical Investigation of Sport Trademark Dilution Using Contingent Valuation Method	2
On the Road With Minor League Baseball Externalities	2
Subtexts of Research on Diversity in Sport Organizations: Queering Intersectional Perspectives	2
Toward a Better Understanding of Fair-Weather Fandom: Exploring the Role of Collective Narcissism in Basking in Reflected Glory and Cutting Off Reflected Failure	2
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	2
Fashion Versus Comfort: Exploring the Gendered Marketing Messages of Sport Team Licensed Merchandise	2
Dead Spaces: Sport Venues and Police Stops in a Major League, Upper Midwestern City in the United States	2
All the News That’s Fit to Print? How the Media Frames Professional Athlete Philanthropy	2
Increasing Human Capital of Coaches—An Investigation Into Individual and Organizational Factors	2
Privileging Practice in Sport Leadership: Applying Relational Reflexivity	2
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	2
What Are the Benefits of Hosting a Sporting Mega Event? Evidence From Industrial Firms in China	2
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	2
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	2
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	2
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	2
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	2
The Donors Supporting Charity Sport Event Participants: An Exploration of the Factors Driving Donations	2
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	2