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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-12-01 to 2023-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Sport Ecology: Conceptualizing an Emerging Subdiscipline Within Sport Management	82
Measuring Externalities: The Imperative Next Step to Sustainability Assessment in Sport	48
Sexism in Professional Sports: How Women Managers Experience and Survive Sport Organizational Culture	34
Organizational Capacity and Performance of Community Sport Clubs	25
Transformative Sport Service Research: Linking Sport Services With Well-Being	25
The Role of Self-Brand Connection on the Relationship Between Athlete Brand Image and Fan Outcomes	21
Temporal Variations in the Relationship Between Legacies and Support: A Longitudinal Case Study in Rio 2016 Olympic Games	21
Developing Student-Athlete School Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being: The Effects of Academic Psychological Capital and Engagement	21
The Strength of Fan Ties: Emotional Support in Sport Fan Egocentric Networks	19
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	18
Determinants of Attendance in Major League Soccer	18
Big Data and Analytics in Sport Management	16
Sport Experience Design: Wearable Fitness Technology in the Health and Fitness Industry	14
Team Identity, Supporter Club Identity, and Fan Relationships: A Brand Community Network Analysis of a Soccer Supporters Club	14
Is Reflexivity Enough? Addressing Reflexive Embodiment, Power, and Whiteness in Sport Management Research	14
The Psychological Meaning of Team Among Fans of Women’s Sport	14
The Volunteer Experience in a Para-Sport Event: An Autoethnography	13
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	13
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	13
An Institutional Framework for Governance Convergence in Sport: The Case of India	13
Elite Athlete Well-Being: The Role of Socioeconomic Factors and Comparisons With the Resident Population	13
Customer Engagement in Sport: An Updated Review and Research Agenda	12
Connecting Customer Knowledge Management and Intention to Use Sport Services Through Psychological Involvement, Commitment, and Customer Perceived Value	12
Parent Well-Being Through Community Youth Sport: An Autoethnography of “Sideline” Participation	12
The Attention Economy and Esports: An Econometric Analysis of Twitch Viewership	12

Understanding Season Ticket Holder Attendance Decisions	12
The Causal Effect of Voluntary Roles in Sport on Subjective Well-Being in European Countries	11
Brand New: A Longitudinal Investigation of Brand Associations as Drivers of Team Identity Among Fans of a New Sport Team	11
Enact, Discard, Transform: An Impact Agenda	11
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	11
Do Consumer Perceptions of Tanking Impact Attendance at National Basketball Association Games? A Sentiment Analysis Approach	11
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	10
Critical Discourse Analysis as Theory, Methodology, and Analyses in Sport Management Studies	10
Women and Leadership Development in Australian Sport Organizations	10
LGBT Diversity and Inclusion, Community Characteristics, and Success	9
Gender and Volunteering at the Special Olympics: Interrelationships Among Motivations, Commitment, and Social Capital	9
Large-Scale Sport Events and Resident Well-Being: Examining PERMA and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games	9
Predicting Fan Behavior Through Egocentric Network Analysis: Examining Season-Ticket Holder Renewal	9
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	9
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	8
Effects of Relative Size and Homogeneity of Sports Fan Community on Potential Fans’ Support Intentions	8
The Effect of Digital Integrated Marketing Communications on Not-for-Profit Sport Consumption Behaviors	8
Examining Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Passage of Youth Sport Concussion Legislation	7
Remapping the Sport Brandscape: A Structured Review and Future Direction for Sport Brand Research	7
Frustrated Customers: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Yelp Reviews	7
“Count the Ways That It Impacts Your Life”: New Parenthood and Sport Fandom	7
Betting Market Outcomes and NBA Television Viewership	7
Building Inclusive Communities in Youth Sport for Lesbian-Parented Families	7
Addressing Gender Inequity in Sport Through Women’s Invisible Labor	6
Row! Row! Row Your Boat! Transformative Value Cocreation and Codestruction in Elite and Olympic Rowers	6
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	6
Analyzing Collaborations Involving Nonprofit Youth Sport Organizations: A Resource-Dependency Perspective	6
Leveraging Events to Develop Collaborative Partnerships: Examining the Formation and Collaborative Dynamics of the Ontario Parasport Legacy Group	6
Running Through Travel Career Progression: Social Worlds and Active Sport Tourism	6
Coping as a Mediation Mechanism Between Severity of Spectator Dysfunctional Behavior and Revisit Intention: The Moderating Effects of Self-Construal in Sport Consumption	6
Stigma Consciousness and Work Outcomes of Senior Woman Administrators: The Role of Workplace Incivility	6
“Germany Crashes Out of World Cup”: A Mixed-Method Study on the Effects of Crisis Communication on Facebook	6
Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States	5
Predicting Season Ticket Holder Retention Using Rich Behavioral Data	5
The Role of Team Identification on the Sponsorship Articulation–Fit Relationship	5
The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper	5
“No Idea is a Bad Idea”: Exploring the Nature of Design Thinking Alignment in an Australian Sport Organization	5
Extending the Kaleidoscope Career Model: Understanding Career Needs of Midcareer Elite Head Coaches	5
Charting Their Own Path: Using Life Course Theory to Explore the Careers of Gay Men Working in Sport	5
Dealing With Statistical Significance in Big Data: The Social Media Value of Game Outcomes in Professional Football	5
Understanding the Meaning of Representation in a Deliberative Democratic Governance System	5
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	5
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	5
Sporting Events and the Derived Demand for Hotels: Evidence From Southeastern Conference Football Games	4
Man or Machine: Fantasy Football and Dehumanization of Professional Athletes	4
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	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
The Initial Intentions for Social Leveraging of a Mega Sport Event Among Stakeholders of a Newly Formed Interorganizational Relationship	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
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	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
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	4
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	3
Ownership in European Soccer, Financial Fair Play, and Performance in UEFA’s 2006–2018 Champions League Tournaments	3
Athlete Misconduct and Team Sponsor Stock Prices: The Role of Incident Type and Media Coverage	3
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	3
Solving the Athleisure Myth: A Means-End Chain Analysis of Female Activewear Consumption	3
Who Are We Honoring? Extending the Ebony & Ivy Discussion to Include Sport Facilities	3
Leveraging Event Participation Benefits Beyond the Running Course: Deciphering the Motivational Basis of Event Satisfaction	3
“If You Ain’t First, You’re Last!” Understanding Identity Threat, Team Identification, and Advertisement Messages When Your Favorite Team Loses	3
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	3
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	3
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	2
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	2
All the News That’s Fit to Print? How the Media Frames Professional Athlete Philanthropy	2
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	2
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	2
What Are the Benefits of Hosting a Sporting Mega Event? Evidence From Industrial Firms in China	2
A Contemporary Functional Form for NCAA Division I FBS Contributions: Internal and External Considerations	2
“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	2
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	2
Interaction of Communication From the Sport Organization, Media, and Public Perspectives: How Does Messaging Relate and Differ?	2
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	2
Privileging Practice in Sport Leadership: Applying Relational Reflexivity	2
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	2
Agency Theory and Principal–Agent Alignment Masks: An Examination of Penalties in the National Football League	2
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	2
Dead Spaces: Sport Venues and Police Stops in a Major League, Upper Midwestern City in the United States	2
“Out of the Black, Into the Big Blue” on a Single Breath: Sport Event Value Co-Creation as Symbolic World-Making	2
Empirical Investigation of Sport Trademark Dilution Using Contingent Valuation Method	2
The Donors Supporting Charity Sport Event Participants: An Exploration of the Factors Driving Donations	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
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