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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	65
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	34
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	25
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	24
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	24
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	24
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	22
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	21
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	20
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	20
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	19
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	18
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	17
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	17
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	16
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	15
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	15
Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	14
Services in Sport Management	13
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	12
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	12
From Survival to Thriving: Navigating Intersectional Identity and Community in Diasporic Women’s Sport Clubs	12
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	12
Who Bets, Why They Bet, and How They Bet: Segmenting College Students for Targeted Sports Betting Interventions	11
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	11

Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	10
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	10
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Approaches to the Formation of Individual Sport Fans’ Psychological Ownership and Its Impacts on Prosocial Behavior, Attendance Intention, and Psychological Well-B	10
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	10
Policy Reform and Organizational Change: A Multilevel Analysis of On-Ice Maltreatment Suspensions in Hockey Canada	10
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	10
Reimagining the Gendering of Sport	10
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	10
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	9
Environmental Legitimacy Strategies in New Sport Organizations	9
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	9
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	9
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	9
The Athlete Effect: Fame, Fans, and the Forces That Move Sport Markets	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
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	8
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
Speaking Equity, Enacting Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of White Women Leaders in College Sport	8
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	8
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	7
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	7
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	7
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	7
Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration	7
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	7
Community Politics and Division I Athletic Departments’ Gender Equity Practices	7
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	7
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	6
Building Bridges: Laurence Chalip’s Vision and the Future of Sport Management Scholarship	6
Handbook on Sport and Migration	6
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	6
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	6
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	6
Can Fandom Harm Sport Employee Well-Being?	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Equal Financial Benefits? Title IX Gender Discrimination Behavior in National Collegiate Athletic Association Programs	6
Luxury in Sport: Opulence, Prestige, and Influence in the Sport Industry	6
State-Level Politics and Bias Predict Transgender Athlete Bans	5
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	5
Consumer Split Identification: The Case of Sponsorship	5
Standing at a Cost: Consumer Perceptions of Athlete Activism Sacrifice, Support, and Authenticity	5
Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	5
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	5
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	5
Innovative Quantitative Approaches in Sport Management	5
Directions in Fandom and Spectatorship	5

O Captain, My Captain? Exploring the Dynamics of Leadership Changes	5
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
Running Toward Goals: A Longitudinal Study of Goal Achievement in Marathon Training	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
Packing the House: Caitlin Clark and Big Ten Women’s Basketball Attendance	4
Playing the Game, Self-Presentation, and Black Male College Athletes: A Critical Understanding of the Holistic Experience	4
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	4
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	4
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	4
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	4
The Impact of Organizational Capacity on Strategic Approaches to Membership Retention and Growth in Community Sport Organizations	3
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	3
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	3
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	3
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	3
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	3
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sport Organizations	3
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	3
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	3
Challenging Athletes’ “Social Description”: A Multistudy Qualitative Examination of Activist Identity Development Among U.S. Youth Athlete Activists	3
Gambling Research in Sport Management: A Scoping Review	3
Sport Management Is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Link: Exploring Reputation and Legitimacy of the Sport Management Academic Discipline From a Higher Education Administrator’s Perspective	3
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	3
“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	3
University–Organization Collaboration in Sport for Development: Understanding Practitioners’ Perspectives and Experiences in Research and Evaluation Partnerships	2
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	2
The Influence of Personal Branding and Institutional Factors on the Name, Image, and Likeness Value of Collegiate Athletes’ Social Media Posts	2
Exploring the Perception of Division I Coaches and Administrators About International Collegiate Athlete Exclusion From Name, Image, and Likeness Opportunities	2
Decolonizing Sport	2
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	2
Navigating a White, Male Space: The Lived Experiences of Black, Female Ice Hockey Fans	2
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	2
Handbook on International Sports Law	2
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	2
Building the Sport Management Discipline	2