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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	47
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	43
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	36
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	35
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	27
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	25
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	25
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	23
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	23
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	22
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	20
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	18
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	16
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	15
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	15
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	14
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	13
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	13
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	13
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	12
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	11
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	11
Services in Sport Management	11
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	10
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	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
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	9
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	9
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	8
The Business of Esports: The Wild Wild West on Fire	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	8
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	7
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	7
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	7
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	7
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	7
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	7
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	7
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	7
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	7
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	7
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	6
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6
Book Review of Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management	6
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	6
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	6
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	6
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	6
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	6
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	6
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	5
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	5
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	5
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	5
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	5
State-Level Politics and Bias Predict Transgender Athlete Bans	5
Rivalry in Sport: Understanding Fan Behavior and Organizations	5
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	4
Directions in Fandom and Spectatorship	4
The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence	4
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	4
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	4

The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
Leading Culture Change in Public Recreation	4
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	4
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	4
Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	4
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	4
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	4
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	4
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	3
The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships	3
Handbook on International Sports Law	3
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	3
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	3
Challenging Athletes’ “Social Description”: A Multistudy Qualitative Examination of Activist Identity Development Among U.S. Youth Athlete Activists	3
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sport Organizations	3
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	3
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	3
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	3
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	3
Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China	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
Competitive Position, Expectations, and Managerial Approaches to Risk in National Football League Football	2
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	2
The Digital World of Sport: The Impact of Emerging Media on Sports News, Information, and Journalism	2
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	2
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	2
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	2
University–Organization Collaboration in Sport for Development: Understanding Practitioners’ Perspectives and Experiences in Research and Evaluation Partnerships	2
How League and Community Affect Corporate Philanthropy in Professional Sport: A Multiple Field Embeddedness Perspective	2
How Transfer Behavior Impacts Consumer Perceptions and Intentions Toward College Athletes Who Pursue Name, Image, and/or Likeness Activities	2
Fan Socializing and BIRGing: The Impact of Trait Competitiveness on Fan Behaviors	2
Exploring Sport Employees’ Conceptualizations of Meaningful Work	2
The Influence of Personal Branding and Institutional Factors on the Name, Image, and Likeness Value of Collegiate Athletes’ Social Media Posts	2
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	2
Decolonizing Sport	2
Exploring the Perception of Division I Coaches and Administrators About International Collegiate Athlete Exclusion From Name, Image, and Likeness Opportunities	2
Motivations, Barriers, and Supports: An Examination of the Experiences of Women of Color Recreational Sport Coaches	2
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	2
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	2
Navigating a White, Male Space: The Lived Experiences of Black, Female Ice Hockey Fans	2
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	2
Mother-Coaches’ Experiences of Policy and Programs: “Whoever Wrote This Policy Doesn’t Understand What It Means to Be a Mom”	2
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	2