OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sport Management is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	37
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	36
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	31
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	26
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	25
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	23
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	23
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	23
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	20
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	18
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	16
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	16
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	15
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	14
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	14
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	13
Services in Sport Management	13
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	13
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	13
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	13
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	11
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	10
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	10

Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	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	9
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	9
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	9
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
The Business of Esports: The Wild Wild West on Fire	8
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	8
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	7
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	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
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	7
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	7
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	7
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	7
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	7
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	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
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	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
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	6
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	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
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6