OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sport Management is 7. 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
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	24
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	24
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	24
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	22
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	21
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	20
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	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
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
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	12
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
Who Bets, Why They Bet, and How They Bet: Segmenting College Students for Targeted Sports Betting Interventions	11

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
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
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
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	9
Environmental Legitimacy Strategies in New Sport Organizations	9
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
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
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
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