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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	66
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	56
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	47
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	44
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	38
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	34
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	33
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	29
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	27
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	23
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	21
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	21
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	20
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	19
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	19
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	18
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	16
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	16
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	16
Services in Sport Management	15
Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	15
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	14
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	14
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	13
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	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	12
Policy Reform and Organizational Change: A Multilevel Analysis of On-Ice Maltreatment Suspensions in Hockey Canada	11
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	11
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	11
Reimagining the Gendering of Sport	10
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	10
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	9
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	9
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	9
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	9
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	9
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	9
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	9
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	8
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	8
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	8
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	7
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
Speaking Equity, Enacting Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of White Women Leaders in College Sport	7
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	7
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	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