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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	56
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	33
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	23
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	23
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	22
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	20
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	19
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	19
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	19
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	18
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	18
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	17
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	15
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	15
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	15
Services in Sport Management	14
Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	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	12
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	11
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	11
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	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
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	9
Policy Reform and Organizational Change: A Multilevel Analysis of On-Ice Maltreatment Suspensions in Hockey Canada	9
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	9
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	9
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	9
Reimagining the Gendering of Sport	9
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	9
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	9
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	8
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	8
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	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	7
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	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
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	7
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	7
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
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	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
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	6
Equal Financial Benefits? Title IX Gender Discrimination Behavior in National Collegiate Athletic Association Programs	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6
The Athlete Effect: Fame, Fans, and the Forces That Move Sport Markets	6
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	6
Building Bridges: Laurence Chalip’s Vision and the Future of Sport Management Scholarship	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	6
Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration	6
Community Politics and Division I Athletic Departments’ Gender Equity Practices	6