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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	48
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	46
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	40
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	40
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	32
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	27
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	26
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	26
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	24
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	23
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	18
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	17
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	16
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	16
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	16
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	15
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	14
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	14
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	14
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	14
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	11
Services in Sport Management	11
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	11
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	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

Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	10
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	10
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	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
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	8
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	8
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	8
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	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
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	7
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	7
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	7
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	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
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	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
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
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	6
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6