OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sport Management Review is 4. 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
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	58
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	44
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	35
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda	32
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak	29
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	23
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	23
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks	21
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	20
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	20
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	18
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	17
New venue, same team, new problems? Crime patterns in an era of new venues and intra-metropolitan sport franchise migration	17
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity	17
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach	16
Organizational capacity, social innovation and organizational performance in sport for development and peace organizations	15
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	15
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots	14
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby	14
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup	13
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	13
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization	13
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	13
Growing yourself as a first-generation American football fan in China: a consumer socialization perspective	13
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	13

Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	13
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	13
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	13
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	13
“We’re starting to turn the page”: navigating stigma as a women’s sport employee	13
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members	12
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies	12
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	11
Underdogs in the game: how sport start-ups navigate collaboration with external actors	10
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport	9
Experience is all you need: a large language model application of fine-tuned GPT-3.5 and RoBERTa for aspect-based sentiment analysis of college football stadium reviews	9
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics	9
Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans	9
Winning with Altitude: Evidence from College Football	8
Collective leadership in nonprofit sport boards	7
Trust can move mountain (biking): a social network examination of the role of trust, communication and coopetition in youth sport	7
Investigating the drivers of pro-social connection infrastructure in community sport	7
Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	7
It’s all relative: examining the influence of social identity on sport-based youth development	7
Editorial: 25 ^th Anniversary Special Collection	7
Conditions and mechanisms of trust within boards of voluntary sport governing bodies	7
Environment as a vulnerability factor for doping: a qualitative examination of Indian track and field athletes’ hurdles to compete clean	6
A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport	6
Operational crisis communication management: a content analysis of FIFA’s communication during Covid-19	6
Legitimacy work of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study of Los Angeles and Atlanta	6
‘We exist because of them’: understanding the integration mechanisms and process of men’s and women’s football in China	6
Discursive delegitimisation of athlete activism: a study of the Australian football team	6
Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context	6
Mixed methods in sport management: A review and directions for future research	6
Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport	6
Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given”	6
Balancing recognition and novelty: exploring the brand architecture of integrated football clubs in the English Women’s Super League	6
Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes	6
The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes	5
Understanding toxic behaviors in the esports environment: an integrative review and future research directions	5
Leveraging sport events for the promotion of human rights in host communities: diffusion of anti-trafficking campaigns at Super Bowl LIV	5
Perceived event impacts of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on residents’ eudaimonic well-being: a longitudinal study of within-person changes and relationships	5
Strategic ambitions and operational realities: a strategic sensemaking approach to community sport and the 2026 FIFA World Cup	5
Making or breaking news? Examining agenda-setting and co-promotion as a strategic sport media practice	5
Queering inclusion: the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand	5
“We’re semi-intentional”: exploring the internal administration of strategic marketing in sport-based youth development organizations	5
“You have to dance to our tune, but we won’t tell you the tune”: exploring resource dependency and agency control in sport for development	4
Operational quality in youth sport clubs: towards a conceptual model	4
How does gender diversity impact board performance? Insights from Australian sport	4
The impact of socioeconomic background on the timing of long-term contracts in Major League Baseball	4
Continuing or withdrawing from endurance sport events under environmental uncertainty: athletes’ decision-making	4
Three decades of strategic planning in Australian national sport organisations: where did we start and where are we now?	4
Looking beyond performance: understanding service quality through the importance-performance analysis	4
The role of brokerage in green partnership formation in professional sport	4
Resource deprivation, decision stakes, and the selection of foreign players in the NBA draft	4

Toward a better understanding of core and peripheral market demand for women’s spectator sports: An importance-performance map analysis approach based on gender	4
Sport fandom and physical health orientation: the roles of group norms and team identification	4
Long-distance brand relationship marketing in sport: determining factors for satellite fans’ share of wallet and time	4
Shared leadership and employee outcomes in sport for development and peace (SDP): the mediating role of meaningful work	4