OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sport Management Review is 5. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Viewing sports online together? Psychological consequences on social live streaming service usage	68
Reviewing evidence of LGBTQ+ discrimination and exclusion in sport	61
Creating sense of presence in a virtual reality experience: Impact on neurophysiological arousal and attitude towards a winter sport	59
From isomorphism to institutional work: advancing institutional theory in sport management research	48
It is time to consider athletes’ well-being and performance satisfaction: The roles of authentic leadership and psychological capital	34
An exploration of the distractions inherent to social media use among athletes	30
Managing parasport: An investigation of sport policy factors and stakeholders influencing para-athletes’ career pathways	30
Antecedents and outcomes of social innovation: A global study of sport for development and peace organizations	29
Examining sport marketing through a rainbow lens	28
A community capacity building approach to sport-based youth development	28
Understanding sport event volunteers’ continuance intention: An environmental psychology approach	26
Sport-for-development: A comprehensive analysis of theoretical and conceptual advancements	25
Design archetype utility for understanding and analyzing the governance of contemporary national sport organizations	23
Watching sports on Twitch? A study of factors influencing continuance intentions to watch Thursday Night Football co-streaming	23
Breaking the glass monitor: examining the underrepresentation of women in esports environments	23
Antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement in sport for development	22
The Role of Consumer Engagement in Behavioral Loyalty through Value Co-Creation in Fitness Clubs	22
Examining the factors influencing organizational creativity in professional sport organizations	20
Psychological processes connecting team identification and social well-being for middle-aged and older adults: moderated mediation of subjective and objective on-field performance	19
There is no nil in NIL: examining the social media value of student-athletes’ names, images, and likeness	19
Understanding the impact of radical change on the effectiveness of national-level sport organizations: A multi-stakeholder perspective	18
Law, policy, and the participation of transgender athletes in the United States	18
Understanding complexity and dynamics in the career development of eSports athletes	18
Sport event sponsorship management from the sponsee’s perspective	18
Stimulating the adoption of green practices by professional football organisations: a focus on stakeholders’ pressures and expected benefits	17

The organizational identification and well-being framework: theorizing about how sport organizations contribute to crisis response and recovery	17
The rainbow connection: a scoping review and introduction of a scholarly exchange on LGBTQ+ experiences in sport management	17
Well-being of sport club members: the role of pro-environmental behavior in sport and clubs’ environmental quality	17
Examining the relationship for sport motives, relationship quality, and sport consumption intention	16
Women’s professional sport leagues: a systematic review and future directions for research	16
Sport spectator adoption of technological innovations: a behavioral reasoning analysis of fan experience apps	16
Volunteer selection at a major sport event: A strategic Human Resource Management approach	16
The impact of unlearning context on organizational performance through knowledge management: A case of community sport clubs in Iran	16
Sport for social cohesion: exploring aims and complexities	15
National Football League head coach race, performance, retention, and dismissal	15
Sensemaking of novelty: the dynamic nature of integrating esports within a traditional sport organization	14
Strategic management in eSports – a systematic review of the literature	14
“The poor cousin of inclusion”: Australian Sporting Organisations and LGBT+ diversity and inclusion	13
The role of mindfulness and occupational stress in the goal orientations of development and winning	13
Understanding the effects of different types of meaningful sports consumption on sports consumers’ emotions, motivations, and behavioral intentions	13
Strengthening referees’ psychological well-being through engagement and authenticity	13
Tip of the iceberg? An international investigation of fraud in community sport	13
Managing Sport for Development: An Investigation of Tensions and Paradox	12
Disability inclusion in beach precincts: beach for all abilities – a community development approach through a social relational model of disability lens	12
Colliding mandates of social enterprises: exploring the financial strategies, environment, and social-market tensions of bicycles-for-development organizations	12
Rethinking segmentation within the psychological continuum model using Bayesian analysis	12
Conceptualization of switching costs in fitness centers: a higher-order reflective-formative model	12
Safeguarding culture: towards a new approach to preventing child maltreatment in sport	11
Determinants of non-profit sports clubs’ perceived competition from commercial sports providers	10
Sport diplomacy: an integrative review	10
Doing hybrid management work in elite sport: the case of a head coach in top-level rugby union	10
The role of advocacy organisations for ethical mega sport events	10
Examining Minor League Baseball Spectator Nostalgia: A Neuroscience Perspective	10
“Two heads are better than one”: A continuum of social change in sport management	10
Establishing a professional Rugby Union Football League in the USA: Managing institutional pluralism in sport entrepreneurship	10
A big data analysis of social media coverage of athlete protests	9
A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport	9
Examining the career dynamics of elite football referees: a unique identification profile	9
The role and performance of supporter directors: A social exchange theory perspective	9
Money matters: The impact of prize money on doping behaviour	9
Determinants of support and participation in a major sport event referendum	9
Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents	9
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	9
“So begins the demise of #Superman from Metropolis”: Consumers’ Twitter reactions to an athlete’s transgression	9
Tensions and opportunities in researching social change in sport management	8
The novelty effect and on-field team performance in new sports facilities: the case of the Canadian Football League	8
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	8
Strong intentions but diminished impact: Following up with former participants in a sport for development and peace setting	8
Conscious capitalism and sport: Exploring higher purpose in a professional sport organization	8
Spectator emotions in predicting psychological vigor: emotional meta experience and affect valuation perspectives	8
Factors influencing acceptance of transgender athletes	8
The effect of sport team reputation on team attachment and community attachment: a comparison of fans, local residents, and sponsors	7
Leader prototypicality in sport: The implicit leadership theories of women and men entering sport management careers	7
The conceptualization of racial tasking: Uncovering the (un)intended consequences	7
Hidden agenda in sport sponsorship – The influence of managers’ personal objectives on sport sponsorship decisions	7

The effect of race on lateral moves to coach central positions	7
Exploring the relationship between social class and sport event volunteering	7
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	7
Predicting adventure seeking of young adults: The role of risk, innovativeness and status consumption	7
Exploring the conditions for strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	7
Toward a better understanding of core and peripheral market demand for women’s spectator sports: An importance-performance map analysis approach based on gender	7
Power and rent-seeking on boards: a case study of national sport federations in India	7
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport	7
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda	6
Anti-doping in China: an analysis of the policy implementation processes through stakeholders’ perspectives	6
Development of a national sport integrity system	6
Development and transference of intentional self-regulation through a sport-based youth development program	6
“This is how I want us to think”: Introducing a design thinking activity into the practice of a sport organisation	6
Identity regulation in the North American field of men’s professional ice hockey: An examination of organizational control and preparation for athletic career retirement	6
Leading for multidimensional sport employee well-being: the role of servant leadership and teamwork	6
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	6
Is “school sport” associated with school belongingness? Testing the influence of school sport policy	6
Perceptions of the role of traditional and social media in communicating corruption	6
Applying intergroup contact theory to sport-for-development	6
Planning and implementation of event leveraging strategy: China’s legacy pledge to motivate 300 million people to be involved in winter sport	6
“I’m a completely different person now”: Extraordinary experiences and personal transformations in sport	5
High performance sport programs and emplaced performance capital in elite athletes from developing nations	5
Strategic thinking and planning behind the development of a sporting event portfolio: the case of Shanghai	5
The influence of team-member exchange on turnover intention among student-athletes: the mediating role of interpersonal self-efficacy and the moderating role of seniority	5
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory	5
Community marathon event participation and quality of life	5
Identified, but not identical: exploring the influence of collective narcissism in team identification	5
A network perspective on cause-related marketing collaborations in professional sport	5
Investigating sport league sponsor retention: Results from a semi-parametric hazard model	5