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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	62
Examining the career dynamics of elite football referees: a unique identification profile	34
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	30
Managing mental health: athlete help-seeking	29
Breaking the glass monitor: examining the underrepresentation of women in esports environments	29
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	27
Anti-doping in China: an analysis of the policy implementation processes through stakeholders’ perspectives	26
Watching sports on Twitch? A study of factors influencing continuance intentions to watch Thursday Night Football co-streaming	25
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda	23
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak	23
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	22
Sport for social cohesion: exploring aims and complexities	22
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	22
Sensemaking of novelty: the dynamic nature of integrating esports within a traditional sport organization	20
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport	19
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	19
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	18
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
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	15
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory	15
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	14
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	14
Development and transference of intentional self-regulation through a sport-based youth development program	13
Antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement in sport for development	13

The novelty effect and on-field team performance in new sports facilities: the case of the Canadian Football League	12
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	12
Strengthening referees’ psychological well-being through engagement and authenticity	11
Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents	11
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby	11
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	10
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	10
Tensions and opportunities in researching social change in sport management	9
An exploration of charity sport event donor perceptions of online peer-to-peer fundraising mechanisms	9
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	9
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	8
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies	8
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	8
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	8
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	8
Urban sprawl and leisure time physical activity	8
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport	7
Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans	7
We are a team of leaders: practicing leadership in professional sport	7
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	7
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members	7
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	7
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics	7
Sport spectator adoption of technological innovations: a behavioral reasoning analysis of fan experience apps	6
Leading for multidimensional sport employee well-being: the role of servant leadership and teamwork	6
No name, no logo, no problem?: Examining early fan connections to NHL Seattle	6
Conditions and mechanisms of trust within boards of voluntary sport governing bodies	6
Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport	6
Collective leadership in nonprofit sport boards	6
Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	6
Editorial: 25 ^th Anniversary Special Collection	6
The effect of sport team reputation on team attachment and community attachment: a comparison of fans, local residents, and sponsors	6
Leveraging sport events for the promotion of human rights in host communities: diffusion of anti-trafficking campaigns at Super Bowl LIV	5
The impact of sport organization employees’ justice perceptions on organizational citizenship and dysfunctional behavior: the affect-based model	5
A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport	5
Operational crisis communication management: a content analysis of FIFA’s communication during Covid-19	5
Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes	5
Planning and implementation of event leveraging strategy: China’s legacy pledge to motivate 300 million people to be involved in winter sport	5
It’s all relative: examining the influence of social identity on sport-based youth development	5
Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given”	5
Mixed methods in sport management: A review and directions for future research	5
Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context	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
Environment as a vulnerability factor for doping: a qualitative examination of Indian track and field athletes’ hurdles to compete clean	5
Well-being of sport club members: the role of pro-environmental behavior in sport and clubs’ environmental quality	5
The organizational identification and well-being framework: theorizing about how sport organizations contribute to crisis response and recovery	5
Queering inclusion: the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
Continuing or withdrawing from endurance sport events under environmental uncertainty: athletes’ decision-making	4
The role and performance of supporter directors: A social exchange theory perspective	4
Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events	4

Exploring tanking strategies in the NBA: an empirical analysis of resting healthy players	4
The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes	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
Exploring the conditions for strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	4