OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Sport Management Quarterly is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	79
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	49
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	43
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	39
Climate risks in motorsport: setting boundary conditions in Formula 1	31
How do we measure sport employee grit? a multi-study examination of the nomological network and validity of the Employee Grit Scale-Sport Employees (EGS-SE)	26
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	26
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	25
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	22
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	22
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	21
Understanding cross-cultural interactions and diversity in professional sports organizations: the case of football and forced migration in Germany and Italy	21
Misogyny, misogynoir and violent online rhetoric against women and girls in sport: the case of Joey Barton	21
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	20
Examining the development of human rights strategies for large-scale sport events: the case of the United Bid for the FIFA Men’s World Cup 2026	17
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	17
Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations	16
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	16
Event leverage: a systematic literature review and new research agenda	15
How football Bundesliga matches affect traffic volume and carbon emissions	15
Agency and institutions in sport	15
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	15
‘We shouldn’t have to ask’: exploring the realities of minority ethnic women football spectators	14
Multi-club ownership and sporting success: myth, expectation, and evidence	14
‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	14

When calling and overwork climate collide: the effect on burnout and intention to change careers	14
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	13
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	13
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	13
Forecasting the future of sports media production: a Delphi study on the role of emerging technologies	13
Paying while playing: examining the influence of interaction with gamified elements in fantasy sports on in-app spending	13
Exploring shared experiences as citizen sport diplomats: a collaborative self-ethnography	12
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	12
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	12
Male homosociality and the overrepresentation of men as leaders in sport organizations	11
The effect of sport event participation on well-being: the role of running for charity	11
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	11
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	10
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	10
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	10
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	10
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	10
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	9
A monetary valuation of hosting a sport mega-event via residential real estate markets in small host communities: evidence from post-event analysis	9
Sport media has an audience measurement problem	8
Assessing the psychological pathways of esports events spectators: an application of service quality and its antecedents and consequences	8
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	8
A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia	8
Public attitudes toward athlete activism in sport: utilizing a multivariate list experiment to address social desirability bias in survey responses	8
Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds	8
Do consumers care about human brands?: A case study of using Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) to map two athletes’ engagements in social and political advocacy	8
Sport organizations under tension: dynamic capabilities and resilience building during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Media exposure and gendered participation: evidence on Olympic trickle-down effects in Korea	7
The legitimacy work of institutional disruption and maintenance: examining the rivalry between LIV golf and the professional golf association	7
Sociocultural processes and outcomes in the integration of a semi-professional women’s team into a professional men’s football club in Scandinavia	7
Women’s volleyball demand across different distribution channels	6
The relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and perceived organisational performance in professional sports organisations	6
Awards are career catalysts for young talents in association football	6
Governing the paradox of success in a hybrid supporter-owned professional football club	6
The Effect of Consumers' Self-Presentation on Luxury Sports Brand Consumption	6
Visual identity in digital sport fandom: a data-driven framework for identity transformation	6
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	6
Utilizing a theory of racialized organizations within sport management research and practice	6
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	6
Athletes as advocates: the role of parasocial interaction and fictional involvement in social media advocacy	6
The influence of perceived commercialization and authenticity on fan engagement: insights from men’s and women’s elite football leagues in Sweden	5
Watching football highlights on YouTube: the determinants of demand for short videos	5
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	5
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	5
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	5
Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships	5
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	5
Place branding through sport events: a systematic review and future directions	5
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
Host community salience loss across major sport event planning	5

Fan and fantasy: investigating the impact of fantasy sports on sports fan identity	4
Non-profit sports club volunteers: same, same, but different or one and the same?	4
Predicting transfer fees in professional European football before and during COVID-19 using machine learning	4
Managing the compliance of national federations: an examination of the strategies of international Olympic sports federations	4
Achieving gender equity: barriers and possibilities at board level in Swedish sport	4
Survival of fitness clubs: customer experience quality as a competitive resource	4
A new approach to understanding crisis communication in sport: a news media analysis of the European super league crisis	4
The personal is professional: exploring romantic relationship within the socioecology of an athlete brand	4
Professional league team naming and firm value: evidence from China	4
Beyond the game outcomes: how does ‘What If?’ influence fan engagement?	4
How differences between a sport club’s public portrayal of fan centricity and fans’ perceptions relate to fan engagement	4
Football volunteering and subjective well-being: a multi-country study of different voluntary roles and well-being measures	4
Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: a comparison of emerging sports and esports programs	4
Public funding for new football stadia: overinvestment and underutilisation in Hungarian football	3
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	3
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	3
COVID and the crisis: the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of elite athletes and their thoughts about career ending	3
Impacts of career commitment, gender, and job position on turnover intentions among athletic department employees: a moderated mediation model	3
Sport management: mission and meaning for a new era	3
Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions	3
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	3
Determining the price of football: an analysis of matchday ticket prices in the English Premier League	3
Mapping values in sport clubs: towards a conceptual typology for understanding the bettering of grassroots sport governance	3
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	3
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	3
Relationship quality in sport: a systematic quantitative literature review	3
Multi-club ownerships (MCOs): a critical analysis of transfer dynamics and sports integrity	3