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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender-specific impact of age diversity on the performance of small teams: empirical evidence from professional biathlon relays	48
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	45
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	45
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	39
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	36
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	33
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	29
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	28
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	27
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	26
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	24
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	21
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	21
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	20
You’ll never want to watch alone: the effect of displaying in-stadium social atmospherics on media consumers’ responses to new sport leagues across different types of media	19
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	18
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	17
Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations	16
Examining the relationships between brand knowledge, brand responses and brand resonance in sports leagues within the scope of consumer-based brand equity	16
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	14
Event leverage: a systematic literature review and new research agenda	14
‘We shouldn’t have to ask’: exploring the realities of minority ethnic women football spectators	13
‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	13
Facilitating sporting and non-sporting career goals of elite athletes through mentoring programmes	13
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	13

Agency and institutions in sport	13
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	12
When calling and overwork climate collide: the effect on burnout and intention to change careers	12
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	12
Paying while playing: examining the influence of interaction with gamified elements in fantasy sports on in-app spending	12
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	11
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	11
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	11
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	11
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	11
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	10
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	10
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	10
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	10
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	10
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	10
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	10
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	9
Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds	9
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	9
A monetary valuation of hosting a sport mega-event via residential real estate markets in small host communities: evidence from post-event analysis	8
Sport organizations under tension: dynamic capabilities and resilience building during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Assessing the psychological pathways of esports events spectators: an application of service quality and its antecedents and consequences	8
A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia	8
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	8
The legitimacy work of institutional disruption and maintenance: examining the rivalry between LIV golf and the professional golf association	8
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	8
Sport media has an audience measurement problem	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
From utilitarianism and neoclassical sport management to a new geopolitical economy of sport	7
Public attitudes toward athlete activism in sport: utilizing a multivariate list experiment to address social desirability bias in survey responses	7
Governing the paradox of success in a hybrid supporter-owned professional football club	7
Utilizing a theory of racialized organizations within sport management research and practice	7
Women’s volleyball demand across different distribution channels	6
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	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
The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance	6
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	6
The social value of co-hosting: rethinking the management of sports events	5
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	5
Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships	5
Host community salience loss across major sport event planning	5
Survival of fitness clubs: customer experience quality as a competitive resource	5
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	5
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	5
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	5
Industry hierarchy in team sport industries, team tactics and competitive advantage: the empty goal option in league handball	5
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	5

Processes of political, cultural, and social fragmentation: changes in the macro-environment of sport policy and management: c.1980–c.2022	4
Non-profit sports club volunteers: same, same, but different or one and the same?	4
Football volunteering and subjective well-being: a multi-country study of different voluntary roles and well-being measures	4
Fan and fantasy: investigating the impact of fantasy sports on sports fan identity	4
Achieving gender equity: barriers and possibilities at board level in Swedish sport	4
Saturday in the stadium: on higher attendance on Saturdays in Norwegian Eliteserien soccer league	4
Toward an enduring football economy: a business model taxonomy for Europe's professional football clubs	4
Naming the ghost of capitalism in sport management	4
National sport organization governance design archetypes for the twenty-first century	4
Predicting transfer fees in professional European football before and during COVID-19 using machine learning	4
The personal is professional: exploring romantic relationship within the socioecology of an athlete brand	4
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing	3
Managing the compliance of national federations: an examination of the strategies of international Olympic sports federations	3
A re-inquiry of the emotion spillover effect using psychophysiological approaches: how game outcome and process influence cognitive processing of TV commercial	3
No crowd, no roar, no home advantage: evidence from ice hockey	3
Relationship quality in sport: a systematic quantitative literature review	3
Impacts of career commitment, gender, and job position on turnover intentions among athletic department employees: a moderated mediation model	3
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	3
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	3
Multi-club ownerships (MCOs): a critical analysis of transfer dynamics and sports integrity	3
Sport management: mission and meaning for a new era	3
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	3
Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions	3
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	3
Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: a comparison of emerging sports and esports programs	3
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	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
Managing and sustaining cross-sector leveraging partnership in the post-event era: a case study of a provincial parasport collective	3
An extended source attractiveness model: the advertising effectiveness of distinct athlete endorser attractiveness types and its contextual variation	3