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

Article	Citations
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	50
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	43
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	41
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	40
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	40
Gender-specific impact of age diversity on the performance of small teams: empirical evidence from professional biathlon relays	34
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	33
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	30
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	28
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	27
Reconceptualizing a model of demonstration effects: integrating rational, affective, and behavioral constructs	25
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	24
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	23
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	23
The impact of British sporting achievements on national pride among adults in England	23
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	22
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	22
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	20
Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations	19
Examining the relationships between brand knowledge, brand responses and brand resonance in sports leagues within the scope of consumer-based brand equity	19
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	18
The societal impact of elite sport: positives and negatives: introduction to ESMQ special issue	18
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	17
‘We shouldn’t have to ask’: exploring the realities of minority ethnic women football spectators	16
Facilitating sporting and non-sporting career goals of elite athletes through mentoring programmes	15

Agency and institutions in sport	15
Event leverage: a systematic literature review and new research agenda	13
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	12
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	12
Paying while playing: examining the influence of interaction with gamified elements in fantasy sports on in-app spending	12
‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	12
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	12
When calling and overwork climate collide: the effect on burnout and intention to change careers	12
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management	11
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	11
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	11
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	10
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	10
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	10
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	10
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	10
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	10
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	9
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	9
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	9
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	9
A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia	8
Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds	8
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	8
Assessing the psychological pathways of esports events spectators: an application of service quality and its antecedents and consequences	8
Sport media has an audience measurement problem	8
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	8
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	8
Women’s volleyball demand across different distribution channels	7
From utilitarianism and neoclassical sport management to a new geopolitical economy of sport	7
Product meanings and consumer behavior in sport entertainment: the case of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)	7
Service quality and its effects on consumer outcomes: a meta-analytic review in spectator sport	7
Utilizing a theory of racialized organizations within sport management research and practice	7
Introduction: sport and COVID-19: impacts and challenges for the future (Volume 1)	7
Public attitudes toward athlete activism in sport: utilizing a multivariate list experiment to address social desirability bias in survey responses	7
The legitimacy work of institutional disruption and maintenance: examining the rivalry between LIV golf and the professional golf association	7
Governing the paradox of success in a hybrid supporter-owned professional football club	7
Sport organizations under tension: dynamic capabilities and resilience building during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	7
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	7
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	6
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	6
Local resident support for hosting a major sport event: the role of perceived personal and community impacts	6
No long-term consequences for social irresponsibility? Adidas’ rent incident during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	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 creation of shared value in the major sport event ecosystem: understanding the role of sponsors and hosts	5
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
Beyond the host nation: an investigation of trickle-down effects in the ‘Hometowns’ of Canadian athletes who competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games	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
Partnerships in collegiate sport clubs: a social exchange perspective	5
Industry hierarchy in team sport industries, team tactics and competitive advantage: the empty goal option in league handball	5
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	5
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	4
Host community salience loss across major sport event planning	4
Fan and fantasy: investigating the impact of fantasy sports on sports fan identity	4
Saturday in the stadium: on higher attendance on Saturdays in Norwegian Eliteserien soccer league	4
Achieving gender equity: barriers and possibilities at board level in Swedish sport	4
National sport organization governance design archetypes for the twenty-first century	4
A three-dimensional model of innovation within Flemish non-profit sports organisations	4
Survival of fitness clubs: customer experience quality as a competitive resource	4
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
Naming the ghost of capitalism in sport management	4
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	4
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	4
A mediasport typology for transformative relationships: enlargement, enhancement, connection and engagement beyond COVID-19	4
The social value of co-hosting: rethinking the management of sports events	4
Football volunteering and subjective well-being: a multi-country study of different voluntary roles and well-being measures	4
Managing the compliance of national federations: an examination of the strategies of international Olympic sports federations	3
Toward an enduring football economy: a business model taxonomy for Europe's professional football clubs	3
Sport management: mission and meaning for a new era	3
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part	3
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	3
Predicting transfer fees in professional European football before and during COVID-19 using machine learning	3
Conceptualising the inspirational effect of elite sport: a case study of field hockey in Belgium	3
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	3
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
The personal is professional: exploring romantic relationship within the socioecology of an athlete brand	3
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	3
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	3
The impact of perceived corporate social responsibility on value-in-use through customer engagement in non-profit sports clubs: the moderating role of co-production	3