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Papers

(The median citation count of European Sport Management Quarterly 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: sport and COVID-19: impacts and challenges for the future (Volume 1)	44
From utilitarianism and neoclassical sport management to a new geopolitical economy of sport	34
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	32
A losing battle? Women’s sport pre- and post-COVID-19	29
Demand for public events in the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of European football	29
Service quality and its effects on consumer outcomes: a meta-analytic review in spectator sport	28
We are in this together: sport brand involvement and fans’ well-being	27
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	27
Uncertainty of outcome, team quality or star players? What drives TV audience demand for UEFA Champions League football?	23
Participatory sport events in times of COVID-19: analysing the (virtual) sport behaviour of event participants	21
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	21
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	21
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	21
Female fans and social media: micro-communities and the formation of social capital	19
National sport organization governance design archetypes for the twenty-first century	19
Local resident support for hosting a major sport event: the role of perceived personal and community impacts	19
Differences in residents’ social impact perception of a cycling event based on the fear of the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	18
Naming the ghost of capitalism in sport management	17
Exploring the role of fitness instructors’ interaction quality skills in building customer trust in the service provider and customer satisfaction	17
Match officials and abuse: a systematic review	16
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	16
An extended source attractiveness model: the advertising effectiveness of distinct athlete endorser attractiveness types and its contextual variation	15
An expanded psychological capital (A-HERO) construct for creativity: building a competitive advantage for sport organisations	15
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	14

A systematic review of governance principles in sport	14
The deployment of professional football clubs’ eSports strategies: a dynamic capabilities approach	14
The (un)level playing field: sport media during COVID-19	13
Female volunteer community sport officials: a scoping review and research agenda	13
The complexities of implementing inclusion policies for disabled people in UK non-disabled voluntary community sports clubs	12
A mediasport typology for transformative relationships: enlargement, enhancement, connection and engagement beyond COVID-19	12
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	11
Event leverage: a systematic literature review and new research agenda	11
The creation of shared value in the major sport event ecosystem: understanding the role of sponsors and hosts	11
Football players and asset manipulation: the management of football transfers in Italian Serie A	11
Analysis from a gender perspective of the Olympic Games on Twitter	10
The Muslim community and sport scholarship: a scoping review to advance sport management research	10
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	10
Every loser wins: leveraging ‘unsuccessful’ Olympic bids for positive benefits	10
Are diversified football clubs better prepared for a crisis? First empirical evidence from the stock market	10
Psychic income benefits of small-scale sports events: host community perspectives	10
Co-created value influences residents’ support toward the sporting event through the mediating mechanism of gratitude	10
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	9
Identifying the field of Olympic education: a meta-narrative review	9
How did regular sports bettors behave during covid-19 lockdown? Evidence from Poland	9
The impact of British sporting achievements on national pride among adults in England	9
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management	9
The social value of co-hosting: rethinking the management of sports events	8
The politics of organizing indigenous sport – cross-border and cross-sectoral complexity	8
Bounded rationality or bounded morality? The National Basketball Association response to COVID-19	8
Striving for excellence: talent identification and development in English football refereeing	8
The societal impact of elite sport: positives and negatives: introduction to ESMQ special issue	8
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	8
Sport scandal and fan response: the importance of ambi-fans	8
Taking stock of sport management research in the new millenia – research contributions, worthwhile knowledge, and the field’s raison d’être	8
Topic mining of real-time discussions: what catches the attention of live-streaming esports viewers?	8
I want to ride my bicycle! Or not? Health and transportation legacies of the 2017 World Road Cycling Championship	7
Relative age effect on the market value of elite European football players: a balanced sample approach	7
A systematic literature review of charity sport event sponsorship	7
Big games in small places: the African Youth Games and organisational capacity in Botswana sport federations	7
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	7
Effect of ambush marketing on attitude and purchase intention in the social media context: misidentification and identification	7
Sport management: mission and meaning for a new era	7
Saturday in the stadium: on higher attendance on Saturdays in Norwegian Eliteserien soccer league	7
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	7
A bright spot for a small league: social media performance in a football league without a COVID-19 lockdown	7
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing	7
Toward an enduring football economy: a business model taxonomy for Europe's professional football clubs	7
Hosting the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and wellbeing among Canadian youth	7
Sport entrepreneurs’ performance in business	7
Beyond the host nation: an investigation of trickle-down effects in the ‘Hometowns’ of Canadian athletes who competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games	7
Leadership in and out of the sport boardroom: new empirical insights	6
The numbers game: quantifying good governance in sport	6
The new hope of Chinese football? Youth football reforms and policy conflicts in the implementation process	6
The gatekeepers of sport governance – nomination committees’ shaping potential in national sport organizations’ board composition processes	6

Exploring volunteer engagement in a mega sport events: the role of functional attitudes	6
Image congruity in the love triangle among mega sport event organizer, sponsor, and consumers: the moderating effects of product involvement and consumer awareness	6
Superboosting the athlete social media brand: events as an opportunity for follower growth	6
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	6
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	5
The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance	5
Strategic processes in Australian golf clubs: a dynamic capabilities view	5
Salary determination in professional football: empirical evidence from goalkeepers	5
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	5
Human rights issues in host countries of the Olympic Games and resulting differences in consumer evaluations	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
Leveraging sport events for sustainable sport participation: how schools contribute to sport development through events	5
‘Turning the tanker around’. Examining the requirements, interpretations and implementation of The Equality Standard: a Framework for Sport	5
Social outcomes from participating in the Youth Olympic Games: the role of the service environment	4
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	4
The scarlet letter: impacts of moral emotions and attribution type on athlete stigmatization	4
Reconceptualizing a model of demonstration effects: integrating rational, affective, and behavioral constructs	4
When team sponsorship of cause-related messages leads to unfavorable fan reactions: the interplay among competency, cause orientation, and message source	4
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	4
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part	4
Conceptualising the inspirational effect of elite sport: a case study of field hockey in Belgium	4
Grit through the grind: exploring sport employee work grit	4
The total sporting arms race: benchmarking the efficiency of public expenditure on sports in EU countries	4
Partnerships in collegiate sport clubs: a social exchange perspective	4
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	4
Trust in fairness, doping, and the demand for sports: a study on international track and field events	4
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	4
Finding a niche in digital plenitude: sport media strategies of smaller European football leagues	4
‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	4
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	4
Modelling public trust in elite sport institutions: a theoretical synthesis and empirical test	4
Managing and sustaining cross-sector leveraging partnership in the post-event era: a case study of a provincial parasport collective	4
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	4
Fitness switching costs scale (FSCS): development and assessment of higher-order reflective-formative scale	4