OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Sport Management Quarterly is 9. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	60
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	52
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	44
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	39
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	37
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	34
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	29
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	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
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	21
Understanding cross-cultural interactions and diversity in professional sports organizations: the case of football and forced migration in Germany and Italy	21
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	20
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	19
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	18
Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations	18
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	18
How football Bundesliga matches affect traffic volume and carbon emissions	17
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	16
Examining the relationships between brand knowledge, brand responses and brand resonance in sports leagues within the scope of consumer-based brand equity	16
Agency and institutions in sport	15
‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	15
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	14
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	14
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	13

Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	13
Paying while playing: examining the influence of interaction with gamified elements in fantasy sports on in-app spending	13
When calling and overwork climate collide: the effect on burnout and intention to change careers	13
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	12
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	11
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	11
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	11
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	11
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	10
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	10
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	10
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	10
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	10
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	10
A monetary valuation of hosting a sport mega-event via residential real estate markets in small host communities: evidence from post-event analysis	9
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	9
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	9
A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia	9
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	9
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	9
Sport media has an audience measurement problem	9