OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Sport Management Quarterly is 8. 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
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
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	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
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
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	13
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	13
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
Exploring shared experiences as citizen sport diplomats: a collaborative self-ethnography	12
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
Male homosociality and the overrepresentation of men as leaders in sport organizations	11
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
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
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	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