OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders	181
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	31
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	23
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology	22
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	22
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	21
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	19
‘At least you got to see people when you went out for a walk’: older adults’ lived, embodied experiences during COVID-19 times in the United Kingdom	19
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	18
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk	17
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	17
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	16
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	16
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	15
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	15
Correction	15
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	14
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	13
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	13
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	12
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	12
Passing the emotional baton: the roles emotion expressions play amongst gymnasts during competition	12
Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	12
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	11
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	11

Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	10
Re-signifying HIV through exercise: from death sentence stigma to healthy self-perception	10
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches	10
Drawing strength: evaluating the Tidda Talk programme through comparative body mapping with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women	10
Grow through what you go through: a multiple-case study of competitive bodybuilders’ experiences of learning to manage the demands of their engagement in the sport	9
Physical activity participation among children diagnosed with mental health disorders: A qualitative analysis of children’s and their guardian’s perspectives	9
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China	9
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies	9
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport	9
Co-produced research that bridges the ‘Knowledge Gap’ to support physical activity participation in disabled children and young people with limb difference	9
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media	8
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	8
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces	8
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis	8
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle	8
(Re)claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures	8
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project	7
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport	7
A case study of alcohol use among male university rugby players	7
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being	7
Kicking crime into touch? A critical ethnography of rugby union, masculinity, and the limits of positive youth development in youth justice	7
Creating space for meaningful physical activity at home: women’s stories of social interaction, micro-adventure, and the joy of feeling strong	6
Athletes with intellectual impairments and their support personnel’s experience of anti-doping	6
Choose your own story: creative non-fiction about athletes attempting to qualify for the Olympics	6
Moral, health, and aesthetic risks: performance-enhancing drug use and the culture of silence in the UK strongwoman community	6
The stigma and challenges faced by retired professional male rugby players	6
Repairing relationship conflict in community sport work: “Offender” perspectives	5
Pumping iron for strength and power: prisoners’ perceptions of a stable body	5
Good athlete, bad patient? Navigating life with chronic illness in U.S. collegiate sport	5
Motherhood and competitive coaching: six stories of generational differences in persisting and resisting gender inequities in sport	5
Running blind: the sensory practices of visually impaired runners	5
‘You made us feel at home’: towards Indigenous feminist methodologies with young wāhine in sport and exercise	4
A sport research teams’ reflections on conducting emotionally demanding research with the bereaved	4
Paying attention to tension: studying the perspectives of health care workers, sports club volunteers, and people with type 2 diabetes, engaged in public-civil physical activity collaboration	4
Landscape of practice: a participatory approach to creating a trauma- and violence-informed physical activity social learning space	4
Concussion in professional wrestling: agency, structure and cultural change	4
Women moving forward in pictures: using digital photographs to explore postpartum women’s physical activity experiences	4
Understanding coaches’ perspectives on building trust in sport: a narrative inquiry approach	4
An exploration of the perceptions and experiences of professional ballet dancers using a wellness monitoring application	4
Combining crystallisation and creative non-fiction to develop new insights on the politically astute use of humour in sports coaching	4
What helps cardiac patients exercise after treatment, and when? Understanding physical activity and exercise participation following exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation	4
‘I like to run to feel’: embodiment and wearable mobile tracking devices in distance running	4
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres: a critical discourses analysis	4
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	4
The weight of stigma: Charlie and the fragility of bodies in the age of lightness	4
The fitness boom and the pursuit of body ideals: domesticating the use of smartwatches in Ghanaian fitness spaces	3
All roads lead to Rome? Talent narratives of elite athletes, musicians, and mathematicians	3
Gatekeeping and ableism in physical education provision for disabled children: perspectives and practices	3
“I am strong, I am fast, I am powerful”: a creative art-based application of body self-compassion with racialised young women athletes in Canada	3
The role of athlete support personnel in preventing doping: a qualitative study of a rugby union academy	3

“Everyone does it but no one really wants to talk about it”: roles and meanings of bodily secretions in the confines of distance running groups	3
Developing 'whole people': a case-study of a sports-friendly school	3
Abandoned to manage the post-Olympic blues: Olympians reflect on their experiences and the need for a change	3
Inescapable tensions: performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption	3
“More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults	3
Whiteness, Canadian university athletic administration, and anti-racism leadership: ‘A bunch of white haired, white dudes in the back rooms’	3