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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	47
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	33
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders	28
‘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	24
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	23
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	21
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	20
“ We just want to get fit too ”: belonging and inclusion in the gym	20
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	19
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	19
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	18
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	18
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	17
Being there in sport, exercise and health ethnography: reflections from the bouldering apprentice	17
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	16
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	16
Correction	16
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	15
“2032 is a dream for us”: exploring amputee football players’ understanding of classification in para-sport and its application to amputee football	15
Love, sacrifice, and rebirth: exploring the embodied narratives of retired women ballet dancers using life history interviews and body mapping	14
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	12
Passing the emotional baton: the roles emotion expressions play amongst gymnasts during competition	12
‘The gym is an island’ forced migration and youth sports: a case study of a Ukrainian youth basketball coach	11
Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	11
Territorial identification in crisis: fan identity negotiation following club dissolution in Chinese football	10

Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	10
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	10
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies	9
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	9
Drawing strength: evaluating the Tidda Talk programme through comparative body mapping with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women	9
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China	9
Re-signifying HIV through exercise: from death sentence stigma to healthy self-perception	8
Co-produced research that bridges the ‘Knowledge Gap’ to support physical activity participation in disabled children and young people with limb difference	8
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport	7
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis	7
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches	7
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces	7
(Re)claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures	6
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport	6
Recovering with grace: a grounded theory of female artistic sport athletes’ experiences with sport-related concussion	6
A case study of alcohol use among male university rugby players	6
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being	6
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	6
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle	6
Athletes with intellectual impairments and their support personnel’s experience of anti-doping	6
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	6
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media	6
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project	6
Equipping service providers: how social learning spaces enhance trauma- and violence-informed physical activity practices	6
Choose your own story: creative non-fiction about athletes attempting to qualify for the Olympics	5
Running blind: the sensory practices of visually impaired runners	5
Creating space for meaningful physical activity at home: women’s stories of social interaction, micro-adventure, and the joy of feeling strong	5
Repairing relationship conflict in community sport work: “Offender” perspectives	5
Kicking crime into touch? A critical ethnography of rugby union, masculinity, and the limits of positive youth development in youth justice	5
The stigma and challenges faced by retired professional male rugby players	5
Good athlete, bad patient? Navigating life with chronic illness in U.S. collegiate sport	5
Moral, health, and aesthetic risks: performance-enhancing drug use and the culture of silence in the UK strongwoman community	5
Motherhood and competitive coaching: six stories of generational differences in persisting and resisting gender inequities in sport	4
The making of a coach: lesbian coaches’ professional learning in Spanish sport	4
Understanding coaches’ perspectives on building trust in sport: a narrative inquiry approach	4
Fighting to feel alive: Krav Maga, post-trauma, and the embodied healing journey after a mass violence event	4
Pumping iron for strength and power: prisoners’ perceptions of a stable body	4
‘I like to run to feel’: embodiment and wearable mobile tracking devices in distance running	4
Women moving forward in pictures: using digital photographs to explore postpartum women’s physical activity experiences	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
An exploration of the perceptions and experiences of professional ballet dancers using a wellness monitoring application	4
‘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
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	4
Combining crystallisation and creative non-fiction to develop new insights on the politically astute use of humour in sports coaching	3
Landscape of practice: a participatory approach to creating a trauma- and violence-informed physical activity social learning space	3
Uncertainty, loss, ambivalence, and connection: conversations with older adults about social isolation during COVID -19 physical activity programme closures	3
Experiences of people with prediabetes in a self-compassion and physical activity intervention: a qualitative study using participatory Theme Elicitation	3
Gatekeeping and ableism in physical education provision for disabled children: perspectives and practices	3
The fitness boom and the pursuit of body ideals: domesticating the use of smartwatches in Ghanaian fitness spaces	3

Shouldering the burden: how stories shape esports coaching careers	3
The weight of stigma: Charlie and the fragility of bodies in the age of lightness	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
Inescapable tensions: performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption	3
The post-podium athlete body: navigating motherhood, aging, and legacies of abuse in an elite sport comeback	3
Developing 'whole people': a case-study of a sports-friendly school	3
Epistemic injustice in physical education and sport: a critical disability studies perspective	3
Attachment orientation as a narrative resource: stories of care in the youth athlete-coach relationship	3
What helps cardiac patients exercise after treatment, and when? Understanding physical activity and exercise participation following exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation	3
Poetic confessions of a neophyte qualitative researcher undertaking emotionally demanding research in sport	3
Concussion in professional wrestling: agency, structure and cultural change	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