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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences	106
Developing the craft: reflexive accounts of doing reflexive thematic analysis	97
More than meets the eye: a relational analysis of young women’s body capital and embodied understandings of health and fitness on Instagram	25
Reflections from the ‘Strava-sphere’: Kudos, community, and (self-)surveillance on a social network for athletes	23
Safeguarding in sports settings: unpacking a conflicting identity	22
‘Stop mocking, start respecting’: an activist approach meets African Australian refugee-background young women in grassroots football	22
Bridging the Know-Do Gap Using Integrated Knowledge Translation and Qualitative Inquiry: A Narrative Review	19
‘Like, what even is a podcast?’ Approaching sport-for-development youth participatory action research through digital methodologies	18
Feminist collaborative becomings: an entangled process of knowing through fitness objects	17
#Skinny girls: young girls’ learning processes and health-related social media	16
Blurring boundaries between humans and technology: postdigital, postphenomenology and actor-network theory in qualitative research	16
Women-only swimming as a space of belonging	15
The event-focused interview: what is it, why is it useful, and how is it used?	15
‘It has to hurt’: A phenomenological analysis of elite runners´ experiences in handling non-injuring running-related pain	15
A move to rethink life skills as assemblages: a call to postqualitative inquiry	14
Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations	14
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	14
Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward	13
Youth sport 2.0? The development of eSports in Norway from 2016 to 2019	13
Exploring parent and coach relationships in youth sport: A qualitative study	12
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	12
Stories of physical activity and disability: exploring sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination through story completion	12
Is #YogaForEveryone? The idealised flexible bodymind in Instagram yoga posts	12
Runners’ experiences of street harassment in London	11
Contemporary digital qualitative research in sport, exercise and health: introduction	11

#gainingweightiscool: the use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders	11
Narratives of trauma and resilience from Street Soccer players	11
Beyond life-skills: talented athletes, existential learning and (Un)learning the life of an athlete	10
Repairing relationship conflict in community sport work: “Offender” perspectives	10
Bringing Sports Coaches’ Experiences of Primary Appraisals and Psychological Well-being to Life using Composite Vignettes	10
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	10
‘I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: a phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’	10
Sport fans’ perspectives of public shaming of professional athletes on social media	9
A critical discourse analysis of the dominant discourses being used to portray parasport coaches in the newspaper media	9
Supporting ‘blue care’ through outdoor water-based activities: practitioner perspectives	9
The café talk: a discussion of the process of developing a creative non-fiction	9
Easy as riding a bike? Bicycling competence as (re)learning to negotiate space	9
‘That’s how I am dealing with it – thatisdealing with it’: exploring men athletes’ self-compassion through the lens of masculinity	9
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	9
Participatory research with young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a reflective account	9
Impacting and being impacted by overuse injuries: an ethnodrama of parents’ experiences	9
‘Coach, or female coach? And does it matter?’: An autoethnography of playing the gendered game over a twenty-year elite swim coaching career	9
Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ perceptions of the Canadian sport environment and mental health	8
Considerations for making informed choices about engaging in open qualitative research	8
(Un)Making the international student a settler of colour: a decolonising autoethnography	8
Discussing the menstrual cycle in the sports medicine clinic: perspectives of orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists, athletes and patients	8
A critical discourse analysis of racial narratives from White athletes attending a historically Black college/University	7
Athletes’ understanding of concussion – uncertainty, certainty and the ‘expert’ on the street	7
Reflexive confessions of a female sport psychologist: from REBT to existential counselling with a transnational footballer	7
Fragile femininity, embodiment, and self-managing harm: an interpretative phenomenological study exploring the lived experience of females who use anabolic-androgenic steroids	7
Identifying best-practice amongst health professionals who work with people using image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) through participatory action research	7
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	6
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	6
Embodied experiences of injured endurance runners: a qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology	6
Understanding coach-athlete conflict: an ethnodrama to illustrate conflict in elite sport	6
Conducting collaborative research across global North-South contexts: benefits, challenges and implications of working with visual and digital participatory research approaches	6
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	6
Different spokes for different folks: experiences with cycling and the bicycle from the perspective of variably-housed cyclists in Vancouver	6
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project	6
‘From fat and frazzled to fit and happy’: governing the unhealthy employee through quantification and wearable technologies	6
Searching for ontological security: women’s experiences leading to high drive for muscularity	5
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	5
Fear as a barrier to physical activity in young adults with obesity: a qualitative study	5
What is athlete life management in Singapore’s sporting ecosystem? An interpretative phenomenological analysis of a dual-career assistance program	5
Inescapable tensions: performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption	5
An exploration of reciprocity between female athletes and their coach in elite junior swimming: a shared reality theory perspective	5
The role of athlete support personnel in preventing doping: a qualitative study of a rugby union academy	5
Abandoned to manage the post-Olympic blues: Olympians reflect on their experiences and the need for a change	5
Concussion in professional wrestling: agency, structure and cultural change	5
Harnessing the power of sport for disaster recovery	4
Fitness v fatness? Bodies, boundaries and bias in the gym	4
All roads lead to Rome? Talent narratives of elite athletes, musicians, and mathematicians	4
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	4
‘We are all in this together’: a creative non-fiction story of older adults participating in power-assisted exercise	4

Pleasure and danger: a running-woman in ‘public’ space	4
Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study	4
“I feel like a kid again”: the voices of youth experiencing homelessness in a mobile recreation program	4
Exploring athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with and understanding of classification in Para sport	4
Exclusion, inclusion and belonging in mainstream and disability sport: Jack’s story	4
An exploration of the perceptions and experiences of professional ballet dancers using a wellness monitoring application	4
Women moving forward in pictures: using digital photographs to explore postpartum women’s physical activity experiences	4
“It’s less about you as a person and more about the result you can produce”: examining coach and peer dynamics in sport from a psychosocial perspective	4
‘I like to run to feel’: embodiment and wearable mobile tracking devices in distance running	3
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	3
Making sense of humour among men in a weight-loss program: A dialogical narrative approach	3
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	3
Down with the Thickness?: Male Olympic Weightlifters’ Negotiations of Weight Class, Strength, & Body Composition	3
Understanding parents’ motives for, and beliefs about, enrolling three-to-five-year-old children into organised sporting programs	3
The role of peers and the recreational environment in adolescent emotional safety	3
‘Strong and courageous’ but ‘constantly insecure’: dialogical self theory, intersecting identities, and Christian mixed martial arts	3
Beyond Caster as object? Examining media constructions of Caster Semenya through decolonial thinking	3
Newspaper media representations of athlete experiences with eating disorders: a critical discourse analysis	3
‘I’m glad I can walk, but sometimes it’s so challenging that it’s an inconvenience to myself and others’: physical activity experiences among individuals with spinal cord injury who ambulate	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
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV	3
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres: a critical discourses analysis	3