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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology	146
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	30
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	26
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	18
Identities and moralities in social networks. A digital ethnography of running in contemporary society	18
‘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	18
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	16
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	16
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	16
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV	15
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	15
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	14
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	14
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	13
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	13
Correction	13
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk	13
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	13
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	13
Exploring parents’, coaches’, and children’s experiences and perceived outcomes in preschooler sport	12
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	11
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	11
Fragile femininity, embodiment, and self-managing harm: an interpretative phenomenological study exploring the lived experience of females who use anabolic-androgenic steroids	11
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	10
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	9

Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	9
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport	8
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches	8
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies	8
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	8
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China	8
Re-signifying HIV through exercise: from death sentence stigma to healthy self-perception	8
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	8
Physical activity participation among children diagnosed with mental health disorders: A qualitative analysis of children’s and their guardian’s perspectives	8
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	8
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces	7
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle	7
‘That’s how I am dealing with it – thatisdealing with it’: exploring men athletes’ self-compassion through the lens of masculinity	7
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	7
(Re)claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures	7
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being	7
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media	7
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport	7
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis	7
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project	6
Runners’ experiences of street harassment in London	6
A case study of alcohol use among male university rugby players	6
Lost and found: parkrun, work and identity	6
Moral, health, and aesthetic risks: performance-enhancing drug use and the culture of silence in the UK strongwoman community	6
Creating space for meaningful physical activity at home: women’s stories of social interaction, micro-adventure, and the joy of feeling strong	6
A critical discourse analysis of racial narratives from White athletes attending a historically Black college/University	6
‘You made us feel at home’: towards Indigenous feminist methodologies with young wāhine in sport and exercise	5
Pumping iron for strength and power: prisoners’ perceptions of a stable body	5
Running blind: the sensory practices of visually impaired runners	5
Choose your own story: creative non-fiction about athletes attempting to qualify for the Olympics	5
Repairing relationship conflict in community sport work: “Offender” perspectives	5
Motherhood and competitive coaching: six stories of generational differences in persisting and resisting gender inequities in sport	4
A sport research teams’ reflections on conducting emotionally demanding research with the bereaved	4
Landscape of practice: a participatory approach to creating a trauma- and violence-informed physical activity social learning space	4
Women moving forward in pictures: using digital photographs to explore postpartum women’s physical activity experiences	4
An exploration of the perceptions and experiences of professional ballet dancers using a wellness monitoring application	4
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres: a critical discourses analysis	4
‘I like to run to feel’: embodiment and wearable mobile tracking devices in distance running	4
‘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’	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
Understanding coaches’ perspectives on building trust in sport: a narrative inquiry approach	4
Combining crystallisation and creative non-fiction to develop new insights on the politically astute use of humour in sports coaching	3
‘Strong and courageous’ but ‘constantly insecure’: dialogical self theory, intersecting identities, and Christian mixed martial arts	3
The fitness boom and the pursuit of body ideals: domesticating the use of smartwatches in Ghanaian fitness spaces	3
Participatory research with young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a reflective account	3
All roads lead to Rome? Talent narratives of elite athletes, musicians, and mathematicians	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
Understanding coach-athlete conflict: an ethnodrama to illustrate conflict in elite sport	3
An exploration of reciprocity between female athletes and their coach in elite junior swimming: a shared reality theory perspective	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

Beyond life-skills: talented athletes, existential learning and (Un)learning the life of an athlete	3
Inescapable tensions: performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption	3
Whiteness, Canadian university athletic administration, and anti-racism leadership: ‘A bunch of white haired, white dudes in the back rooms’	3
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	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
Gatekeeping and ableism in physical education provision for disabled children: perspectives and practices	3
Abandoned to manage the post-Olympic blues: Olympians reflect on their experiences and the need for a change	3
The role of athlete support personnel in preventing doping: a qualitative study of a rugby union academy	3