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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences	66
Developing the craft: reflexive accounts of doing reflexive thematic analysis	64
Autoethnography: accept, revise, reject? An evaluative self reflects	31
More than meets the eye: a relational analysis of young women’s body capital and embodied understandings of health and fitness on Instagram	20
‘Can you move your fat ass off the baseline?’ Exploring the sport experiences of adolescent girls with body image concerns	20
Reflections from the ‘Strava-sphere’: Kudos, community, and (self-)surveillance on a social network for athletes	20
‘Stop mocking, start respecting’: an activist approach meets African Australian refugee-background young women in grassroots football	19
Poor mental health outcomes in crisis transitions: an examination of retired athletes accounting of crisis transition experiences in a cultural context	17
‘Like, what even is a podcast?’ Approaching sport-for-development youth participatory action research through digital methodologies	17
Distance runners in a dys-appearance state – Reconceptualizing the perception of pain and suffering in times of bodily distress	16
Parental involvement and children’s enjoyment in sport	16
Exploring the impact of physical activity-related weight stigma among women with self-identified obesity	16
Using social network theory to explore a participatory action research collaboration through social media	16
Safeguarding in sports settings: unpacking a conflicting identity	15
‘It has to hurt’: A phenomenological analysis of elite runners´ experiences in handling non-injuring running-related pain	15
A tale of three seasons: a cultural sport psychology and gender performativity approach to practitioner identity and development in professional football	15
‘I’m just lost in the world’: the impact of blue exercise on participant well-being	15
Feminist collaborative becomings: an entangled process of knowing through fitness objects	14
Sustainable elite sport: Swedish athletes’ voices of sustainability in athletics	14
Exploring sports coaches’ experiences of using a contemporary pedagogical approach to coaching: an international perspective	14
‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral “stickiness“ of binary gender	13
Blurring boundaries between humans and technology: postdigital, postphenomenology and actor-network theory in qualitative research	13
Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward	12
#Skinny girls: young girls’ learning processes and health-related social media	12
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	12

Women-only swimming as a space of belonging	11
A move to rethink life skills as assemblages: a call to postqualitative inquiry	11
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Community Exercise Experiences after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury	10
Narratives of trauma and resilience from Street Soccer players	10
Youth sport 2.0? The development of eSports in Norway from 2016 to 2019	10
Contemporary digital qualitative research in sport, exercise and health: introduction	10
#gainingweightiscool: the use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders	9
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	9
Is #YogaForEveryone? The idealised flexible bodymind in Instagram yoga posts	9
Runners’ experiences of street harassment in London	9
‘That’s how I am dealing with it – thatisdealing with it’: exploring men athletes’ self-compassion through the lens of masculinity	8
The café talk: a discussion of the process of developing a creative non-fiction	8
Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations	8
Meaning and experiences of physical activity in rural and northern communities	8
‘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’	8
Easy as riding a bike? Bicycling competence as (re)learning to negotiate space	8
Supporting ‘blue care’ through outdoor water-based activities: practitioner perspectives	8
Bringing Sports Coaches’ Experiences of Primary Appraisals and Psychological Well-being to Life using Composite Vignettes	8
The event-focused interview: what is it, why is it useful, and how is it used?	8
Sport fans’ perspectives of public shaming of professional athletes on social media	7
Considerations for making informed choices about engaging in open qualitative research	7
Impacting and being impacted by overuse injuries: an ethnodrama of parents’ experiences	7
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	7
Bridging the Know-Do Gap Using Integrated Knowledge Translation and Qualitative Inquiry: A Narrative Review	7
A critical discourse analysis of the dominant discourses being used to portray parasport coaches in the newspaper media	7
(Un)Making the international student a settler of colour: a decolonising autoethnography	7
The youth football journey: parents’ experiences and recommendations for support	7
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	7
My video coach - a phenomenographic interpretation of athlete perceptions of coaching through a live video feed	6
Abandoned to manage the post-Olympic blues: Olympians reflect on their experiences and the need for a change	6
‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running	6
Identifying best-practice amongst health professionals who work with people using image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) through participatory action research	6
Maximising enjoyment to sustain girls’ sport participation: a unique case study of Netball in Australia	6
Participatory research with young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a reflective account	6
Conducting collaborative research across global North-South contexts: benefits, challenges and implications of working with visual and digital participatory research approaches	6
Stories of physical activity and disability: exploring sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination through story completion	6
Fragile femininity, embodiment, and self-managing harm: an interpretative phenomenological study exploring the lived experience of females who use anabolic-androgenic steroids	6
Different spokes for different folks: experiences with cycling and the bicycle from the perspective of variably-housed cyclists in Vancouver	6
Reflexive confessions of a female sport psychologist: from REBT to existential counselling with a transnational footballer	6
Irish adolescents’ perspectives on the factors influencing motivation in team sport	5
‘From fat and frazzled to fit and happy’: governing the unhealthy employee through quantification and wearable technologies	5
The power of interactive flow in salsa dance: a motion-sensing phenomenological inquiry featuring two-time world champion, Anya Katsevman	5
Understanding coach-athlete conflict: an ethnodrama to illustrate conflict in elite sport	5
An exploration of reciprocity between female athletes and their coach in elite junior swimming: a shared reality theory perspective	5
Sink or swim: career narratives of two African American athletes from underserved communities in the United States	5
Beyond life-skills: talented athletes, existential learning and (Un)learning the life of an athlete	5
A critical discourse analysis of racial narratives from White athletes attending a historically Black college/University	5
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	5
Repairing relationship conflict in community sport work: “Offender” perspectives	5
‘Write when it hurts. Then write till it doesn’t’: athlete voice and the lived realities of one female professional athlete	4

Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	4
What is athlete life management in Singapore’s sporting ecosystem? An interpretative phenomenological analysis of a dual-career assistance program	4
The role of athlete support personnel in preventing doping: a qualitative study of a rugby union academy	4
The meaning of movement in the everyday lives of Danish high-school students: a phenomenological study exploring existential well-being as ‘dwelling-mobility’	4
Exploring parent and coach relationships in youth sport: A qualitative study	4
Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study	4
Embodied experiences of injured endurance runners: a qualitative meta-synthesis	4
A creative non-fiction story of an athlete’s journey through the life skills application process	3
An exploration of the perceptions and experiences of professional ballet dancers using a wellness monitoring application	3
‘Coach, or female coach? And does it matter?’: An autoethnography of playing the gendered game over a twenty-year elite swim coaching career	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
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres: a critical discourses analysis	3
Searching for ontological security: women’s experiences leading to high drive for muscularity	3
Athletes’ understanding of concussion – uncertainty, certainty and the ‘expert’ on the street	3
Pleasure and danger: a running-woman in ‘public’ space	3
Exclusion, inclusion and belonging in mainstream and disability sport: Jack’s story	3
All roads lead to Rome? Talent narratives of elite athletes, musicians, and mathematicians	3
Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ perceptions of the Canadian sport environment and mental health	3
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project	3
‘Nước Việtnam là Quê Hương Của Tôi:’ historical, political and sociocultural implications of the Vietnamese-American researcher in sport for development.”	3
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology	3