OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health is 8. 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
‘It has to hurt’: A phenomenological analysis of elite runners´ experiences in handling non-injuring running-related pain	15
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
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	14
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
Youth sport 2.0? The development of eSports in Norway from 2016 to 2019	13
Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward	13
Is #YogaForEveryone? The idealised flexible bodymind in Instagram yoga posts	12
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
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
Discussing the menstrual cycle in the sports medicine clinic: perspectives of orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists, athletes and patients	8
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