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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	164
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	32
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	29
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	21
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	20
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders	19
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	18
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology	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
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	17
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk	17
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	16
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV	16
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	15
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	15
Correction	14
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	13
Exploring parents’, coaches’, and children’s experiences and perceived outcomes in preschooler sport	13
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	12
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	12
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	12
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	12
Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	11
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	10
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	10

Re-signifying HIV through exercise: from death sentence stigma to healthy self-perception	9
Co-produced research that bridges the ‘Knowledge Gap’ to support physical activity participation in disabled children and young people with limb difference	9
Physical activity participation among children diagnosed with mental health disorders: A qualitative analysis of children’s and their guardian’s perspectives	9
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	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
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches	9
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies	9
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport	9
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	9
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle	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
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media	8
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	8
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces	8
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis	8