OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health is 7. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	193
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	36
‘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	27
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	25
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders	24
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	23
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	20
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	19
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	17
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	17
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	17
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk	17
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	16
Correction	15
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	15
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	14
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	14
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	13
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	13
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	13
“2032 is a dream for us”: exploring amputee football players’ understanding of classification in para-sport and its application to amputee football	13
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	12
Passing the emotional baton: the roles emotion expressions play amongst gymnasts during competition	12
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	12
Love, sacrifice, and rebirth: exploring the embodied narratives of retired women ballet dancers using life history interviews and body mapping	12

Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	12
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	11
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches	10
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China	10
Re-signifying HIV through exercise: from death sentence stigma to healthy self-perception	10
Co-produced research that bridges the ‘Knowledge Gap’ to support physical activity participation in disabled children and young people with limb difference	10
Drawing strength: evaluating the Tidda Talk programme through comparative body mapping with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women	10
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces	9
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport	9
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle	9
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies	9
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media	8
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis	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
(Re)claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures	8
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport	7
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being	7
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	7