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 2021-05-01 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
‘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
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
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	16
“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
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	15
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV	15
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	14
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	14
‘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
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
Exploring parents’, coaches’, and children’s experiences and perceived outcomes in preschooler sport	12
Fragile femininity, embodiment, and self-managing harm: an interpretative phenomenological study exploring the lived experience of females who use anabolic-androgenic steroids	11
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
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	10
Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	9

Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	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
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
“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