OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“ We just want to get fit too ”: belonging and inclusion in the gym	47
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	32
‘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
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders	24
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	23
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	20
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	19
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	19
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	18
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	18
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	17
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	17
Correction	16
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	16
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	16
Being there in sport, exercise and health ethnography: reflections from the bouldering apprentice	16
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	15
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	15
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	14
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	14
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	12
“2032 is a dream for us”: exploring amputee football players’ understanding of classification in para-sport and its application to amputee football	11
Passing the emotional baton: the roles emotion expressions play amongst gymnasts during competition	11
Love, sacrifice, and rebirth: exploring the embodied narratives of retired women ballet dancers using life history interviews and body mapping	11
Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	10

Territorial identification in crisis: fan identity negotiation following club dissolution in Chinese football	9
Drawing strength: evaluating the Tidda Talk programme through comparative body mapping with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women	9
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	9
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies	9
‘The gym is an island’ forced migration and youth sports: a case study of a Ukrainian youth basketball coach	9
Co-produced research that bridges the ‘Knowledge Gap’ to support physical activity participation in disabled children and young people with limb difference	8
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport	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	7
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches	7
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle	7
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces	7
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	7
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis	7
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media	7
Equipping service providers: how social learning spaces enhance trauma- and violence-informed physical activity practices	6
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being	6
Kicking crime into touch? A critical ethnography of rugby union, masculinity, and the limits of positive youth development in youth justice	6
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	6
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport	6
Recovering with grace: a grounded theory of female artistic sport athletes’ experiences with sport-related concussion	6
(Re)claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures	6
Moral, health, and aesthetic risks: performance-enhancing drug use and the culture of silence in the UK strongwoman community	6
Athletes with intellectual impairments and their support personnel’s experience of anti-doping	6