OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Manage is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the excess demand for recreation in Northern Ireland to inform land use policy	79
The cognitive and conative image in insular marine protected areas: A study from Galapagos, Ecuador	74
The influences of paragliding flow experience on storytelling intention through satisfaction: A comparison of adventure-seekers and learning-seekers	72
Postleisure: Disrupting the Disciplinary Fixity of Leisure Thinking	65
Leisure constraint and mental health: The case of park users in Ningbo, China	53
The impact of recreational activities on species at risk in Canada	52
Exploring the potential of forest rental services as a tool for balancing recreation and forestry	51
Inclusive pathways to understand differential forest recreation participation among ethnoracial minorities in the United States	49
Understanding exposure to avalanche terrain and avalanche information product use of snowshoers and winter hikers: Insights from Mount Seymour Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada	43
Been there, done that? Effects of centrality-to-lifestyle and experience use history on angling tourists’ loyalty to a Swedish salmon fishery	42
Leveraging human mobility data to assess recreational activity across the United States’ most visited National Forest	42
Thinking big: The role of mega trails in creating meaning and sense of place to conserve large landscapes	42
Ecological Footprint and tourism: Development and sustainability monitoring of ecotourism packages in Mediterranean Protected Areas	39
Hiking-related degradation of alpine landscape in Low Tatras national park (Slovakia) during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Senior outdoor tourists’ injuries, illnesses & infirmities: Reveal or conceal?	35
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the popularity of protected areas for mountain biking and hiking in Australia: Insights from volunteered geographic information	34
Older adults’ preferences for natural environment and rural life: Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental motivation	34
Editorial Board	33
Perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices associated with open water swimming	30
Editorial: Introduction to sustainably managing outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism as social-ecological complex adaptive systems	29
Stand-up paddling: A case study on the effect and impact pathway of information and appeals to reduce ecological conflicts	27
Cases and context: Mask-related behaviors among U.S. trail visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Research note: Spatial variations of condition class in Clifty Wilderness, Daniel Boone National Forest, KY, USA	26
Using social media user profiles to identify visitor demographics and origins in Yellowstone national park	26
Crawling with a vehicle: Rock-crawlers’ recreation specialization, motivation, and sources of challenges	25

Climate change adaptation in the ski industry: Stakeholders' perceptions regarding a mountain resort in Southeastern Europe	25
Novice tourists’ play experience in commercial outdoor adventure tourism: The perspective of reversal theory	24
Conceptualising the power of outdoor adventure activities for subjective well-being: A systematic literature review	24
Factors promoting nature-based outdoor recreation during the daytime and evening	23
Does language make a difference? Exploring the hiking experience of a nation-specific online community	23
Urban space use for outing before and during the pandemic: A case study of Daejeon, South Korea using social media posts	22
“To use or not to use” - Mobile technology in nature-based tourism experience	21
Editorial Board	21
Outdoor recreation shows promise as an equitable context for youth informal STEM learning in amenity-rich rural areas	21
Intra-spatial displacement at high-use recreation destinations: Employing spatial analyses to explore visitor behavior	21
Camping in clearcuts: The impacts of timber harvesting on USFS campground utilization	20
Adaptation to climate change in nature-based tourist destination in northern Ghana	19
Tourism flow and the consumption of aesthetic landscape values in high-elevation mountain areas in the Alps: A cartographic and spatio-market methodology	19
Managing sustainable development in recreational and protected areas. The Dovre case, Norway	19
The recreational value of botanic garden events: A case study of the Zagara plant fair in Palermo, Italy	19
Estimating park visitation in Canadian national parks using volunteered geographic information (VGI)	18
Exploring the gendered landscape of the avalanche safety industry – barriers, benefits and potential drawbacks of professional diversity	18
Exploring urban waterscape perceptions: relating landscape visual character and landscape image through a multi-perspective approach	18
Eudaimonic well-being development: Motives driving mountain-based adventure tourism	18
Squeezing the most from volunteered geographic information to monitor mountain biking in peri-urban protected and recreational areas at a metropolitan scale	18
The residents' participation in tourism based social entrepreneurship organization: Evidence from residents’ perception on ecosphere social enterprise	17
Nature always recovers! A degrowth analysis of event participants’ perspective on environmental impacts	17
From soft to hard adventure: Examining experienced mountaineers’ mountaineering intentions through the lens of the theory of planned behavior	17
The effect of event quality on participants’ intention to revisit a sport event: Monetary valuation and mitigation of hypothetical bias	16
Peaks and passion: Examining the dynamics of workplace commitments among outdoor sport guides	16
Optimizing spatial distribution of parks based on the preference for park types: A case study with an improved two-step floating catchment area method	16
Recreation and disarray: Analysis of disorder in U.S. national parks	15
Natural attributes or aesthetic attributes: Which is more valuable in recreational ecosystem services of nature-based parks considering tourists’ environmental knowledge and attitude impacts?	15
Editorial Board	15
Examining the influence of activity attachment on responsible angling behavior: Insights from anglers at a friendly fishing demonstration site	15
Landscape management and planning as a spatial organization method connecting CES supply-demand assessment and sustainable tourism development	15
Dysfunctional tourism behaviors in national parks: An exploration of causes, typologies, and consequences in the case of Saharan tourism	14
A step towards a greener green? Investigating golfers’ relationships with nature and attitudes about biodiversity conservation in golf courses	14
Pleasure and restriction: The relationships between community tourism experience value and visitor management	14
Influence of digital technologies on hikers' spatial behaviour and perception	14
Deep nature glamping in Germany – Potentials and configuration of a nature tourism offer	14
Discourse about national parks on social media: Insights from Twitter	14
Climate Resource View (CRV): A case of thermal safety at United States national parks	14
Trail sustainability broadly defined	13
Bird photos as trophies: Status signalling, reinforcement, and competition	13
Gateway community stakeholders’ perceived impacts of protected area management actions: The case of North Carolina (U.S.) state parks	13
Editorial Board	13
The impact of COVID-19 on the Australian outdoor recreation industry from the perspective of practitioners	13
Understanding visitor compliance with cross-country ski trail passes under open access	13
Beyond the buzzwords: Rethinking sustainability in adventure tourism through real travellers practices	13
The underdog effect: Towards a conceptual framework for enhancing voluntourism	13
The art of making fire-with	13
Understanding spatial inequities in urban neighborhood park services: A mixed method study in Taiwan	12
Resilience-based preferences for technology-enhanced hiking services in Mount Semeru, Indonesia	12
Changes in travel behaviors and intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery period: A case study of China	12

Research note: Ski touring on groomed slopes and the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential trigger for motivational changes	12
Managing conflict by mapping stakeholders’ views on ecotourism development using statement and place Q methodology	12
Biking-hiking conflicts and their mitigation in urban recreation areas: Results of a quasi-experimental long-term evaluation in the Zurich forest	12
Understanding visitors' personality perceptions of winter destinations: Evidences from Chinese travelers	12
Environmental and social impacts of shifting park-use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from state and local park managers	12
Successful camping operators: Performance measurement using cluster analysis and DEA methods.	12
Research note: The impact of advanced information communication technologies on visitor acceptance of forest management in response to emerald ash borer	12
Exploring the avalanche bulletin as an avenue for continuing education by including learning interventions	12
Perceived constraints to participating in wildlife-related recreation	12
Matching destination difficulty and participant capability in outdoor recreation and tourism: role of third-party certifications for 15 activities in 52 countries	12
Editorial Board	12
Beneath the lens: Exploring the impacts of underwater photographers in marine-based tourism	12
Sustainable recreation and tourism: Making sense of diverse conceptualizations and management paradigms	12
The role of brand associations on the development of place attachment into outdoor adventure tourism destinations	11
How ocean beach recreational quality fits with safety issues? An analysis of risky behaviours in France	11
A nationwide assessment of awareness about US national parks	11
Economic impacts of trail destinations: The case of the Peaks of the Balkans trail	11
Not seeing the wood for the (invasive) trees: Visitors’ perceptions of invasive wilding conifers in the New Zealand landscape	11
The value of social distancing: A discrete choice experiment to examine golf tourists’ preferences for COVID-19 Safety protocols	11
In what context do scholars differentiate recreation and tourism in park studies?	11
Invasive plant hitchhikers: Appalachian Trail thru-hiker knowledge and attitudes of invasive plants and leave No trace practices	11
COVID-19 compliance among urban trail users: Behavioral insights and environmental implications	11
Editorial Board	11
Tailoring tourism strategies: Exploring the role of demographics in shaping domestic tourists' perceptions: The case of domestic tourists in Da Nang City, Vietnam	11
The impact of graphic design on attention capture and behavior among outdoor recreationists: Results from an exploratory persuasive signage experiment	11
Editorial Board	10
Understanding coastal zone innovation: The ‘Waterdunen’ project as an ecology of practices	10
Living in an untouchable world: Barriers to recreation and tourism for Portuguese blind people during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
A comparative analysis of the value of recreation in six contrasting Nordic landscapes using the travel cost method	10
Wildlife-based tour operators complying with the principles of responsible tourism: Influence of moral and legal persuasions	10
Monitoring visitor activity and informal trail disturbance in Yosemite Valley meadows to assess temporal changes in use and impacts	10
Understanding vehicle noise as an indicator of soundscape quality in Denali National Park and Preserve	10
Four dimensions of sustainable governance for National Scenic Trails	10
Contemporary issues, opportunities, and resources for the U.S. outdoor recreation profession	10