OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Manage 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	51
Heterogeneity in trips to green natural spaces: A travel cost approach across UK sites	48
Eye-catching or breath-catching: Role and landscape attributes of pauses differs among hikers’ profile when rambling in a French mountainous area	46
Re-thinking the nature of decision making in outdoor extreme situations: Lessons from Britain's National Three Peaks Challenge	40
Mapping the excess demand for recreation in Northern Ireland to inform land use policy	36
Perceptions of social and ecological change at the Bonneville Salt Flats	35
Research note: The impact of advanced information communication technologies on visitor acceptance of forest management in response to emerald ash borer	35
Exploring the avalanche bulletin as an avenue for continuing education by including learning interventions	34
Research note: An evaluation of potential locations for the Bears Ears National Monument cultural center	34
Self-assessment of riding skills and perception of trail difficulty in mountain biking - An investigation within the German-speaking mountain biking community	33
Find the one you like! Profiling Swiss parks with user generated content	33
Ecotourism and COVID-19: Impact on the efficiency of the Spanish hospitality industry	31
The impact of graphic design on attention capture and behavior among outdoor recreationists: Results from an exploratory persuasive signage experiment	26
What climbing means…	26
Weather conditions and ski resorts’ vitality: Linear and non-linear effects	25
Leisure constraint and mental health: The case of park users in Ningbo, China	25
Been there, done that? Effects of centrality-to-lifestyle and experience use history on angling tourists’ loyalty to a Swedish salmon fishery	25
Clustering marine wildlife voluntourism to evaluate its potential for southern Africa and beyond	24
Understanding spatial inequities in urban neighborhood park services: A mixed method study in Taiwan	24
Successful camping operators: Performance measurement using cluster analysis and DEA methods.	22
Sustainable recreation and tourism: Making sense of diverse conceptualizations and management paradigms	20
The impact of recreational activities on species at risk in Canada	20
How tourism research integrates environmental issues? A keyword network analysis	20
Doubles, drops and ditches: Deconstructing the art of the mountain bike trail-builder	19
Ecological Footprint and tourism: Development and sustainability monitoring of ecotourism packages in Mediterranean Protected Areas	19

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act at 50: Managers’ views of actions, barriers and partnerships	19
Managing conflict by mapping stakeholders’ views on ecotourism development using statement and place Q methodology	18
Exploring the relationship between sport demand's key players and environmental sustainability: Pointers from a systematic review	18
Use of social media data, online reviews and wikipedia page views to measure visitation patterns of outdoor attractions	17
Building a narcissism-based framework of picnics: An eastern culture perspective	17
Trail morphology and impacts to soil induced by a small mountain bike race series	17
Book Review	17
Enhancing recreational activities through planting design in neighborhood parks	17
Biking-hiking conflicts and their mitigation in urban recreation areas: Results of a quasi-experimental long-term evaluation in the Zurich forest	16
How important is air quality in travel decision-making?	16
Defining contemporary outdoor physical activity: A critical interpretive synthesis	15
Measuring belongingness in outdoor orientation programs	15
Participatory development and management of eco-cultural trails in sustainable tourism destinations	15
Beneath the lens: Exploring the impacts of underwater photographers in marine-based tourism	15
Measuring the human-dimension of outdoor recreation and its impacts on terrestrial wildlife	15
Perceived risk and destination knowledge in the satisfaction-loyalty intention relationship: An empirical study of european tourists in vietnam	15
The cognitive and conative image in insular marine protected areas: A study from Galapagos, Ecuador	14
Climate change and winter outdoor activities in Austria	14
When you walk the trail, you start to fantasize about food, right? Teleologies and understandings of hikers’ meal practices while hiking in Arctic Sweden	14
Bridging information gaps: A rapid assessment of cetacean watching tourism in Sri Lanka	14
Thru-hikers’ attitudes about potential management actions for interactions with grizzly bears along the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail	14
Outdoor recreationists’ engagement with weather: The weather-outdoor recreation process model	14
Protected area management effectiveness and COVID-19: The case of Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia	14
Research note: Ski touring on groomed slopes and the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential trigger for motivational changes	14
The nature of the pandemic: Exploring the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic upon recreation visitor behaviors and experiences in parks and protected areas	14
Destination image of Chitwan National Park, Nepal: Insights from a content analysis of online photographs	14
Place meanings and national parks: A rhetorical analysis of social media texts	13
Invasive plant hitchhikers: Appalachian Trail thru-hiker knowledge and attitudes of invasive plants and leave No trace practices	13
What's the crux? Falcon nesting closures and rock climbing constraints at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park	13
“If we really disturbed them, they would leave”: Mountain sports participants and wildlife disturbance in the northern French Alps	13
Assessment of forest visitors’ route preferences – Impact encounters across a range of forest environments	13
Employees’ experiences of outdoor adventure training on psychological capital and wellbeing: A mixed methods case study	13
Exploring a structured framework for camping sleep experience	12
Visitation patterns in a peri-urban natural park: Comparing mountain bikers, runners, walkers and hikers	12
Thinking big: The role of mega trails in creating meaning and sense of place to conserve large landscapes	12
Community-based ecotourism as a social transformation tool for rural community: A victory or a quagmire?	12
Designing for human-nature connectedness: A case study of the Barefoot Path Spalt, Germany	12
Environmental and social impacts of shifting park-use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from state and local park managers	12
Exploring tourists' motivations, constraints, and negotiations regarding outdoor recreation trips during COVID-19 through a focus group study	11
Motivations as a predictor of satisfaction and loyalty in ecotourism	11
Editorial Board	10
Tangible or intangible satisfiers? Comparative study of visitor satisfaction in a nature-based tourism destination in the pre- and during-COVID pandemic	10
Editorial: Introduction to sustainably managing outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism as social-ecological complex adaptive systems	10
Fitness tests as predictors of physical exertion on graded hiking trails	10
Climate change-induced droughts and tourism: Impacts and responses of Western Cape province, South Africa	10
Editorial Board	10
When the mountains call: Exploring mountaineering motivations through the lens of the calling theory	10
Snowmobile effects on height and live stem abundance of wetland shrubs in south-central Alaska	9
Policy factors influencing the establishment of state outdoor recreation offices	9
Terrain park participants’ perceptions of contributing factors in injury events and risk management suggestions	9

In what context do scholars differentiate recreation and tourism in park studies?	9
Editorial Board	9
Tourism and climate change – An integrated look at the Austrian case	9
Confidence, community & conservation: Exploring the relationship between self-efficacy and experience in female hunters	8
The effectiveness of information signs in deterring visitor vandalism	8
Acceptability and appeal: How visitors’ perceptions of sounds can contribute to shared learning and transdisciplinary protected area governance	8
DANGER! NO HIKING! Risky hiking decisions, framing of normative warning messages, and self-exempting beliefs	8
Socio-ecological and economic evaluation of urban parks - A methodology integrating and articulating diverse components	8
Snapshots of nature: Harnessing Flickr data to frame sustainable brand positioning strategies for Thailand's national parks	8
Visitors’ relations to recreational facilities and attractions in a large vulnerable mountain region in Norway: Unpacking the roles of tourists and locals	8
Domestic tourists’ experience in protected natural parks: A new trend in pandemic crisis?	8
Tourism and climate change – A discussion of suitable strategies for Austria	8
Scoping the lines: Assessing the mountain biking research terrain and calling for a holistic scholarship agenda	8
Integrating recreation into National Forest Inventories – Results from a forest visitor survey in winter and summer	8
The role of brand associations on the development of place attachment into outdoor adventure tourism destinations	8
COVID-19 compliance among urban trail users: Behavioral insights and environmental implications	8
Tourists' assessment of economic value, benefits and negative impacts of pedestrian walkways: Case-studies of the Paiva River (Arouca) and the Mondego River (Guarda) in Portugal	8
Linking visitor perceptions and behaviours related to ticks and lyme disease to risk management strategies in a protected areas context	7
Sea swimming and snorkeling in tropical coastal blue spaces and mental well-being: Findings from Indonesian island communities during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Economic impact analysis of nature tourism in protected areas: Towards an adaptation to international standards in German protected areas	7
Not seeing the wood for the (invasive) trees: Visitors’ perceptions of invasive wilding conifers in the New Zealand landscape	7
Perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices associated with open water swimming	7
Thinking like a system in the turbulent world of outdoor recreation management	7
The practice of (un)sustainable tourism in a National Park: An empirical study focusing on structural elements	7
Estimating encounter probabilities among recreational trail user groups	7
Exploring the attitudes and experiences of those living near a multipurpose recreation trail in the southern United States	7
Carbon intensity of tourism in Austria: Estimates and policy implications	7
National forest park visitors’ connectedness to nature and pro-environmental behavior: The effects of cultural ecosystem service, place and event attachment	7
Nature-based tourism development in coastal wetlands of Sri Lanka: An Importance–Performance analysis at Maduganga Mangrove Estuary	7
Idealizing adventure tourism experiences: tourists’ self-assessment and expectations	7