OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Leisure Research is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“White-Savior Industrial Complex” in leisure studies: A response to Anderson, Knee, & Mowatt	35
A national longitudinal study examining social-emotional benefits of summer camp for early adolescents: Effects of attendance, dosage, and experience quality	35
Women’s cycling rides: Collective pathways to optimal experience	34
Phenomenological exploration of young adults’ recreational cannabis use experiences and associated leisure meanings	22
Meanings of traditional Chinese leisure: Perspectives from etymology, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism	17
Landscape attributes as stimuli for cognitive restoration in the outdoor environment: A systematic review and thematic analysis	15
Co-creating family-inclusive leisure experiences: A study of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house	15
Interrelationships among parental play belief, household playfulness, school play behaviors, and social competence of kindergarten children	15
“We do revolve our lives around it” – The meaning and significance of being a collegiate women’s basketball fan among older women	14
Evaluating diversity, equity, and inclusivity in outdoor programs for veterans on public lands	14
It is more than fun and making friends: Social leisure and leisure experiences of Taiwanese urban women	14
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being	13
Exploring the link between runners’ involvement and well-being using the psychological continuum model	13
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”	12
Developing the Experience Impact Scale: A qualitative study using a study abroad and international internship program	11
Leveraging regional Senior Games for older adults’ participation in sport and leisure-time physical activity: The event organizers’ perspective	11
Examining the relationships between mindfulness, eudaimonic and hedonic experiences, place attachment, loyalty: the moderating role of flow	10
The impact of outdoor therapeutic recreation on suicidality: A mixed-method systematic review	9
Valuing nature-based recreation in forest areas in Italy: An application of Travel Cost Method (TCM)	9
How tourism decision-making and on-site interactions promote family benefits: A power perspective	9
Comparing summer camp to other summertime settings: An explanatory-sequential mixed-methods study	9
Transition to a new baby: Exploring the association between couple leisure, coparenting and parenting practices	9
Use of social media before, during and after family trips	9
The Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS): Preliminary evidence of reliability and validity	9
Sense of community in roller derby	9

Finding flow in pandemic times: Leisure opportunities for optimal experience and positive mental health among Italian university students	8
“The forest is my church”: Spirituality and the trail to recovery	8
Ascending past constraints through immersion into the social worlds of climbing gyms	8
Game on or game over? A cross-sectional study of factors impacting sport-active and sport-inactive Australian adults	8
Category versus labeled magnitude scale measures of immediate conscious leisure experiences: Engagement, immersion, and absorption	7
Examining the long-term effect of leisure engagement, leisure satisfaction, and perceived discrimination on stress perception among Koreans with physical disabilities	7
Challenges of ecological momentary assessments to study family leisure: Participants’ perspectives	7
The stimulus-organism-response approach to the overcrowding problem: Qualitative evidence from theme park visitors	7
The legacy of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for leisure studies: An introduction to this special ‘tribute’ issue	7
Unlocking the power of leisure: Associations between leisure activity and social integration of family and individual migrants	7
Exploring inclusivity in travel and leisure: Insights from Filipino Muslim families	7
Experiential factors predicting the short-term impact of a museum visit	6
Cribbage culture and social worlds: An analysis of closeness, inclusiveness, and specialization	6
The unity of body and mind: the integration of leisure and religious practices by rural older women in the Chaoshan area of China	6
Wildland encounter norms across time and activity type: Stable preferences and shifting thresholds	6
A music community, 10 years later	6
How do fan engagement and sport participation influence adaptation to campus and life satisfaction? A Comparison between American domestic and Asian international students	5
It’s both experience and context, and that’s just leisure	5
Reflections on altruism, action, and “moral imagination” in the context of the White Savior	5
The effect of pandemic-related stress on the decision-making process for individual outdoor leisure activities	5
Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex”	5
Sexual leisure and profiles of coping with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sex life: Using cluster analysis approach	5
Comparison of reported outdoor activities in Florida State Parks among three fitness tracker apps	5
Examining basic psychological need frustration’s relevance to leisure: A case of Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Study on the role and internal mechanism of corporate leisure welfare in alleviating employee burnout	5
Where have all the children gone? A review of the presence of children under 6 years in leisure publication outlets	5
Perceived ownership of urban parks: The role of the social environment	4
‘This was like some Little House on the Prairie shit’: The intensive care(work) of making PPE during COVID-19	4
Gratitude mediates the relationship between leisure social support and loneliness among first-year university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan	4
Introduction to theme issue on leisure across the life course	4
Participation in extracurricular leisure activities among primary school pupils: Effects of ethnic-cultural background, gender and school diversity	4
A gender perspective analysis of Chinese nationals’ leisure time allocation: Family life cycle versus demographic determinants	4
Impact of COVID-19 on vacation recreational walking: Evidence from an urban coastal destination	4
The mediating role of passion in the relationship between serious leisure and well-being among university sport club participants	4
Leisure, eudaimonic behavior, physical activity and well-being of older adults	4
Turn off to tune in: Digital disconnection, digital consciousness, and meaningful leisure	4
Flow as a catalyst for positive youth development	3
U.S. wilderness in the 21st century: A scoping review of wilderness visitor use management research from 2000 to 2020	3
The discourse article: Critical examinations of timely topics in leisure research	3
Evolving domestic tourism destination preferences post-apartheid	3
Hybrid habitats: Remediating leisure, space and youth throughPokémon Goin India	3
Constructing a Conspicuous Leisure Behavior Scale	3
Programming parks. How do organized events and activities affect the inclusivity of urban green spaces?	3
COVID-19, mobility, leisure, and travel around the world	3
Social capital and successful aging among senior park golfers	3
Developing an instrument to assess the satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs during the leisure activity of birdwatching (Birding-BPNSF)	3
Stress, anxiety, leisure changes, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Recreation and sport programs for social-emotional development among socially vulnerable youth	3
Toward a more integrated understanding of young children’s family leisure experiences: The intersection of attachment theory and family leisure	3
Chan summer camp templestay as an educational leisure and tourism activity in China: Learning process and spiritual outcomes	3

When the arts are not your cup of tea: Participation frequency and experience in cultural activities	3
Who visits U.S. national parks (and who doesn’t)? A national study of perceived constraints and vacation preferences across diverse populations	3
Introduction to theme issue on leisure and COVID-19	3
Travel patterns and multi-destinations of visitors: Toward marine park management strategies	2
Grandparent couples’ experiences of family leisure	2
Esports gender diversity: A leisure constraints perspective	2
Remaining relevant, visible and vibrant: Embracing experience	2
Videogaming as stress coping in NCAA Division III student-athletes during the pandemic: An exploratory analysis	2
Birding recreation specialization – A test of the factorial invariance in eight languages	2
Development and properties of the parental support of leisure exploration measure	2
Regional disparities in green space access and associations with adult obesity: An urban–rural comparison in Florida	2
College-attending emerging adults’ free time perception profiles: Relationships with well-being and identity development	2
The role of past campus recreational sports participation in predicting students’ stress and competence during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
“Just shut out the world”: Bullied adolescents’ structured recreational and sports activities and their relationship to wellbeing and friendship	2
Opera as personal heritage in tourism	2
Deconstructing serious leisure using identity theory	2
Introduction to theme issue on leisure and the family	2
Hiking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Demographic and visitor group factors associated with public health compliance	2
How real is virtual? Comparing the experience of a theme park attraction with its virtual counterpart	2
I felt like I was in a story: Narrative transportation as a leisure experience	2
Identifying leisure education topics for university student well-being: A Delphi study	2
Do working hours affect artistic and cultural participation? Evidence from Korea considering cultural genre and skill level	2
Development and validation of a scale measuring public perceptions of racial environmental justice in parks	2
Context-free and work-related benefits of a leisure crafting intervention: A randomized controlled trial	2
The mediating role of sport-specific PERMA in the relationship between physical activity/passive sport and global well-being/loneliness	2
“We have our own cultural ways of being in nature”: New perspectives on African Americans’ relationships to U.S. National Parks	2
The effects of health beliefs upon nature-based tourism during COVID-19: Cases from the United States and South Korea	2