OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Leisure Research is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	34
Women’s cycling rides: Collective pathways to optimal experience	32
Phenomenological exploration of young adults’ recreational cannabis use experiences and associated leisure meanings	24
Co-creating family-inclusive leisure experiences: A study of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house	20
Landscape attributes as stimuli for cognitive restoration in the outdoor environment: A systematic review and thematic analysis	16
Interrelationships among parental play belief, household playfulness, school play behaviors, and social competence of kindergarten children	15
Meanings of traditional Chinese leisure: Perspectives from etymology, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism	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
“We do revolve our lives around it” – The meaning and significance of being a collegiate women’s basketball fan among older women	13
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”	13
Leveraging regional Senior Games for older adults’ participation in sport and leisure-time physical activity: The event organizers’ perspective	12
Developing the Experience Impact Scale: A qualitative study using a study abroad and international internship program	12
Leisure satisfaction and quality of life of residents in Ningbo, China	11
Examining the relationships between mindfulness, eudaimonic and hedonic experiences, place attachment, loyalty: the moderating role of flow	10
Use of social media before, during and after family trips	10
The impact of outdoor therapeutic recreation on suicidality: A mixed-method systematic review	10
Comparing summer camp to other summertime settings: An explanatory-sequential mixed-methods study	9
Leisure and China in the global context: Introduction to the special issue	9
The Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS): Preliminary evidence of reliability and validity	9
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
Valuing nature-based recreation in forest areas in Italy: An application of Travel Cost Method (TCM)	8

Sense of community in roller derby	8
How tourism decision-making and on-site interactions promote family benefits: A power perspective	8
Finding flow in pandemic times: Leisure opportunities for optimal experience and positive mental health among Italian university students	8
Transition to a new baby: Exploring the association between couple leisure, coparenting and parenting practices	8
The stimulus-organism-response approach to the overcrowding problem: Qualitative evidence from theme park visitors	7
“The forest is my church”: Spirituality and the trail to recovery	7
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	6
Challenges of ecological momentary assessments to study family leisure: Participants’ perspectives	6
Promoting on-going participation in group fitness among older adults: An application of the Psychological Continuum Model	6
The legacy of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for leisure studies: An introduction to this special ‘tribute’ issue	6
Unlocking the power of leisure: Associations between leisure activity and social integration of family and individual migrants	6
Investigating the role of family travel and family functioning in promoting Chinese adolescents’ subjective wellbeing	5
Wildland encounter norms across time and activity type: Stable preferences and shifting thresholds	5
The effect of pandemic-related stress on the decision-making process for individual outdoor leisure activities	5
Examining basic psychological need frustration’s relevance to leisure: A case of Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Cribbage culture and social worlds: An analysis of closeness, inclusiveness, and specialization	5
Experiential factors predicting the short-term impact of a museum visit	5
Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex”	5
Comparison of reported outdoor activities in Florida State Parks among three fitness tracker apps	5
Exploring inclusivity in travel and leisure: Insights from Filipino Muslim families	5
The unity of body and mind: the integration of leisure and religious practices by rural older women in the Chaoshan area of China	5
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