OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Sciences 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Less Sex, but More Sexual Diversity: Changes in Sexual Behavior during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic	160
Are You OK, Boomer? Intensification of Ageism and Intergenerational Tensions on Social Media Amid COVID-19	95
Promoting Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Social Well-Being during COVID-19	87
Festivals Post Covid-19	67
Distancing from the Present: Nostalgia and Leisure in Lockdown	51
Adventure in the Age of COVID-19: Embracing Microadventures and Locavism in a Post-Pandemic World	49
COVID-19 and its Impact on Volunteering: Moving Towards Virtual Volunteering	49
Queer Isolation or Queering Isolation? Reflecting upon the Ramifications of COVID-19 on the Future of Queer Leisure Spaces	37
Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and COVID-19	34
By Bread Alone: Baking as Leisure, Performance, Sustenance, During the COVID-19 Crisis	34
Gender Differences in Connection to Nature, Outdoor Preferences, and Nature-Based Recreation Among College Students in Brazil and the United States	33
Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism	32
Power and Social Control of Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response Special Issue	30
Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks	27
Pandemic Precarity: Aging and Social Engagement	25
Pandemic Motherhood and the Academy: A Critical Examination of the Leisure-Work Dichotomy	25
What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories	21
“Washing Hands, Reaching Out” – Popular Music, Digital Leisure and Touch during the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
#QuarantineChallenge2k20: Leisure in the Time of the Pandemic	19
Walking Off-Trail in National Parks: Monkey See Monkey Do	19
The Influence of Leisure Engagement on Daily Emotional Well-Being	17
Single Women’s Leisure during the Coronavirus Pandemic	15
Placemaking as Unmaking: Settler Colonialism, Gentrification, and the Myth of “Revitalized” Urban Spaces	15
Biopolitics, Essential Labor, and the Political-Economic Crises of COVID-19	15

Digging Deeper: Engaging in Reflexivity in Interpretivist-Constructivist and Critical Leisure Research	14
The Hogwarts Running Club and Sense of Community: A Netnography of a Virtual Community	14
Sexuality, Sports-Related Mistreatment, and U.S. Adults’ Sports Involvement	13
Leisure Crafting: Scale Development and Validation	13
Work-Leisure Conflict and Well-Being: The Role of Leisure Nostalgia	12
Neighboring in the Time of Coronavirus? Paying Civil Attention While Walking the Neighborhood	12
Social Media as a Pathway to Leisure: Digital Leisure Culture among New Mothers with Young Children in Taiwan	12
Beyond Hypervisibility and Fear: British Chinese Communities’ Leisure and Health-Related Experiences in the Time of Coronavirus	12
Dogs Unleashed: The Positive Role Dogs Play during COVID-19	12
Rainbows, Teddy Bears and ‘Others’: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Leisure Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
On Not Knowing: COVID-19 and Decolonizing Leisure Research	10
A People’s Future of Leisure Studies: Leisure with the Enemy Under COVID-19	10
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	9
Why Don’t We PlayPandemic?Analog Gaming Communities in Lockdown	9
Motivations and Constraints for the Ghost Tourism: A Case Study in Spain	9
Visibility and Vulnerability on Instagram: Negotiating Safety in Women’s Online-Offline Fitness Spaces	9
Chinese Perceptions of Overseas Cultural Heritage: Emotive Existential Authenticity, Exoticism and Experiential Tourism	9
Grit, Leisure Involvement, and Life Satisfaction: A Case of Amateur Triathletes in Japan	8
Self-Determination Strategy in Mountaineering: Collecting Colorado’s Highest Peaks	8
Socially Patterned Strategic Complementarity between Offline Leisure Activities and Internet Practices among Young People	8
Football is “the most important of the least important things”: The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19	8
Promotores for Parks? The Potential of a Public Health Model to Improve Outreach and Community Engagement in Park Planning	8
Not Enough Time? Leisure and Multiple Dimensions of Time Wealth	8
Personality and Subjective Well-Being among Elder Adults: Examining the Mediating Role of Cycling Specialization	8
Rural-Urban Interdependencies: Thinking through the Implications of Space, Leisure, Politics and Health	7
Why Don’t They Travel? The Role of Constraints and Motivation for Non-Participation in Tourism	7
Where Is Leisure When Death Is Present?	7
The Influence of Flow Experience and Serious Leisure on Attachment in Board Game	7
Happiness from Nature? Adolescents’ Conceptions of the Relation between Happiness and Nature in Finland	7
“Try Not to Make Waves”: Managing Gender Discrimination in Outdoor Recreation	7
“If We’re Lost, we Are Lost Together”: Leisure and Relationality	7
Evaluating the Temporal Dynamics of a Structured Experience: Real-Time Skin Conductance and Experience Reconstruction Measures	7
From Displaced to Misplaced: Exploring the Experience of Visitors Who Were ‘Crowded Out’ of Their Recreation Destination	7
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context	6
Capitalism and the (il)Logics of Higher Education’s COVID-19 Response: A Black Feminist Critique	6
Leisure’s Relationships with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Daily Life: An Experience Sampling Approach	6
“Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?”: Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth	6
Storytelling for Mythmaking in Tourist Destinations	6
Crowding, Emotions, Visitor Satisfaction and Loyalty in a Managed Visitor Attraction	6
Going the Extra Mile: Building Trust and Collaborative Relationships with Study Participants	6
Facilitating Disability Sport and Physical Recreation during the Initial Months of COVID-19: Examining Organizational Innovation in Third Sector Organizations	6
Relationship between Leisure Involvement, Voluntary Simplicity, Leisure Satisfaction, and Experiential Consumption	6
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	6
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO₂ Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries	5
Leisure Trips to the Natural Environment: Examining the Tradeoff between Economic and Environmental Impact	5
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	5
Which Attributes Are the Most Important in the Context of the Slow Food Festival?	5
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	5
Leisure Behaviors among Mothers and Fathers in Korean Transnational Split Families	5
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Community Leisure for Low-Income Families: Programs, Policies and Procedures	5

New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process: A Creative Experiment in Cutting Together-Apart	5
Self-Isolated but Not Alone: Community Management Work in the Time of a Pandemic	5
“More Helpful than Hurtful”? Information, Technology, and Uncertainty in Outdoor Recreation	5
Leisure Behind Bars: The Realities of COVID-19 for Youth Connected to the Justice System	5
Social Play? The Critical Role of Social Interaction in Geeky Games	5
The Effects of Risk and Uncertainty Perceptions on Tourists’ Intention to Visit Former Epicenters of COVID-19 Post-Pandemic: Evidence from China	5
Unraveling the Research Process: Humanizing Leisure Scholars	5
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	5