OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Sciences is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	25
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	23
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	19
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	19
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	18
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ^® Serious Play ^® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ	17
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	16
"É nossa, é Do Brasil Inteiro” (It’s Ours, It’s for the Whole of Brazil”): Football, The Yellow Shirt, National Politics, and Conjunctural Contestation	15
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	14
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	14
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	14
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	14
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants	14
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence	13
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences	13
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities	13
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction	13
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	12
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism	12
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities	12
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts	12
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	12
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	11
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	11
Parting Thoughts XIII	11

Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	10
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	10
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	10
Enjoying the Night’s Splendor: Exploring the Effect of Urban Residents’ Nighttime Leisure Involvement on Subjective Well-Being: Symmetric and Asymmetric Analysis	10
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	9
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors	9
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation	9
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker	9
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	9
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain	8
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown	8
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	8
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	8
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure	8
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing	8
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow	8
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography	8
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	8
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences	7
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	7
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	7
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	7
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	7
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers	7
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom	7
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	7
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	7
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	6
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	6
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	6
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	6
Shifting Our Perspective of the Meaning of a “Lost Summer”	6
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	6
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	6
Parting Thoughts IX	6
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	5
Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities	5
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	5
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	5
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	5
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	5
Investigating the Prevalence and Distribution of Sport Fandom	5
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	5
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	5
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	5
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	5
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response	4
Parting Thoughts VI	4

Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming	4
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure	4
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging	4
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	4
‘Sauna Is My Nest!’: Sense of Community Among Korean Middle-Aged Women Enjoying Sauna Bathing	4
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings	4
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	4
Spinning Fast Without Falling: Women’s Embodied Empowerment Through Roller Derby	4
Racial Residential Segregation and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Prevalence in Chicago, IL	4
Understanding Sex as Leisure Among Transgender Men Using Foucauldian Theorization: Heterotopia, Technologies of Self, and Inversions of Sexual Roles	4
Correction	4
Dry and Outside: The Rise of Sober Outdoor Recreation Experiences	4
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace	4
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips	4