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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	18
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	18
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	17
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ^® Serious Play ^® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ	15
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	15
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	15
"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	14
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	14
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	14
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	13
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	13
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences	13
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants	12
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	12
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence	12
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism	11
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	11
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities	11
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	11
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities	11
Which Attributes Are the Most Important in the Context of the Slow Food Festival?	10
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction	10
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	10
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts	10
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	9

Parting Thoughts III	9
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	9
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	9
Parting Thoughts XIII	9
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown	8
New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process: A Creative Experiment in Cutting Together-Apart	8
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation	8
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	8
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	8
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker	8
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	8
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	8
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors	8
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow	8
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain	7
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure	7
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	7
Evaluating the Temporal Dynamics of a Structured Experience: Real-Time Skin Conductance and Experience Reconstruction Measures	7
Parting Thoughts IV	7
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography	7
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	7
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences	7
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	7
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	7
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	6
Shifting Our Perspective of the Meaning of a “Lost Summer”	6
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom	6
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	6
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	6
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing	6
Parting Thoughts IX	6
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	6
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	6
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	5
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	5
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	5
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	5
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	5
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers	5
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	5
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	5
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	4
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	4
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	4
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure	4
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response	4
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	4
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	4

Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	4
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	4
Parting Thoughts VI	4
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	4
Correction	4
Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities	4
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	4
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings	4
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips	4
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace	4