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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	29
Leisure in Extremis : A Festschrift for Karl Spracklen	24
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ^® Serious Play ^® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ	22
The Ambivalence of Ultra Endurance Sports for Athletes’ Partners: Share, Support or Separate Dilemma	22
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	17
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	16
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	15
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	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
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	14
Nexus of Campers’ Experiences: Family Support and Product Involvement Influence Place Dependence, Mediated by Serious Leisure and Co-Production	14
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	14
(de)Parting Thoughts: Leisure at the Edges – A Visualised Essay	13
Making, Unmaking and Remaking Masculinity Through Leisure	13
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	13
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants	12
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts	11
The Limits of AI-Driven Mobility Data in Children’s Leisure Research	11
Special Forces-Style Tourism among Chinese Generation Z: Motivations and Experiences through the Lens of Authenticity Theory	11
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction	10
How Nature-Based Leisure Activities Shape Subjective Well-Being: The Roles of Immersion and Social Context	10
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence	10
How Outdoor Guide Service Quality Influences Tourist Satisfaction: A Chain Mediation Model in Adventure Tourism	10
Moral Foundations, Welcomeness and Belonging, and Visitation to Manassas National Battlefield Park: The Necessity of Nuance for Understanding Interpretive Preferences	10
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	9

Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	9
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities	9
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism	9
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	9
Parting Thoughts XIII	9
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	8
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow	8
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	8
Enjoying the Night’s Splendor: Exploring the Effect of Urban Residents’ Nighttime Leisure Involvement on Subjective Well-Being: Symmetric and Asymmetric Analysis	8
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors	8
“Playing Video Games is How I Unwind”: Qualitative Reports of Gaming Benefits and Detriments in a Community Sample of Adults	8
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown	8
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	8
Navigating Relational Complexity After Wilderness Accidents in Serious Leisure Contexts	7
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	7
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker	7
‘Abide With Me’: being an Insider in the Habermasian lifeworld	7
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	7
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	7
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	7
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography	6
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing	6
Examining Pathways to Camping Access in Rural Western U.S.: An Application of Access Theory	6
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	6
Parting Thoughts XLVIII: “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other”	6
A Multi-Source Data-Based Case Study on the Impact of Environmental Quality Differences on Diurnal-Nocturnal Recreational Vitality of Urban Parks	6
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	6
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain	6
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	6
Milking Meaning: Dairy Farming as Serious Leisure and the Role of Grit	6
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	6
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom	6
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure	6
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	6
More Than a Label: Exploring How a Sport-Based Diversion Program Shapes Identity among Justice-Involved Youth	6
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences	6
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	5
Investigating the Prevalence and Distribution of Sport Fandom	5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	5
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	5
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	5
Serious Leisure, Job Satisfaction, & the Moderating Effect of Job Task Load	5
Understanding Community Green spaces’ Leisure Attractiveness for Older Adults Based on Spatial Heterogeneity	5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	5
The Lacanian Subject at Leisure: Fantasy and Impossibility	5
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	5
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	5
A Conceptual Framework of Smartwatch Usage in Outdoor Recreation Activities: A Topic Modeling and Qualitative Inquiry	5
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	5
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	5

The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	5
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	5
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	5
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	4
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	4
Correction	4
Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities	4
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	4
‘Sauna Is My Nest!’: Sense of Community Among Korean Middle-Aged Women Enjoying Sauna Bathing	4
Racial Residential Segregation and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Prevalence in Chicago, IL	4
The Birding Lifestyle - An Exploration of the Relationships Among Birding Involvement, Motivation and Recreation Specialization	4
Recreation Anglers’ Involvement and Information Sharing Behavior: Mediating Role of Psychological Ownership	4
The Enduring Negotiations of Being and Becoming: An Acknowledgement of Karl Spracklen’s Leadership in Rugby League Scholarship	4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings	4
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	4
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace	4
Leisure Territories and Epistemologies of the South: Social Justice in Dialogue with Karl Spracklen	4
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	4
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	4
Understanding Sex as Leisure Among Transgender Men Using Foucauldian Theorization: Heterotopia, Technologies of Self, and Inversions of Sexual Roles	4
Self-Care as a Mediator of Leisure Awareness, Psychological Well-Being, and Quality of Life in Iranian Youth	4
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips	4
Dry and Outside: The Rise of Sober Outdoor Recreation Experiences	4