OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Sciences is 3. 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
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	17
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	16
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	16
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	14
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ^® Serious Play ^® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ	14
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	13
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity	13
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	13
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	13
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	13
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences	13
"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	13
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	12
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism	11
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence	11
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting	11
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities	10
Which Attributes Are the Most Important in the Context of the Slow Food Festival?	9
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes	9
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities	9
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown	8
Parting Thoughts III	8
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance	8
Parting Thoughts XIII	8
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China	8

The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies	8
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse	8
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts	8
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction	8
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China	8
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain	7
New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process: A Creative Experiment in Cutting Together-Apart	7
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker	7
Parting Thoughts IV	7
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults	7
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow	7
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation	7
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”	7
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis	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
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework	6
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure	6
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds	6
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences	6
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation	6
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan	5
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?	5
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours	5
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System	5
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom	5
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism	5
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions	5
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers	5
Evaluating the Temporal Dynamics of a Structured Experience: Real-Time Skin Conductance and Experience Reconstruction Measures	5
Parting Thoughts IX	5
Shifting Our Perspective of the Meaning of a “Lost Summer”	5
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	5
Parting Thoughts II	4
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	4
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	4
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	4
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	4
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	4
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty	4
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion	4
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	4
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	4
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	4
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective	4
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	4
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	4
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	4
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment	3
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace	3

Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection	3
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging	3
Understanding Birdwatching Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory	3
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings	3
Neighborhood Commercial Circle Environmental Factors for Generation Z Visitors: Scale Development and Validation	3
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure	3
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming	3
Spinning Fast Without Falling: Women’s Embodied Empowerment Through Roller Derby	3
Parting Thoughts VI	3
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips	3
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response	3
Correction	3
Our Park, Our Community: Exploring Psychological Ownership in Public Open Spaces	3
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City	3