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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach	16
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All	14
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel	13
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns	13
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt	13
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship	12
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout	11
Physical Accessibility of Integrated Resort Facilities to Older Adults: Linking Perceived Facilitators, Constraints, and Universal Design Principles	10
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea	10
Leisure and Human Rights … or Social Justice?	10
The Effect of Centrality to Lifestyle and Experience-Involvement on Tourist Behavioral Intention: A Comparison of Hotel vs Hostel	9
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China	9
Leisure in the Garden of Forking Paths	9
Measuring Social Connectedness during Shared Leisure Activities Using Oxytocin: A Comparison of Sampling Urine versus Saliva	8
Family Vacation and Child’s Life Satisfaction: An Analysis of 2009-2010 U.S. Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Survey	8
The Downward Spiral of Fear of Failure in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Practitioners	8
The Relationship between Measured Visitor Density and Perceived Crowding Revisited: Predicting Perceived Crowding in Outdoor Recreation	8
Tourists as Experience Collectors: A New Travelling Mind-Set	8
How Do Urban Nature Parks Contribute to Psychological Restoration? The Perspective of Embodied Experience	8
Neoliberalism and Its (Leisure) Discontents	8
Parting Thoughts XII: Fenton Litwiller	8
Together-in-Time	7
“That Was My Power”: The Value of Physical Exercise for Migrant Women Managing Marital Breakdown	7
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene	7
Tourism Discourse and Surveillance: Situational Analysis of Post-Katrina New Orleans	7

Happy Orphans? The Effect of Leisure Activities on Life Satisfaction	7
Carving Lines through Melting Lands: A Diffractive Engagement with Troubled and Troubling Relations of Alpine Skiing in the Anthropocene	7
Correction	6
Volunteers’ Sense of (Dis)Connection at a Sport Event	6
Sport Participation and the Development of Grit	6
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mindset of Fitness and Its Role in Elevating Children’s Leisure-Time Physical Activity	6
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”	6
Using Study Abroad Memories in Everyday Life: Insights from the Functional Approach to Autobiographical Memory	6
The Role of Facilitators in the Constraint Negotiation of Leisure-Time Physical Activity	6
Blossoming: Finding a New Identity after the Loss of a Spouse	6
A Beautiful Game: Interpreting Football Videogame Experiences	6
Social Infrastructure: Directions for Leisure Studies	6
Parting Thoughts XXVI: Leisure, Loss, and Death	6
Perceived Quality and Organizational Support for Enhancing Volunteers’ Leisure Satisfaction and Civic Engagement: A Case of the 2020 Super Bowl	5
Modeling Residents’ WOM Behavior Toward Tourism Through Altruism and the Theory of Reasoned Action	5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry	5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model	5
The Relationships between Leisure Time, Perceived Stress and Subjective Well-Being in Young and Middle-Aged Working Adults in China	5
Playing Board Games to Increase Emotional Competencies in School-Age Children and Older People: A Systematic Review	5
Social Activities Mediate the Relation between Fandom Identification and Psychological Well-Being	5
Digital Leisure among Older Adults: Connections to Social Support, Flow, and Social Inclusion	5
Pleasant Anticipation of an After-Work Free-Time Activity and Work Engagement: Findings from Two Studies	5
Tourists at Work: Outstation Leisure Behavior of Airline Cabin Crew	5
A Phenomenological Exploration of the Intersectionality of Body Image and Identity of Female Rugby Players	5
How Does Generative AI Relate to Leisure Satisfaction and Awareness?	4
Understanding the Outcomes of Associational Involvement in Football Fan Clubs: Assessing the Validity of Socialization and Selection Hypotheses	4
College Students’ Healthy Leisure: Latent Profile Analyses of Constraints and Negotiation Strategies	4
Development and Validation of an Attitude Measure in Open Water Activities	4
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO₂ Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries	4
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies	4
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore	4
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective	4
"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	4
Relationships of Social Support and Activity Attachment with Purpose in Life among Older Forest Bathers: A Mediated Model	4
Young Adults’ Acceptance of Later-Life Sexuality Is Predicted by Their General Sexual Attitudes and Viewing Sex as Leisure	4
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure	4
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)	3
Leisure Constraints and Negotiation among Canadian and South Korean Mountain Hikers: An Extension of Motivations with the Constraints-Effect-Mitigation Model	3
Statement of Removal	3
Setting Our Sights on Vision: A Rationale and Research Agenda for Integrating Eye-Tracking into Leisure Research	3
Parting Thoughts II	3
Glocalizing Action in the Anthropocene: Understanding the Potential Roles of Sport for Development and Peace	3
How Do Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of an Urban Greenway Influence Residents’ Visits and Recreational Physical Activity? Evidence From the Connswater Community Greenway, Belfast, Northern	3
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study	3
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences	3
The Power of Community: A Leisure-Based Approach to Postvention	3
Exploring Peace within the Cognitive-Affective Structure of the Destination Image of Glacier National Park	3
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport	3
“A Room of One’s Own”: Transnational Leisure in Public Spaces—The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong	3
Polish Family Leisure: Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP)	3

Parting Thoughts	3
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Leisure and Academics of Chinese International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families	3
Couple Vacations: Linking Joint Vacation Experiences of Romantic Couples to Satisfaction with Relationship Life	3
Development of an Indicator System for Evaluating Risks in Trekking Tourism	3