Leisure Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Leisure Studies is 15. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Leisure and cultural change in Israeli society32
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?28
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power27
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing25
The serious leisure perspective – a synthesis25
Using Lego® Serious Play® to explore women’s mental health and physical well-being in semi-elite association football in England23
Correction22
Pondering everyday life: coordination, continuity, and comparison21
Daily struggles and aspirations: exploring the leisure capabilities of working children and adolescents in Turkey21
Military veterans’ motivation and barriers to outdoor recreation participation18
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness18
Exploring how a disability sport charity utilises exchange relationships with external organisations to sustain operations in times of lockdown18
The juggernaut endures: protest, Potemkinism, and Olympic reform17
Identity, belonging, and community in men’s Roller Derby16
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement15
Examining the discursive production and deployment of diversity and inclusion in a UK-wide outdoor organisation15
Disabled animals and leisure: casting light on those left behind in the shadows15
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women15
Arts festivals as polysystems: a case analysis of Morocco music and film festivals15
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