OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Studies is 5. 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
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience	37
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause	31
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil	29
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches	25
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces	24
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing	23
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations	23
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women	21
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness	21
Pondering everyday life: coordination, continuity, and comparison	20
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats	20
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment	19
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	18
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?	18
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns	17
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance	16
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research	16
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India	16
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure	15
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?	14
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport	14
The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response	14
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure	14
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places	13
Skateboard video: archiving the city from below	13

‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy	13
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting	13
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants	13
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model	13
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands	12
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’	12
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey	11
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children	11
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival	11
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety	11
City of courts: excavating the future in West Los Angeles	10
‘I drew myself playing football with the clouds and the sun’: qualitative research methods to explore children’s leisure experiences in disadvantaged contexts of less economically developed countries	10
Of companionship, curfew, and conflict: multispecies leisure in the age of COVID	10
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers	10
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective	10
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach	9
Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events by Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, and	9
Doom-mongers beware: an analysis of the health of leisure studies	9
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram	9
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation	9
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children	9
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues	9
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape	9
Analysing family conversations and interactions during visits to Parque das Aves (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil) from children’s perspective	9
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy	9
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour	9
Mountain biking as a prism: a review of ‘mountain biking, culture and society’	9
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure	9
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance	8
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn	8
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players	8
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people	8
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory	8
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury	8
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices	8
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction	8
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society	7
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies	7
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres	7
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Enhancing age-friendly cities and communities through culturally responsive leisure: recommendations from older black lesbians	7
Aesthetic capital as a work strategy among precarious migrant coaches in China’s leisure industry	7
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals	7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	6
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China	6
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’	6
Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review	6
From serious leisure to passionate pastime: expanding the conceptual landscape	6
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations	6
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach	6

Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league	6
Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory	6
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability	6
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view	6
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power	6
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces	6
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	6
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers	6
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance	6
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey	6
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred	6
Exploring the experience of natural green space among South Asian Muslim people in the UK	5
Gender, sport and society: an introduction	5
The work spouse: a hidden influence agent in personal and household leisure decision-making	5
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences	5
Higher recreation specialisation is related to higher media engagement but not to reduced outdoor activity in birders	5
‘Roleplaying as two straight bros going to a game’: LGBTQ2S+ spectators’ experiences at NHL arenas	5
Leveraging cultural eventscape design experience to realise women empowerment: a social entrepreneurship perspective	5
Leisure and everyday life with dementia	5
Armchair travel through video games: stories from elsewheres and elsewhens	5
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting	5
Does digital leisure relate to subjective well-being in later life? Examining roles of enjoyment, social support, and capitalisation	5
An exploration of physical activity, migrant women and leisure experiences	5
Musician emotional wellbeing during the pandemic: assessing the impact of external factors, positive life outlook and socio-demographics	5