OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leisure Studies is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil	51
Women, leisure and tourism. Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience	48
Making sense of the intersubjective structure of homeworld/alienworld to examine the lifeworld of leisure volunteers during Covid 19	43
A critical review of multispecies research design in tourism and leisure research	36
Promoting health through a non-competitive after-school sports programme: insights from schoolchildren and coaches	34
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces	32
Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats	32
Leaving pets at home while travelling: AI usage in pet care, emotions, and tourist experiences	29
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women	27
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness	26
Leisure and self-care for Dalit women in India	26
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause	24
My dice is rubbed like this: assessing the leisure experiences of scratch-off lottery tickets by China’s younger generations	24
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing	23
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys	23
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance	22
‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: improving young people’s well-being and education through surf therapy	22
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places	20
“The climate crisis is violence:” sexual and gender-based violence and bicycles for mobility justice and development in Nicaragua ¹	18
Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready?	17
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure	17
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting	17
The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response	17
Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model	17
Flying high and breaking stigma: a social identity perspective on Chinese frisbee participants	17

Family coaching: a qualitative examination of an intervention to assist children’s and adolescents’ leisure-time physical activity	17
Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure	16
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns	15
A mixed-methods study for understanding the motives of trans persons’ participation in leisure-time physical activity and sport	14
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’	14
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands	13
Does spatial context of Third Place matter? Revisiting the Third Place concept based on user preferences: case of Kolkata, India	13
Gender is not enough: rethinking the construct in leisure research	13
Routledge handbook of mobile technology, social media and the outdoors	13
Digital sovereignty and leisure: Bluesky as an alternative to X’s suspension in Brazil	11
Snowboarding while Black: race, aesthetics, and Jamaican migrant workers	11
The end of the trail: discontinuing a community hiking programme	11
A new theory for a new leisure class: violent and verdant: systemic injustice in public parks in the US	11
City of courts: excavating the future in West Los Angeles	11
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective	11
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children	10
A case study exploring gender and leisure at a Community men’s shed in the U.S	10
Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events Festivals & the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events by Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, and	10
Esports development ecosystem in Hong Kong: an application of a systems thinking literacy approach	10
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey	10
Dystopian leisure? A post-qualitative inquiry on the polluted and (un)safe leisure spaces of Roma children	10
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram	10
‘Tomorrowland’: identity construction and expression through flags and costumes in a music festival	10
Childhoods & leisure: cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues	10
Working patterns, leisure dynamics, and energy consumption: a time-use analysis for Italy	10
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance	9
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation	9
Financialising leisure: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), collectables and commodification without limit	9
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure	9
Inclusion and equity in outdoor leisure: whose body belongs?	9
Mountain biking as a prism: a review of ‘mountain biking, culture and society’	9
Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn	9
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour	9
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury	9
Understanding the experiences of virtual race participants through the lens of mindfulness theory	8
Children’s accounts of parental influence on leisure choices	8
Slime bikes? The polluted leisure of micromobility hire schemes in London	8
Aesthetic capital as a work strategy among precarious migrant coaches in China’s leisure industry	8
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals	8
Understanding human capacity and challenges for the transfer of community sport assets	8
‘Why is generation Z crazy about leisure?’ Understanding leisure motivations among South Korean generation Z: a Q methodology study	8
Enhancing age-friendly cities and communities through culturally responsive leisure: recommendations from older Black lesbians	8
Do the Olympic values influence the social capital and the in-game commitment? A case study of esports players	8
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction	8
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies	8
Skateboarding, Power and Change	8
Effect of performance on social identification in serious leisure activities: two studies of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers	8
The cue is in the queue, smart! Assessing the ritualised leisure experiences of long queuing for a bubble tea brand in China	7
Holding the fish herself: women anglers and gendered power relations in Swedish recreational fishing	7
Sport, leadership, and social inclusion	7

Food day-trippers’ perceptions of regional food destination attractiveness: an application of distance decay theory	7
Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres	7
Visitor and spatial heterogeneity in the uses of urban parks: evidence from mobile signaling data	7
Consuming atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces	7
More is better? Family leisure involvement and individual leisure satisfaction among Chinese adult workers	7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment	7
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society	7
Paradigm transformation, practical applications, and future prospects of leisure studies based on agent-based modeling	7
Insight into the formation of Chinese tourist behavioural intentions: a cognitive approach	7
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’	7
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance	6
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred	6
Sport and Power: hard power, soft power and smart power	6
The gamified life: corporate gamification, simulation of play, and the reappropriation of leisure	6
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league	6
Becoming-with in animal leisure: working dog search training as human and nonhuman intra-actions	6
Different ways to craft and use social media in crafting	6
Finding the right balance: youths’ perspectives on parental involvement in dance	6
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations	6
The digital superego at play: how platform logic transforms a traditional leisure practice into self-surveillance	6
Revisiting modern campuses through spaces for leisure in Izmir, Turkey	6
Exploring the lived experience associated with fan-made goods: a serious leisure perspective	6
Leisure and everyday life with dementia	6
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view	6
Evolution of leisure patterns and their relationship with life satisfaction in a highly ageing context	6
Motives for and barriers to the use of public space among teenage girls: a scoping review	6
Abandoning legacy: towards conceptual clarity and better outcomes in mega-events research	6
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability	6
Gender, sport and society: an introduction	6
From serious leisure to passionate pastime: expanding the conceptual landscape	6
‘Even if the hills are old, they can still be green’. Ageing Mexican- mestiza women’s functional adventure bodies in the outdoors	6