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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport Management is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sport Ecology: Conceptualizing an Emerging Subdiscipline Within Sport Management	106
Measuring Externalities: The Imperative Next Step to Sustainability Assessment in Sport	57
Transformative Sport Service Research: Linking Sport Services With Well-Being	28
Organizational Capacity and Performance of Community Sport Clubs	27
Big Data and Analytics in Sport Management	25
The Role of Self-Brand Connection on the Relationship Between Athlete Brand Image and Fan Outcomes	25
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	24
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	23
Developing Student-Athlete School Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being: The Effects of Academic Psychological Capital and Engagement	23
The Strength of Fan Ties: Emotional Support in Sport Fan Egocentric Networks	21
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	19
Customer Engagement in Sport: An Updated Review and Research Agenda	19
The Psychological Meaning of Team Among Fans of Women’s Sport	18
Sport Experience Design: Wearable Fitness Technology in the Health and Fitness Industry	17
Elite Athlete Well-Being: The Role of Socioeconomic Factors and Comparisons With the Resident Population	16
An Institutional Framework for Governance Convergence in Sport: The Case of India	16
Do Consumer Perceptions of Tanking Impact Attendance at National Basketball Association Games? A Sentiment Analysis Approach	15
Connecting Customer Knowledge Management and Intention to Use Sport Services Through Psychological Involvement, Commitment, and Customer Perceived Value	15
Understanding Season Ticket Holder Attendance Decisions	15
The Attention Economy and Esports: An Econometric Analysis of Twitch Viewership	14
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	14
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	14
Is Reflexivity Enough? Addressing Reflexive Embodiment, Power, and Whiteness in Sport Management Research	14
Parent Well-Being Through Community Youth Sport: An Autoethnography of “Sideline” Participation	14
The Causal Effect of Voluntary Roles in Sport on Subjective Well-Being in European Countries	13

Critical Discourse Analysis as Theory, Methodology, and Analyses in Sport Management Studies	13
Addressing Gender Inequity in Sport Through Women’s Invisible Labor	13
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	12
Women and Leadership Development in Australian Sport Organizations	12
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	12
Predicting Fan Behavior Through Egocentric Network Analysis: Examining Season-Ticket Holder Renewal	12
Large-Scale Sport Events and Resident Well-Being: Examining PERMA and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games	11
Remapping the Sport Brandscape: A Structured Review and Future Direction for Sport Brand Research	11
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	11
LGBT Diversity and Inclusion, Community Characteristics, and Success	11
Brand New: A Longitudinal Investigation of Brand Associations as Drivers of Team Identity Among Fans of a New Sport Team	11
Examining Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Passage of Youth Sport Concussion Legislation	10
Stigma Consciousness and Work Outcomes of Senior Woman Administrators: The Role of Workplace Incivility	9
The Effect of Digital Integrated Marketing Communications on Not-for-Profit Sport Consumption Behaviors	9
Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector	8
Analyzing Collaborations Involving Nonprofit Youth Sport Organizations: A Resource-Dependency Perspective	8
“Count the Ways That It Impacts Your Life”: New Parenthood and Sport Fandom	8
Frustrated Customers: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Yelp Reviews	8
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	8
Row! Row! Row Your Boat! Transformative Value Cocreation and Codestruction in Elite and Olympic Rowers	7
“Germany Crashes Out of World Cup”: A Mixed-Method Study on the Effects of Crisis Communication on Facebook	7
Running Through Travel Career Progression: Social Worlds and Active Sport Tourism	7
Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States	7
Building Inclusive Communities in Youth Sport for Lesbian-Parented Families	7
Predicting Season Ticket Holder Retention Using Rich Behavioral Data	7
Charting Their Own Path: Using Life Course Theory to Explore the Careers of Gay Men Working in Sport	7
Dealing With Statistical Significance in Big Data: The Social Media Value of Game Outcomes in Professional Football	7
Leveraging Events to Develop Collaborative Partnerships: Examining the Formation and Collaborative Dynamics of the Ontario Parasport Legacy Group	7
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	7
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	6
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	6
“No Idea is a Bad Idea”: Exploring the Nature of Design Thinking Alignment in an Australian Sport Organization	6
Extending the Kaleidoscope Career Model: Understanding Career Needs of Midcareer Elite Head Coaches	6
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	5
The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper	5
“If You Ain’t First, You’re Last!” Understanding Identity Threat, Team Identification, and Advertisement Messages When Your Favorite Team Loses	5
Athlete Misconduct and Team Sponsor Stock Prices: The Role of Incident Type and Media Coverage	5
The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations	5
Building and Sustaining Organizational Capacity in Voluntary Sports Clubs: Findings From a Longitudinal Study	5
Ownership in European Soccer, Financial Fair Play, and Performance in UEFA’s 2006–2018 Champions League Tournaments	5
The Role of Team Identification on the Sponsorship Articulation–Fit Relationship	5
“It’s Like Being on an Island by Yourself”: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Administrators’ Perceptions of Barriers to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Intercollegiate Athletics	5
Interaction of Communication From the Sport Organization, Media, and Public Perspectives: How Does Messaging Relate and Differ?	5
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	5
What Does Entrepreneurship Add to the Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Sport?	5
The Effects of the 2018 Commonwealth Games Service Environment on Athlete Satisfaction and Performance: A Transformative Service Research Approach	4
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	4
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	4
How League and Community Affect Corporate Philanthropy in Professional Sport: A Multiple Field Embeddedness Perspective	4
Sporting Events and the Derived Demand for Hotels: Evidence From Southeastern Conference Football Games	4

Who Are We Honoring? Extending the Ebony & Ivy Discussion to Include Sport Facilities	4
“Back in the Day, You Opened Your Mine and on You Went”: Extractives Industry Perspectives on Sport, Responsibility, and Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada	4
Man or Machine: Fantasy Football and Dehumanization of Professional Athletes	4
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	3
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	3
Agency Theory and Principal–Agent Alignment Masks: An Examination of Penalties in the National Football League	3
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	3
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	3
Solving the Athleisure Myth: A Means-End Chain Analysis of Female Activewear Consumption	3
All the News That’s Fit to Print? How the Media Frames Professional Athlete Philanthropy	3
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	3
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	3
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	3
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	3
Navigating a White, Male Space: The Lived Experiences of Black, Female Ice Hockey Fans	3
“Out of the Black, Into the Big Blue” on a Single Breath: Sport Event Value Co-Creation as Symbolic World-Making	3
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	3
Leveraging Event Participation Benefits Beyond the Running Course: Deciphering the Motivational Basis of Event Satisfaction	3
Fashion Versus Comfort: Exploring the Gendered Marketing Messages of Sport Team Licensed Merchandise	2
Refereeing as a Postathletic Career Option	2
Empirical Investigation of Sport Trademark Dilution Using Contingent Valuation Method	2
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	2
The Donors Supporting Charity Sport Event Participants: An Exploration of the Factors Driving Donations	2
The Effect of Remote Work on Family and Work Dynamics Within the Sport Industry	2
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	2
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	2
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	2
Dead Spaces: Sport Venues and Police Stops in a Major League, Upper Midwestern City in the United States	2
Increasing Human Capital of Coaches—An Investigation Into Individual and Organizational Factors	2
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	2
Privileging Practice in Sport Leadership: Applying Relational Reflexivity	2
Toward a Better Understanding of Fair-Weather Fandom: Exploring the Role of Collective Narcissism in Basking in Reflected Glory and Cutting Off Reflected Failure	2
Exploring (Semi) Professionalization in Women’s Team Sport Through a Continuum of Care Lens	2
What Are the Benefits of Hosting a Sporting Mega Event? Evidence From Industrial Firms in China	2
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	2
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	2
Stadium Giveaway Promotions: How Many Items to Give and the Impact on Ticket Sales in Live Sports	2
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	2
Exploring the Perception of Division I Coaches and Administrators About International Collegiate Athlete Exclusion From Name, Image, and Likeness Opportunities	2
Subtexts of Research on Diversity in Sport Organizations: Queering Intersectional Perspectives	2
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	2
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	2