OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport Management 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	51
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	48
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	41
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	40
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	33
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	27
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	27
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	26
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	25
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	23
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	18
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	18
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	17
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	17
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	17
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	16
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	16
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	15
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	14
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	14
Services in Sport Management	11
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	11
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	11
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	11
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	10

Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	10
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	10
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Approaches to the Formation of Individual Sport Fans’ Psychological Ownership and Its Impacts on Prosocial Behavior, Attendance Intention, and Psychological Well-B	10
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	10
Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	10
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	9
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	9
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	9
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	9
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	8
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	8
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	8
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	8
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	8
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	8
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	8
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	8
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration	7
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	7
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	7
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	7
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	7
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	6
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6
Equal Financial Benefits? Title IX Gender Discrimination Behavior in National Collegiate Athletic Association Programs	6
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	6
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
Handbook on Sport and Migration	5
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	5
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	5
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	5
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	5
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	5
Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	5
Directions in Fandom and Spectatorship	5
Luxury in Sport: Opulence, Prestige, and Influence in the Sport Industry	5

State-Level Politics and Bias Predict Transgender Athlete Bans	5
Innovative Quantitative Approaches in Sport Management	5
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	4
Leading Culture Change in Public Recreation	4
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	4
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	4
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	4
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	4
The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence	4
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	4
A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	4
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	4
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	4
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	4
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	4
“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	3
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sport Organizations	3
University–Organization Collaboration in Sport for Development: Understanding Practitioners’ Perspectives and Experiences in Research and Evaluation Partnerships	3
Decolonizing Sport	3
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	3
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	3
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	3
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	3
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	3
Handbook on International Sports Law	3
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	3
The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships	3
Challenging Athletes’ “Social Description”: A Multistudy Qualitative Examination of Activist Identity Development Among U.S. Youth Athlete Activists	3
Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China	3
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	3