OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	42
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	42
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	34
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	32
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	30
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	25
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	25
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	22
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	22
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	21
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	21
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	20
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	17
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	17
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	15
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	13
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	12
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	12
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	12
Services in Sport Management	11
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	11
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	11
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	10
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	10
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	10

Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	9
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	9
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	9
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	8
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
The Business of Esports: The Wild Wild West on Fire	8
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	8
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	8
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	8
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	7
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	7
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	7
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	7
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	7
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	7
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	7
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	6
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	6
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	6
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	6
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	6
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	6
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	6
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	5
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	5
Creating New Sport Opportunities for Girls: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization Across Competitive Environments	5
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	5
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	5
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	5
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	5
Book Review of Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management	4
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	4
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	4
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	4
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	4
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	4
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	4
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	4
State-Level Politics and Bias Predict Transgender Athlete Bans	4
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	4
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	4
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	4
Rivalry in Sport: Understanding Fan Behavior and Organizations	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
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	3
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	3

A Peculiarity That Positions Sport Management	3
The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence	3
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	3
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	3
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	3
Leading Culture Change in Public Recreation	3
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	3
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	3
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	3
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	3
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	3
Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	3
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	3
Directions in Fandom and Spectatorship	3
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	3
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	3
Gender, Leadership, and Governance in English National Governing Bodies of Sport: Formal Structures, Rules, and Processes	3
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	2
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	2
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	2
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	2
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	2
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sport Organizations	2
The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper	2
Handbook on International Sports Law	2
University–Organization Collaboration in Sport for Development: Understanding Practitioners’ Perspectives and Experiences in Research and Evaluation Partnerships	2
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	2
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	2
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	2
The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships	2
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	2
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	2
The Influence of Personal Branding and Institutional Factors on the Name, Image, and Likeness Value of Collegiate Athletes’ Social Media Posts	2
Decolonizing Sport	2
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	2
Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China	2