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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	58
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	52
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	43
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	42
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	33
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	31
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	30
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	27
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	27
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	25
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	20
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	19
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	18
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	18
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	17
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	17
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	16
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	16
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	14
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	14
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	13
Services in Sport Management	12
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	12
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	11
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	11

Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	11
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	11
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	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
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	10
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	10
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	10
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	10
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	9
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	9
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	9
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	9
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	9
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	8
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	8
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	7
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	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
Community Politics and Division I Athletic Departments’ Gender Equity Practices	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	7
Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration	7
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	7
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	7
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	7
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	7
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	6
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	6
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
Mega Sporting Events and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Investigation of the Differences Among the Types of Sporting Events and Host Countries	6
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	6
Equal Financial Benefits? Title IX Gender Discrimination Behavior in National Collegiate Athletic Association Programs	6
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	5
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	5
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	5
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	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
Handbook on Sport and Migration	5

Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	5
Standing at a Cost: Consumer Perceptions of Athlete Activism Sacrifice, Support, and Authenticity	5
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	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
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	4
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	4
The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence	4
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	4
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	4
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	4
Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China	3
Challenging Athletes’ “Social Description”: A Multistudy Qualitative Examination of Activist Identity Development Among U.S. Youth Athlete Activists	3
Great Expectations: A Critical Review of Interorganizational Relationships in Amateur Sport	3
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	3
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	3
Sport Management Is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Link: Exploring Reputation and Legitimacy of the Sport Management Academic Discipline From a Higher Education Administrator’s Perspective	3
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	3
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	3
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	3
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	3
The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships	3
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	3
“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
Image Repair Using Social Identity Leadership: An Exploratory Analysis of the National Football League’s Response to the National Anthem Protests	3
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	3
Handbook on International Sports Law	3
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	3
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	3