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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	66
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	56
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	47
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	44
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	38
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	34
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	33
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	29
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	27
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	23
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	21
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	21
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	20
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	19
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	19
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	18
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	16
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	16
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	16
Services in Sport Management	15
Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	15
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	14
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	14
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	13
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	12

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	12
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	11
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	11
Policy Reform and Organizational Change: A Multilevel Analysis of On-Ice Maltreatment Suspensions in Hockey Canada	11
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	10
Reimagining the Gendering of Sport	10
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	9
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	9
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	9
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	9
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	9
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	9
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	9
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	8
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	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
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	7
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
Speaking Equity, Enacting Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of White Women Leaders in College Sport	7
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	7
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	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	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6
Building Bridges: Laurence Chalip’s Vision and the Future of Sport Management Scholarship	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Luxury in Sport: Opulence, Prestige, and Influence in the Sport Industry	6
The Athlete Effect: Fame, Fans, and the Forces That Move Sport Markets	6
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
Equal Financial Benefits? Title IX Gender Discrimination Behavior in National Collegiate Athletic Association Programs	6
If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? The Impact of Renovated Sports Facilities on Total Revenue and Attendance	6
Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	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
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	6
State-Level Politics and Bias Predict Transgender Athlete Bans	5
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	5
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	5
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	5
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	5
Innovative Quantitative Approaches in Sport Management	5
Directions in Fandom and Spectatorship	5
Standing at a Cost: Consumer Perceptions of Athlete Activism Sacrifice, Support, and Authenticity	5

Handbook on Sport and Migration	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
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	5
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	4
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	4
Consumer Split Identification: The Case of Sponsorship	4
The Bare Supervening Necessities of Theory Development in Sport Management	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	4
Packing the House: Caitlin Clark and Big Ten Women’s Basketball Attendance	4
The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
“The Best Teacher Is Also a Student”: Improving Qualitative Research Literacy by Learning From My Mistakes	4
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	4
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	4
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	4
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	3
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	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
It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball	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
The Impact of Organizational Capacity on Strategic Approaches to Membership Retention and Growth in Community Sport Organizations	3
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	3
Handbook on International Sports Law	3
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	3
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	3
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	3
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sport Organizations	3
Decolonizing Sport	3
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	3