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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	47
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	43
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	37
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	36
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	31
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	26
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	25
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	23
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	23
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	23
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	20
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	18
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	16
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	16
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	15
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	14
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	14
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	13
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	13
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	13
Services in Sport Management	13
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	13
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	11
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	10
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	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
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
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	9
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	9
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	8
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
The Business of Esports: The Wild Wild West on Fire	8
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	7
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	7
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	7
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	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
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	7
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	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
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	7
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	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
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	6
Book Review of Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management	6
The Hidden Players: An Egocentric-Network Analysis of Work–Life Balance Among College Athletics Employees	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	6
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	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
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively	6
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
Sports Sponsorship Announcements and Marketing Capability	5
Renewable Energy Source Diffusion in Professional Sport Facilities	5
An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football	5
Directions in Fandom and Spectatorship	5
Does It Matter if Sport Fans “Root for the Home Team?” A Test of the Team Identification–Social Psychological Health Model	5
State-Level Politics and Bias Predict Transgender Athlete Bans	5
Rivalry in Sport: Understanding Fan Behavior and Organizations	5
The Impact of Augmented Reality Technology on Sport Spectators’ Psychological and Behavioral Responses: The Role of Sensitization and Habituation	4
Innovative Quantitative Approaches in Sport Management	4
Are “Tech-Savvy” Owners Better for Business? Evidence From Major League Baseball	4
(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations	4
“Seven Weeks Is Not a Lot of Time”: Temporal Work and Institutional Change in Australian Football	4
Leading Culture Change in Public Recreation	4

Player Tracking, Shot Charts, and the National Basketball Association’s Three-Point Revolution: A Technology-Based Misspecification in a Primary Sport Management Setting?	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
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations: A Management-by-Values Approach	4
Governance of Post-Olympic Games Legacy Organizations: A Comparative Study	4
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality	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
Bouncing Back: Unpacking the Influence of Sport Media on Consumer Resilience	4
With Name, Image, and Likeness, College Sports Enters the Gig Economy	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
Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China	3
Decolonizing Sport	3
Broadcaster Choice and Audience Demand for Live Sport Games: Panel Analyses of the Korea Baseball Organization	3
What Is Blackness to Sport Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field	3
The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships	3
Addressing the Complexity of Violence Against Women in Sport: Using the World Café Method to Inform Organizational Response	3
Handbook on International Sports Law	3
A Segmentation Analysis of American Sports Bettors by Involvement	3
Accounting for Race: A Critical Institutionalist Approach	3
Institutional Theory in Sport: A Scoping Review	3
Challenging Athletes’ “Social Description”: A Multistudy Qualitative Examination of Activist Identity Development Among U.S. Youth Athlete Activists	3
Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing	3
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice (1st ed.)	3