OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sport Management is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	36
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	35
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	27
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	25
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	25
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	23
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	23
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	22
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	20
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	18
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	16
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	15
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	15
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	14
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	13
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	13
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	13
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	12
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	11
Services in Sport Management	11
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	11
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	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

Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	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	9
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	9
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	8
The Business of Esports: The Wild Wild West on Fire	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	8
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	7
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	7
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	7
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	7
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	7
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	7
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	7
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	7
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	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
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	6
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	6
“Slayyyed Head to Toe”: Social Media Discourses of Blackness, Queerness, Gender, and the Women’s National Basketball Association Draft	6
When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal	6
Invisible and Undervalued: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Women Coaches’ Emotional Labor	6
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
Superstars Really Are Scarce: Shohei Ohtani and Baseball Attendance	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
Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading	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
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	6
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	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