OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sport Management is 7. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	55
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	51
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	43
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	41
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	35
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	30
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	28
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	27
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	26
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	23
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	20
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	18
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	18
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	18
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	17
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	17
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	15
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	15
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	13
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	12
Services in Sport Management	11
Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	11
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	11
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	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
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
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	10
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	10
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	10
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	10
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	9
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
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	9
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	9
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	9
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	8
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	8
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	8
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	8
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	8
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	8
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	8
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	8
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	8
The New Wave of Influencers: Examining College Athlete Identities and the Role of Homophily and Parasocial Relationships in Leveraging Name, Image, and Likeness	8
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	8
Basketball’s Black Tax? An Examination of Historically Black College and University Men’s Basketball Guarantee Game Compensation	7
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	7
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	7
Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration	7
Team Representation: Scale Development and Validation	7
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	7