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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	51
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	48
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	41
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	40
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	33
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	27
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	27
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	26
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	25
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	23
The Star Effect of Lionel Messi on Secondary Market Ticket Prices in Major League Soccer	18
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	18
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	17
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	17
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	17
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	16
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	16
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	15
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	14
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	14
Failure in Sport for Development and Peace	11
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	11
Services in Sport Management	11
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	11
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	10

Unpacking the Effect of Employees’ Perceived Fairness in Sport Organizations on Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Approach Using Equity Exchange Model	10
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	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
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
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	9
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	9
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	9
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	9
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	8
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	8
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	8
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	8
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	8
Factors That Matter: Evaluating Relationship Velocity for Sports Fans	8
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	8
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	8
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	8
Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Discursive Strategies of Intercategorical Positioning of New Market Categories	8
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	8
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	8
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	7
What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences	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
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
Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration	7
(Re)Considering Impact in Sport Management	7
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	7