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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society	42
Does Being a Sport Fan Provide Meaning in Life?	42
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball	34
The Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace Collaboratives	32
“Like Ships in the Night” and the Paradox of Distinctiveness for Sport Management: A Citation Network Analysis of Institutional Theory in Sport	30
Introduction: State of Literature Special Issue	25
Working in the Sport Industry: A Classification of Human Capital Archetypes	25
Ethical Club Climate and Coaching Style: Unveiling Their Role in Coach-Perpetrated Psychological Abuse of Gymnasts	22
Examining the Efficacy of a Government-Led Sport for Development and Peace Event	22
A Framework of Strategic Approaches to Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport	21
Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic	21
The Utility of Including Regular Sport Team Events in Event Portfolios	20
Vulnerability to Fraud in Community Sport Organizations: A Multicountry Study on the Role of Organizational Capacity	17
Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence	17
An Investigation Into Voluntary Occupational Turnover of Sport Employees Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change	15
A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	13
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups	12
Exercising Power: A Critical Examination of National Collegiate Athletic Association Discourse Related to Name, Image, and Likeness	12
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft	12
Business the NHL Way: Lessons From the Fastest Game on Ice	11
Services in Sport Management	11
Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy: Country Image Games in Times of Change	11
Why Do Unfairly Paid Trainees Persist? Pay Fairness and Human Capital Investment in Development Leagues	10
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations	10
Conceptualizing Theory Development in Sport Management: An Introduction	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
Organizational Identity Development in Sport Volunteers	9
Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem	9
Erratum. A Typology of Circular Sport Business Models: Enabling Sustainable Value Co-Creation in the Sport Industry	8
Finding Joy in the Journey: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Sport Management	8
Decision-Making Processes Used by Canadian National Sport Organization Boards: Differences Between Design Archetypes	8
Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Sport for Development and Peace	8
The Business of Esports: The Wild Wild West on Fire	8
Sponsorship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: Effects on the Acquisition of Resources, Demand, the Recruitment of Human Capital, and Organizational Performance	8
“It Is Our Space”: The Formation of Diasporic Families’ Community Cultural Wealth Through Ethnic Sport Participation	7
Factors Affecting Women Sports Officials’ Intention to Leave Across Europe	7
Charting a New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining	7
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	7
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in Sport Organizations	7
Authenticity Negotiation: How Elite Athletes (Re)Present Themselves as Personal Brands	7
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research	7
Symbolic Interactionism and the Metamorphosis of Sports Brands: Indian Premier League’s Journey From Niche to Mass Cool	7
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization	6
Understanding the Lack of Diversity in Sport Consumer Behavior Research	6
Tracing Gender Allyship and the Role of Awareness in Addressing the Gender Leadership Gap in Sport Organizations	6
Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People	6
“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion	6
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	6
Owner–Resident Ideological Divergence and Firm Performance: Evidence From Major League Baseball	6
“Sport is Double-Edged”: A Delphi Study of Spectator Sport and Population Health	6
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion	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