OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sport Management Review is 4. 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
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	49
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	36
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	34
Managing mental health: athlete help-seeking	30
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda	28
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak	26
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	26
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	23
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	22
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks	20
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity	18
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport	16
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	15
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	13
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach	13
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	13
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots	12
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	12
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	12
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory	12
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby	11
Growing yourself as a first-generation American football fan in China: a consumer socialization perspective	10
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	10
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup	10
Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents	10

An exploration of charity sport event donor perceptions of online peer-to-peer fundraising mechanisms	10
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	10
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	9
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members	9
“We’re starting to turn the page”: navigating stigma as a women’s sport employee	9
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies	9
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	9
Urban sprawl and leisure time physical activity	9
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	9
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	9
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization	8
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport	8
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	8
Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport	7
The influence of team-member exchange on turnover intention among student-athletes: the mediating role of interpersonal self-efficacy and the moderating role of seniority	7
Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	7
Editorial: 25 ^th Anniversary Special Collection	7
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics	7
Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans	7
Experience is all you need: a large language model application of fine-tuned GPT-3.5 and RoBERTa for aspect-based sentiment analysis of college football stadium reviews	7
Conditions and mechanisms of trust within boards of voluntary sport governing bodies	7
Trust can move mountain (biking): a social network examination of the role of trust, communication and coopetition in youth sport	6
Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given”	6
Leading for multidimensional sport employee well-being: the role of servant leadership and teamwork	6
Environment as a vulnerability factor for doping: a qualitative examination of Indian track and field athletes’ hurdles to compete clean	6
Well-being of sport club members: the role of pro-environmental behavior in sport and clubs’ environmental quality	6
‘We exist because of them’: understanding the integration mechanisms and process of men’s and women’s football in China	6
Collective leadership in nonprofit sport boards	6
Discursive delegitimisation of athlete activism: a study of the Australian football team	6
A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport	6
It’s all relative: examining the influence of social identity on sport-based youth development	6
Leveraging sport events for the promotion of human rights in host communities: diffusion of anti-trafficking campaigns at Super Bowl LIV	5
Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context	5
Legitimacy work of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study of Los Angeles and Atlanta	5
Mixed methods in sport management: A review and directions for future research	5
Perceived event impacts of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on residents’ eudaimonic well-being: a longitudinal study of within-person changes and relationships	5
Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes	5
Operational crisis communication management: a content analysis of FIFA’s communication during Covid-19	5
The impact of sport organization employees’ justice perceptions on organizational citizenship and dysfunctional behavior: the affect-based model	4
Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events	4
The role of brokerage in green partnership formation in professional sport	4
Exploring tanking strategies in the NBA: an empirical analysis of resting healthy players	4
Planning and implementation of event leveraging strategy: China’s legacy pledge to motivate 300 million people to be involved in winter sport	4
The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes	4
Looking beyond performance: understanding service quality through the importance-performance analysis	4
Operational quality in youth sport clubs: towards a conceptual model	4
Queering inclusion: the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
Toward a better understanding of core and peripheral market demand for women’s spectator sports: An importance-performance map analysis approach based on gender	4
Continuing or withdrawing from endurance sport events under environmental uncertainty: athletes’ decision-making	4