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Papers

(The median citation count of Sport Management Review is 3. 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
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	39
Managing mental health: athlete help-seeking	32
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	31
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	23
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak	21
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda	20
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	20
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	19
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	17
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks	16
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity	15
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach	14
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport	12
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory	12
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	12
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	11
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	11
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	11
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	10
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	9
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby	9
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots	9
Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents	9
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	9
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	8

The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members	8
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup	8
Urban sprawl and leisure time physical activity	8
An exploration of charity sport event donor perceptions of online peer-to-peer fundraising mechanisms	8
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	7
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization	7
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies	7
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	7
We are a team of leaders: practicing leadership in professional sport	7
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	7
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	7
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport	6
Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	6
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	6
Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans	6
Conditions and mechanisms of trust within boards of voluntary sport governing bodies	6
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics	6
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	6
Operational crisis communication management: a content analysis of FIFA’s communication during Covid-19	5
Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport	5
Collective leadership in nonprofit sport boards	5
Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given”	5
Mixed methods in sport management: A review and directions for future research	5
Legitimacy work of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study of Los Angeles and Atlanta	5
Well-being of sport club members: the role of pro-environmental behavior in sport and clubs’ environmental quality	5
It’s all relative: examining the influence of social identity on sport-based youth development	5
Environment as a vulnerability factor for doping: a qualitative examination of Indian track and field athletes’ hurdles to compete clean	5
Discursive delegitimisation of athlete activism: a study of the Australian football team	5
Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context	5
Editorial: 25 ^th Anniversary Special Collection	5
Leading for multidimensional sport employee well-being: the role of servant leadership and teamwork	5
A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport	5
Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes	5
Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events	4
Queering inclusion: the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes	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 impact of sport organization employees’ justice perceptions on organizational citizenship and dysfunctional behavior: the affect-based model	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
Leveraging sport events for the promotion of human rights in host communities: diffusion of anti-trafficking campaigns at Super Bowl LIV	4
Perceived event impacts of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on residents’ eudaimonic well-being: a longitudinal study of within-person changes and relationships	4
Operational quality in youth sport clubs: towards a conceptual model	4
Continuing or withdrawing from endurance sport events under environmental uncertainty: athletes’ decision-making	3
How does gender diversity impact board performance? Insights from Australian sport	3
Resource deprivation, decision stakes, and the selection of foreign players in the NBA draft	3
Looking beyond performance: understanding service quality through the importance-performance analysis	3
The role of brokerage in green partnership formation in professional sport	3
Exploring tanking strategies in the NBA: an empirical analysis of resting healthy players	3
Long-distance brand relationship marketing in sport: determining factors for satellite fans’ share of wallet and time	3
Uncovering the knowledge structure of the fan-sporting object relationship: a bibliometric analysis	3