OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	44
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	37
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	32
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	31
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	23
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks	19
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	18
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	17
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	17
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis	16
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach	15
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity	15
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	15
Organizational capacity, social innovation and organizational performance in sport for development and peace organizations	14
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots	13
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	13
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby	12
Growing yourself as a first-generation American football fan in China: a consumer socialization perspective	12
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	12
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup	12
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	12
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	12
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	12
“We’re starting to turn the page”: navigating stigma as a women’s sport employee	11

A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	11
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	11
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members	10
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization	10
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	10
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies	10
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	10
Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans	9
Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	9
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport	8
Conditions and mechanisms of trust within boards of voluntary sport governing bodies	8
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics	8
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
Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport	7
Investigating the drivers of pro-social connection infrastructure in community sport	7
Trust can move mountain (biking): a social network examination of the role of trust, communication and coopetition in youth sport	7
Editorial: 25 ^th Anniversary Special Collection	7
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
Discursive delegitimisation of athlete activism: a study of the Australian football team	6
Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given”	6
Environment as a vulnerability factor for doping: a qualitative examination of Indian track and field athletes’ hurdles to compete clean	6
Collective leadership in nonprofit sport boards	6
Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes	5
Leveraging sport events for the promotion of human rights in host communities: diffusion of anti-trafficking campaigns at Super Bowl LIV	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
Balancing recognition and novelty: exploring the brand architecture of integrated football clubs in the English Women’s Super League	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
‘We exist because of them’: understanding the integration mechanisms and process of men’s and women’s football in China	5
Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context	5
“We’re semi-intentional”: exploring the internal administration of strategic marketing in sport-based youth development organizations	5
The impact of sport organization employees’ justice perceptions on organizational citizenship and dysfunctional behavior: the affect-based model	5
Operational crisis communication management: a content analysis of FIFA’s communication during Covid-19	5
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
Queering inclusion: the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in rugby in Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
Operational quality in youth sport clubs: towards a conceptual model	4
Understanding toxic behaviors in the esports environment: an integrative review and future research directions	4
Looking beyond performance: understanding service quality through the importance-performance analysis	4
The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes	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
Race and institutionalism: how race shapes organizational behavior in sport	3
“You have to dance to our tune, but we won’t tell you the tune”: exploring resource dependency and agency control in sport for development	3
Long-distance brand relationship marketing in sport: determining factors for satellite fans’ share of wallet and time	3
Shared leadership and employee outcomes in sport for development and peace (SDP): the mediating role of meaningful work	3
The role of brokerage in green partnership formation in professional sport	3
Sport fandom and physical health orientation: the roles of group norms and team identification	3
The impact of socioeconomic background on the timing of long-term contracts in Major League Baseball	3

“My definition of community is community, and their definition is more around fan engagement”: balancing business and social logics of professional sport teams’ community activities