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

Article	Citations
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport	50
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes	39
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory	38
Managing mental health: athlete help-seeking	34
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals	29
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak	28
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda	26
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review	25
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks	21
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance	20
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity	16
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory	15
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making	14
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
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review	13
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport	13
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby	12
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory	12
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots	12
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures	11
Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents	11
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations	10
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences	10

“We’re starting to turn the page”: navigating stigma as a women’s sport employee	10
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup	10
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies	10
Growing yourself as a first-generation American football fan in China: a consumer socialization perspective	10
An exploration of charity sport event donor perceptions of online peer-to-peer fundraising mechanisms	10
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment	9
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization	9
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review	9
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport	9
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport	9
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members	8
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport	8
Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans	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	8
It’s all relative: examining the influence of social identity on sport-based youth development	7
Editorial: 25 ^th Anniversary Special Collection	7
Strategy practitioners and the procedural legitimacy of strategic planning in nonprofit community sport	7
Collective leadership in nonprofit sport boards	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	7
Pollination, cultivation, and perennialization: creating the amateur logic in collegiate sport	7
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics	7
Investigating the drivers of pro-social connection infrastructure in community sport	6
Professional women footballers’ stories of marketing portrayals and sponsorship: “I just had to feel grateful for what I’ve been given”	6
Understanding experiences with capacity building in the sport for development context	6
Leading for multidimensional sport employee well-being: the role of servant leadership and teamwork	6
Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes	6
A bad bet for sports fans: the case for ending the “gamblification” of sport	6
Discursive delegitimisation of athlete activism: a study of the Australian football team	6
Environment as a vulnerability factor for doping: a qualitative examination of Indian track and field athletes’ hurdles to compete clean	6
‘We exist because of them’: understanding the integration mechanisms and process of men’s and women’s football in China	6
Perceived event impacts of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on residents’ eudaimonic well-being: a longitudinal study of within-person changes and relationships	5
Mixed methods in sport management: A review and directions for future research	5
Planning and implementation of event leveraging strategy: China’s legacy pledge to motivate 300 million people to be involved in winter sport	5
Operational crisis communication management: a content analysis of FIFA’s communication during Covid-19	5
Legitimacy work of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study of Los Angeles and Atlanta	5
The impact of sport organization employees’ justice perceptions on organizational citizenship and dysfunctional behavior: the affect-based model	4
“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	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
The dark side of social innovation: integrating a digital application for sport-for-development programmes	4
Leveraging sport events for the promotion of human rights in host communities: diffusion of anti-trafficking campaigns at Super Bowl LIV	4
Operational quality in youth sport clubs: towards a conceptual model	4
Looking beyond performance: understanding service quality through the importance-performance analysis	3
The role of brokerage in green partnership formation in professional sport	3
Long-distance brand relationship marketing in sport: determining factors for satellite fans’ share of wallet and time	3
The impact of socioeconomic background on the timing of long-term contracts in Major League Baseball	3
Uncovering the knowledge structure of the fan-sporting object relationship: a bibliometric analysis	3
How does gender diversity impact board performance? Insights from Australian sport	3

Race and institutionalism: how race shapes organizational behavior in sport