Sport Management Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Sport Management Review is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes58
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory44
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport35
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda32
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak29
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals23
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review23
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks21
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance20
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup20
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making18
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity17
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis17
New venue, same team, new problems? Crime patterns in an era of new venues and intra-metropolitan sport franchise migration17
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach16
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review15
Organizational capacity, social innovation and organizational performance in sport for development and peace organizations15
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots14
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby14
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences13
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations13
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review13
“We’re starting to turn the page”: navigating stigma as a women’s sport employee13
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup13
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport13
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization13
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory13
Growing yourself as a first-generation American football fan in China: a consumer socialization perspective13
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures13
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport13
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies12
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members12
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment11
Underdogs in the game: how sport start-ups navigate collaboration with external actors10
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 reviews9
Gender differences in lead executive compensation: evidence from intercollegiate athletics9
Game day guilt: how ingroup affiliation and identity threat influence indulgent food choices among sport fans9
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport9
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