Sport Management Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Sport Management Review is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
“Activism is welcome as long as it’s peaceful”: athletic administrators’ perspectives on college athlete activism via stakeholder theory49
“Your voice is power!” Examining motivations and opportunity structures for high school athlete activism in U.S. interscholastic sport36
Motivational system approach to understand ad processing following various game outcomes34
Managing mental health: athlete help-seeking30
Sport and social entrepreneurship in the base-of-the-pyramid: The institutional work of refugees and a refugee-led organization in Uganda28
Role of risk perception on trust, event impact experiences, and event support in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 outbreak26
When feeling is for pursuing: exploring the moderating role of spectatorship locus of control on fans’ emotion-directed pursuit of consumption goals26
Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: a scoping review23
Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance22
Innovation in sport organisations: the role of formal organisational structures and informal networks20
Exploring the determinants of women football players’ Instagram popularity18
The diffusion of natural language processing in professional sport16
Do consumers care about credibility? Examining corporate credibility and price on sport ticket purchase decision making15
Rage against the machine: investigating conspiracy theories about the video assistant referee on Twitter during the 2018 FIFA World Cup13
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach13
How do elite sport organizations frame diversity and inclusion? A critical race analysis13
A conceptual framework for understanding brand connection to sport mascots12
Research on human rights and large-scale sport events from 1990 to 2022: a scoping review12
The perceived financial situation of nonprofit sports clubs explained by objective financial measures12
Do humanized team mascots attract new fans? Application and extension of the anthropomorphism theory12
Using feminist critical management studies to examine LGBTQ+ women’s experiences of inclusion and exclusion in rugby11
An exploration of charity sport event donor perceptions of online peer-to-peer fundraising mechanisms10
Categorizing engagement behavior in sport brand communities – an empirical study informed by social practice theory10
Growing yourself as a first-generation American football fan in China: a consumer socialization perspective10
Public perception of esports: an examination of esports image and genre differences10
Sportswomen, social media, and gendered affective labor: an analysis of two teams at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup10
Co-creation in youth sport development: examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents10
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations9
The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members9
“We’re starting to turn the page”: navigating stigma as a women’s sport employee9
“If you build it, they will buy it”: exploring consumer insights of professional women’s football merchandising strategies9
Advancing sport ecology research on sport and the natural environment9
Urban sprawl and leisure time physical activity9
Sport spectator well-being: a scoping review9
A critical examination of how experiences shape board governance at the community level of sport9
Collaborative competitors: how NCAA college athletes manage team dynamics amid personal brand monetization8
Leadership development: relationality and temporality in professional sport8
Why don’t more college athletes engage in activism? A multilevel analysis of barriers to activism in the hegemonic arena of intercollegiate sport8
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