Journal of Sports Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Sports Economics is 2. 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
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball24
The Iron Curtain and Referee Bias in International Football23
A Mere Fan Effect on Home-Court Advantage22
Should I Stay or Should I Go Pro? Early NFL Draft Entry by NCAA FBS Underclassmen19
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effect of NIL and Transfer Rule Changes on College Basketball Players Entering the NBA Draft18
How COVID-19 Affected Participation in Ultramarathons: Gender, Risk Aversion, and Travel18
Where to Go Next? Examining the Effect of Franchise Expansion and Location on Game-Level Attendance in Major League Soccer17
Using Orthodromic Distance to Determine Homefield Advantage in Professional Bass Fishing Tournaments12
Does Draft Currency Promote Competitive Balance? An Empirical Investigation of the National Football League 2002–202112
Performance Quality Preference Heterogeneity in Major League Baseball12
A Dynamic Analysis of Equal Revenue Sharing and Endogenous Salary Caps in the N-Team Leagues12
Match-Level Uncertainty in Professional Tennis Revisited—A Novel Approach Applied for the Time Between 2010 and 201911
Suspense and Surprise: The Role of Bookmakers’ Spreads11
Serena, Simone, and Semenya: After 50 Years, the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX10
Integration and Team Performance in the NBA9
Remote Viewership of International Sporting Events and Crime: Evidence From Jamaica8
Wage Dispersion and Team Performance: The Moderation Role of Club Size8
Mass Gathering Sport Events and the Spread of Viral Respiratory Infection: Japanese Professional Baseball and Influenza8
Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment7
UEFA Against the Champions? An Evaluation of the Recent Reform of the Champions League Qualification7
The Importance of Team Fit for NBA Rookies’ Career Earnings7
Different Strokes: Winning Strategies in Women's (and Men's) Big Bash Cricket7
Emotional Cues and the Demand for Televised Sports: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League6
False Start? An Analysis of NFL Penalties With and Without Crowds6
Exploitation in College Sports: No Longer Just a “Man's Game”6
You Booze, You Lose? Spillovers to Crime from Alcohol Sales at College Football Games6
Behavioral Biases in Daily Fantasy Baseball: The Case of the Hot Hand6
The Emergence of Mixed Martial-Arts and the Future of Boxing: An Analysis of Consumer Interest and Compensation5
An Introduction to the James Quirk Special Issue and the Economics of Combat Sport5
Disaggregated Attendance Demand: Comparing Daily Ticket Purchasers and Season Ticket Holders in K-League 15
Stock Markets’ Reactions to the Announcement of the Hosts. An Event Study in the Analysis of Large Sporting Events in the Years 1976–20325
Contest Outcome Uncertainty and Fan Decisions: A Meta-Analysis5
Overshadowed by Popularity: The Value of Second-Tier Stars in European Football4
The Impact of Air Pollution on Game Outcome4
Expecting the Expected? Documenting Nostalgia Effects on Baseball Card Prices4
Skills vs. Luck: Decomposing Deviations from Expected Performance in European Football Leagues4
Risk-taking in contests with heterogeneous players and intermediate Information—Evidence from handball4
Player Mobility and Competitive Balance Regulation in Professional Sports Leagues4
Sports Mega-Events and Economic Growth: A Synthetic Control Approach4
Set-level Strategic and Psychological Momentum in Best-of-three-set Professional Tennis Matches4
Do People Feel Healthier After Holding Sports Mega-Events? Evidence from the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games4
Pay for Performance in the Pool: Sink or Swim?4
Attractive or Aggressive? A Face Recognition and Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Returns to Visual Appearance4
They were Robbed! Scoring by the Middlemost to Attenuate Biased Judging in Boxing4
The Effects of Crowds on Professional European Basketball Teams4
When the Stars Are Out: The Impact of Missed Games on NBA Television Audiences4
The Effect of National Origin and Skin Color on Playing Time in the WNBA3
Gendered Consequences of COVID-19 Among Professional Tennis Players3
Crowds and Managerial Decisions in European Football Leagues3
In Memoriam: W. David Allen3
Can Professional Football Players Adapt to Air Pollution? Evidence From China3
Property Rights Freedom and Innovation: Eponymous Skills in Women's Gymnastics3
Prevention Effect of News Shocks in Anti-Doping Policies3
Online Versus Offline eSports Tournaments: Prize Structure and Individual Performance3
A Note on the Preferences of Sports Fans: Partisanship Versus Uncertainty of Outcome3
Offside Urban Echoes: Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Soccer and Crime in Medellin3
The Effect of Basketball Analytics Investment on National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Performance3
Football-Generated Rent Sharing and Expenditures on Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics3
Incentives and Strategic Behavior of Professional Boxers3
Nontransitive Patterns in Long-Term Football Rivalries3
Intergalactic Peer Effects: The Role of Teammates in StarCraft 23
Fading Shooting Stars—The Relative Age Effect, Ability, and Foregone Market Values in German Elite Youth Soccer3
Sports Facilities as a Housing Amenity: Do Prices Follow Facilities?3
Does The Betting Industry Price Gender? Evidence from Professional Tennis2
The Golden Ticket: Examining the Impact of Winning the Western States Endurance Run Lottery on Subsequent Ultramarathon Performance and Travel Decisions2
Scoring Benefits to Eastward Travel in the NBA2
Raising the Bar: Causal Evidence on Gender Differences in Risk-Taking From a Natural Experiment2
The Impact of Pool Sharing on the Distribution of Playing Talent in the N-Team Leagues2
COVID-19 Diffusion Before Awareness: The Role of Football Match Attendance in Italy2
Real Options Applied to Consumer Goods: Maximizing Profits and Fan Welfare2
Participation in Competitive Sports Closes Gender Gaps in Competition and in Risk Taking2
Compensating Differentials for the Risk of Reinjury – Lessons from Professional Boxing2
Willingness to Pay for Hosting Formula One2
Revisiting the Effect of Hosting Large-Scale Sport Events on International Tourist Inflows2
Do Jockeys “Look to” or “Rest on” Their Laurels After a Sequence of Winning Rides?2
Externalities of Violence: The Effects of National Hockey League Fighting on Youth Hockey Participation2
Optimal Timeout Choices in Clutch Situations in the NBA2
For A Brighter Tomorrow—A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Athletes’ International Migration2
Exploring the Market of Soccer Player Registrations: An Empirical Analysis of the Difference Between Transfer Fees and Estimated Players’ Inherent Value2
Compensating Tendencies in Disciplinary Sanctions: The Case of Hurling2
Wages, Talent, and Demand for NCAA Sport After the Alston v. NCAA Antitrust Case2
Cross-Quality Impacts of NCAA Division I Baseball and Softball2
Rottenberg at Sixty-Five: In Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Sports Economics2
Immediate Impacts of Air Pollution on the Performance of Football Players2
Domestic Competitive Imbalance as the “Price” of Surprise in the Champions League2
City Marathon Events and Tourism Industry: A Quasi-Natural Experiment2
Umpire Home Bias in Major League Baseball2
With the Game on the (Betting) Line: NBA Referee Performance in the Last Two Minutes2
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