Journal of Sports Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Sports Economics is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Who Benefitted From the PyeongChang Olympic Announcement? Evidence From the South Korean Stock Market76
The Iron Curtain and Referee Bias in International Football20
A Mere Fan Effect on Home-Court Advantage20
Moments of Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer16
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball16
Should I Stay or Should I Go Pro? Early NFL Draft Entry by NCAA FBS Underclassmen15
How COVID-19 Affected Participation in Ultramarathons: Gender, Risk Aversion, and Travel14
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effect of NIL and Transfer Rule Changes on College Basketball Players Entering the NBA Draft13
Wage Dispersion and Team Performance: The Moderation Role of Club Size12
Using Orthodromic Distance to Determine Homefield Advantage in Professional Bass Fishing Tournaments10
Does Draft Currency Promote Competitive Balance? An Empirical Investigation of the National Football League 2002–20219
Where to Go Next? Examining the Effect of Franchise Expansion and Location on Game-Level Attendance in Major League Soccer9
A Dynamic Analysis of Equal Revenue Sharing and Endogenous Salary Caps in the N-Team Leagues9
Integration and Team Performance in the NBA9
Remote Viewership of International Sporting Events and Crime: Evidence From Jamaica8
Serena, Simone, and Semenya: After 50 Years, the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX8
Match-Level Uncertainty in Professional Tennis Revisited—A Novel Approach Applied for the Time Between 2010 and 20198
Performance Quality Preference Heterogeneity in Major League Baseball8
Suspense and Surprise: The Role of Bookmakers’ Spreads8
Time to Say Goodbye: A Duration Analysis of the Determinants of Coach Dismissals and Quits in Major League Soccer7
Mass Gathering Sport Events and the Spread of Viral Respiratory Infection: Japanese Professional Baseball and Influenza7
Salary Cap, Organizational Gap, and Catch-up in the Performance of NBA Teams: A Two-Stage DEA Model Under Heterogeneity7
Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment7
The Impact of Psychological Traits on Performance Under Pressure—Experimental Evidence of Handball Penalties6
Are You Ready for Some Football? Estimating the Effect of American Football Season on Labor Supply in the United States6
UEFA Against the Champions? An Evaluation of the Recent Reform of the Champions League Qualification6
False Start? An Analysis of NFL Penalties With and Without Crowds6
Emotional Cues and the Demand for Televised Sports: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League5
Behavioral Biases in Daily Fantasy Baseball: The Case of the Hot Hand5
Who Should Own the League? Transaction Costs and the Structure of NBA Ownership5
Exploitation in College Sports: No Longer Just a “Man's Game”5
The Importance of Team Fit for NBA Rookies’ Career Earnings5
Contest Outcome Uncertainty and Fan Decisions: A Meta-Analysis4
Sports Mega-Events and Economic Growth: A Synthetic Control Approach4
Stock Markets’ Reactions to the Announcement of the Hosts. An Event Study in the Analysis of Large Sporting Events in the Years 1976–20324
You Booze, You Lose? Spillovers to Crime from Alcohol Sales at College Football Games4
An Introduction to the James Quirk Special Issue and the Economics of Combat Sport4
The Effects of Crowds on Professional European Basketball Teams4
The Emergence of Mixed Martial-Arts and the Future of Boxing: An Analysis of Consumer Interest and Compensation4
Disaggregated Attendance Demand: Comparing Daily Ticket Purchasers and Season Ticket Holders in K-League 14
The Amenity Value of Sports Facilities: Evidence From the Staples Center in Los Angeles4
Football-Generated Rent Sharing and Expenditures on Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics3
Prevention Effect of News Shocks in Anti-Doping Policies3
Online Versus Offline eSports Tournaments: Prize Structure and Individual Performance3
Incentives and Strategic Behavior of Professional Boxers3
The Effect of National Origin and Skin Color on Playing Time in the WNBA3
Are the Lowest-Paid UFC Fighters Really Overpaid? A Comment on Gift (2019)3
Do People Feel Healthier After Holding Sports Mega-Events? Evidence from the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games3
Overshadowed by Popularity: The Value of Second-Tier Stars in European Football3
Property Rights Freedom and Innovation: Eponymous Skills in Women's Gymnastics3
Gendered Consequences of COVID-19 Among Professional Tennis Players3
Pay for Performance in the Pool: Sink or Swim?3
Does Crowd Support Drive the Home Advantage in Professional Football? Evidence from German Ghost Games during the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Expecting the Expected? Documenting Nostalgia Effects on Baseball Card Prices3
Set-level Strategic and Psychological Momentum in Best-of-three-set Professional Tennis Matches3
When the Stars Are Out: The Impact of Missed Games on NBA Television Audiences3
Nontransitive Patterns in Long-Term Football Rivalries3
Player Mobility and Competitive Balance Regulation in Professional Sports Leagues3
Risk-taking in contests with heterogeneous players and intermediate Information—Evidence from handball3
The Impact of Air Pollution on Game Outcome3
The Lasting Impact of NCAA Sanctions: SMU and the Death Penalty3
Attractive or Aggressive? A Face Recognition and Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Returns to Visual Appearance3
A Note on the Preferences of Sports Fans: Partisanship Versus Uncertainty of Outcome2
Fading Shooting Stars—The Relative Age Effect, Ability, and Foregone Market Values in German Elite Youth Soccer2
Optimal Timeout Choices in Clutch Situations in the NBA2
Rottenberg at Sixty-Five: In Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Sports Economics2
City Marathon Events and Tourism Industry: A Quasi-Natural Experiment2
Immediate Impacts of Air Pollution on the Performance of Football Players2
Can Professional Football Players Adapt to Air Pollution? Evidence From China2
Offside Urban Echoes: Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Soccer and Crime in Medellin2
The Effect of Basketball Analytics Investment on National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Performance2
Raising the Bar: Causal Evidence on Gender Differences in Risk-Taking From a Natural Experiment2
Scoring Benefits to Eastward Travel in the NBA2
Sports Facilities as a Housing Amenity: Do Prices Follow Facilities?2
In Memoriam: W. David Allen2
Domestic Competitive Imbalance as the “Price” of Surprise in the Champions League2
Do Jockeys “Look to” or “Rest on” Their Laurels After a Sequence of Winning Rides?2
Revisiting the Effect of Hosting Large-Scale Sport Events on International Tourist Inflows2
Externalities of Violence: The Effects of National Hockey League Fighting on Youth Hockey Participation2
Measuring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Elite Swimming Performance1
Ranking in Incomplete Tournaments: The Generalized Win Percentage Method, Efficiency, and NCAA Football1
Division Play and Outcome Uncertainty in Sports Leagues1
Offensive/Defensive Talent and Sporting Success in Football: Evidence From the Big Five European Leagues1
Exploring the Market of Soccer Player Registrations: An Empirical Analysis of the Difference Between Transfer Fees and Estimated Players’ Inherent Value1
The Golden Ticket: Examining the Impact of Winning the Western States Endurance Run Lottery on Subsequent Ultramarathon Performance and Travel Decisions1
Willingness to Pay for Hosting Formula One1
The Wellbeing Valuation Approach: The Monetary Value of Sport Participation and Volunteering for Different Life Satisfaction Measures and Estimators1
Cross-Quality Impacts of NCAA Division I Baseball and Softball1
Sex Differences in High-Level Managerial Jobs: Evidence From Professional Basketball1
Substitution Effects and the Transnational Demand for European Soccer Telecasts1
Nationality Effects on the Allocation of Playing Time in the Chinese Basketball Association: Xenophilia or Xenophobia?1
Does the Dual Representation System of Player Agents in International Football Benefit Players? An Economic Analysis1
The Designated Player Policy Rule and Attendance Demand in Major League Soccer1
Participation in Competitive Sports Closes Gender Gaps in Competition and in Risk Taking1
Compensating Differentials for the Risk of Reinjury – Lessons from Professional Boxing1
Wages, Talent, and Demand for NCAA Sport After the Alston v. NCAA Antitrust Case1
Oldies but Goldies! Twenty Years After, the Journal of Sports Economics at a Crossroads?1
A comparative study of scoring systems by simulations1
Real Options Applied to Consumer Goods: Maximizing Profits and Fan Welfare1
Market Efficiency and Censoring Bias in College Football Gambling1
The S-Score of Financial Sustainability for Professional Football Clubs1
Corruption and Self-Sabotage in Sporting Competitions – An Experimental Approach to Match-Fixing Behavior and the Influence of Deterrence Factors1
Umpire Home Bias in Major League Baseball1
Compensating Tendencies in Disciplinary Sanctions: The Case of Hurling1
COVID-19 Diffusion Before Awareness: The Role of Football Match Attendance in Italy1
Does The Betting Industry Price Gender? Evidence from Professional Tennis1
Competitive Balance in the Post-2024 Champions League and the European Super League: A Simulation Study1
For A Brighter Tomorrow—A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Athletes’ International Migration1
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