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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball27
The Iron Curtain and Referee Bias in International Football26
A Mere Fan Effect on Home-Court Advantage22
The Well-Being Value of Sport for Loneliness and Depression20
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 Draft16
How COVID-19 Affected Participation in Ultramarathons: Gender, Risk Aversion, and Travel14
Performance Quality Preference Heterogeneity in Major League Baseball12
A Dynamic Analysis of Equal Revenue Sharing and Endogenous Salary Caps in the N-Team Leagues11
Using Orthodromic Distance to Determine Homefield Advantage in Professional Bass Fishing Tournaments11
Match-Level Uncertainty in Professional Tennis Revisited—A Novel Approach Applied for the Time Between 2010 and 201911
Serena, Simone, and Semenya: After 50 Years, the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX10
Integration and Team Performance in the NBA10
Does Draft Currency Promote Competitive Balance? An Empirical Investigation of the National Football League 2002–20219
Suspense and Surprise: The Role of Bookmakers’ Spreads9
Where to Go Next? Examining the Effect of Franchise Expansion and Location on Game-Level Attendance in Major League Soccer9
UEFA Against the Champions? An Evaluation of the Recent Reform of the Champions League Qualification8
Mass Gathering Sport Events and the Spread of Viral Respiratory Infection: Japanese Professional Baseball and Influenza8
Remote Viewership of International Sporting Events and Crime: Evidence From Jamaica8
Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment7
Different Strokes: Winning Strategies in Women's (and Men's) Big Bash Cricket7
The Importance of Team Fit for NBA Rookies’ Career Earnings7
Exploitation in College Sports: No Longer Just a “Man's Game”6
Behavioral Biases in Daily Fantasy Baseball: The Case of the Hot Hand6
False Start? An Analysis of NFL Penalties With and Without Crowds6
Emotional Cues and the Demand for Televised Sports: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League6
Sports Mega-Events and Economic Growth: A Synthetic Control Approach5
The Emergence of Mixed Martial-Arts and the Future of Boxing: An Analysis of Consumer Interest and Compensation5
You Booze, You Lose? Spillovers to Crime from Alcohol Sales at College Football Games5
The Effects of Crowds on Professional European Basketball Teams5
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
They were Robbed! Scoring by the Middlemost to Attenuate Biased Judging in Boxing5
An Introduction to the James Quirk Special Issue and the Economics of Combat Sport5
Contest Outcome Uncertainty and Fan Decisions: A Meta-Analysis5
Skills vs. Luck: Decomposing Deviations from Expected Performance in European Football Leagues4
Pay for Performance in the Pool: Sink or Swim?4
When the Stars Are Out: The Impact of Missed Games on NBA Television Audiences4
Set-level Strategic and Psychological Momentum in Best-of-three-set Professional Tennis Matches4
Attractive or Aggressive? A Face Recognition and Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Returns to Visual Appearance4
The Effect of National Origin and Skin Color on Playing Time in the WNBA4
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
Risk-taking in contests with heterogeneous players and intermediate Information—Evidence from handball4
Do People Feel Healthier After Holding Sports Mega-Events? Evidence from the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games4
Football-Generated Rent Sharing and Expenditures on Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics3
Incentives and Strategic Behavior of Professional Boxers3
Sports Facilities as a Housing Amenity: Do Prices Follow Facilities?3
Fading Shooting Stars—The Relative Age Effect, Ability, and Foregone Market Values in German Elite Youth Soccer3
The Impact of Pool Sharing on the Distribution of Playing Talent in the N-Team Leagues3
Online Versus Offline eSports Tournaments: Prize Structure and Individual Performance3
Nontransitive Patterns in Long-Term Football Rivalries3
Offside Urban Echoes: Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Soccer and Crime in Medellin3
Domestic Competitive Imbalance as the “Price” of Surprise in the Champions League3
Intergalactic Peer Effects: The Role of Teammates in StarCraft 23
A Note on the Preferences of Sports Fans: Partisanship Versus Uncertainty of Outcome3
Gendered Consequences of COVID-19 Among Professional Tennis Players3
Crowds and Managerial Decisions in European Football Leagues3
In Memoriam: W. David Allen3
Immediate Impacts of Air Pollution on the Performance of Football Players3
Rottenberg at Sixty-Five: In Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Sports Economics2
The Golden Ticket: Examining the Impact of Winning the Western States Endurance Run Lottery on Subsequent Ultramarathon Performance and Travel Decisions2
The Relevance of Betting Market Outcome Uncertainty: Decided Wagers and Television Viewership Loss2
Compensating Tendencies in Disciplinary Sanctions: The Case of Hurling2
Compensating Differentials for the Risk of Reinjury – Lessons from Professional Boxing2
Revisiting the Effect of Hosting Large-Scale Sport Events on International Tourist Inflows2
City Marathon Events and Tourism Industry: A Quasi-Natural Experiment2
Optimal Timeout Choices in Clutch Situations in the NBA2
Externalities of Violence: The Effects of National Hockey League Fighting on Youth Hockey Participation2
Real Options Applied to Consumer Goods: Maximizing Profits and Fan Welfare2
Umpire Home Bias in Major League Baseball2
Substitution Effects and the Transnational Demand for European Soccer Telecasts2
Winning at Home? Gender Inequality, Corruption, and the Host Country’s Olympic Success2
Analyzing the Impact of the 2010 Soccer World Cup on South Africa: A Synthetic Control Method2
Wages, Talent, and Demand for NCAA Sport After the Alston v. NCAA Antitrust Case2
Cross-Quality Impacts of NCAA Division I Baseball and Softball2
Raising the Bar: Causal Evidence on Gender Differences in Risk-Taking From a Natural Experiment2
For A Brighter Tomorrow—A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Athletes’ International Migration2
With the Game on the (Betting) Line: NBA Referee Performance in the Last Two Minutes2
Objective Calls Under the Spotlight: Referee Consistency and Behaviour on Football's Biggest Stage2
Participation in Competitive Sports Closes Gender Gaps in Competition and in Risk Taking2
Willingness to Pay for Hosting Formula One2
Scoring Benefits to Eastward Travel in the NBA2
Do Jockeys “Look to” or “Rest on” Their Laurels After a Sequence of Winning Rides?2
The Effect of Basketball Analytics Investment on National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Performance2
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