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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Moments of Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer73
Contest Outcome Uncertainty and Fan Decisions: A Meta-Analysis19
The Golden Ticket: Examining the Impact of Winning the Western States Endurance Run Lottery on Subsequent Ultramarathon Performance and Travel Decisions16
Property Rights Freedom and Innovation: Eponymous Skills in Women's Gymnastics15
Disaggregated Attendance Demand: Comparing Daily Ticket Purchasers and Season Ticket Holders in K-League 114
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball14
The Emergence of Mixed Martial-Arts and the Future of Boxing: An Analysis of Consumer Interest and Compensation13
About the “Away Goals Rule” in Association Football. Does Scrapping the Rule Increase the Fairness of the Game?13
Are Foreigners at Disadvantage in a Global Labor Market?12
Revisiting the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis and the Loss Aversion Hypothesis in the National Basketball Association: Adding a Predicted Game Quality Perspective10
Compensating Differentials for the Risk of Reinjury – Lessons from Professional Boxing9
You’ve Got Three Choices: Give in, Give up, or Give it All You’ve Got: Does Contest Heterogeneity Affect Effort in Individual Competitions?9
Exploring the Market of Soccer Player Registrations: An Empirical Analysis of the Difference Between Transfer Fees and Estimated Players’ Inherent Value9
Who Benefitted From the PyeongChang Olympic Announcement? Evidence From the South Korean Stock Market8
You Booze, You Lose? Spillovers to Crime from Alcohol Sales at College Football Games8
A Note on the Preferences of Sports Fans: Partisanship Versus Uncertainty of Outcome8
Sports Facilities as a Housing Amenity: Do Prices Follow Facilities?8
Game Day Traffic and Sports: Evidence From Yankee Stadium in the Bronx7
The Spread of Integration in Major League Baseball7
Interest in Sports and Sports Betting7
“And Yet…”: Title IX Fifty Years on An Introduction7
Sports-based Entertainment and Crime Evidence from Football Games in Brazil7
International Competitions, Star Players, and NWSL Attendance7
A Mere Fan Effect on Home-Court Advantage6
The Iron Curtain and Referee Bias in International Football6
Professional Labor Markets in the Journal of Sports Economics5
How COVID-19 Affected Participation in Ultramarathons: Gender, Risk Aversion, and Travel5
A comparative study of scoring systems by simulations5
Higher, Faster, Further: Performance Heterogeneity and Social Facilitation in Professional Track and Field5
James Patrick Quirk: An Academic Obituary5
The Journal of Sports Economics: 20 Years and Counting5
In Memoriam: W. David Allen5
Can Professional Football Players Adapt to Air Pollution? Evidence From China4
Substitution Effects and the Transnational Demand for European Soccer Telecasts4
Participation in Competitive Sports Closes Gender Gaps in Competition and in Risk Taking4
The Effects of Crowds on Professional European Basketball Teams4
An Introduction to the James Quirk Special Issue and the Economics of Combat Sport4
When Falling Just Short is a Good Thing: The Effect of Past Performance on Improvement4
Compensating Tendencies in Disciplinary Sanctions: The Case of Hurling4
Stock Markets’ Reactions to the Announcement of the Hosts. An Event Study in the Analysis of Large Sporting Events in the Years 1976–20324
The Amenity Value of Sports Facilities: Evidence From the Staples Center in Los Angeles4
Sports Mega-Events and Economic Growth: A Synthetic Control Approach3
Battle of the Sexes Over Fans—Is Men’s Soccer a Substitute for Women’s Soccer?3
Reply to the Caves et al. Comment on “Moving the Needle in MMA: On the Marginal Revenue Product of UFC Fighters”3
Expecting the Expected? Documenting Nostalgia Effects on Baseball Card Prices3
Integration and Team Performance in the NBA3
Umpire Home Bias in Major League Baseball3
The Hot Hand in the NBA 3-Point Contest: The Importance of Location, Location, Location3
Domestic Competitive Imbalance as the “Price” of Surprise in the Champions League3
Where to Go Next? Examining the Effect of Franchise Expansion and Location on Game-Level Attendance in Major League Soccer3
Match-Level Uncertainty in Professional Tennis Revisited—A Novel Approach Applied for the Time Between 2010 and 20193
Should I Stay or Should I Go Pro? Early NFL Draft Entry by NCAA FBS Underclassmen3
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effect of NIL and Transfer Rule Changes on College Basketball Players Entering the NBA Draft3
Offside Urban Echoes: Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Soccer and Crime in Medellin3
Measuring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Elite Swimming Performance3
Does it pay to Play by the Rules? Respect for Rule of law, Control of Corruption, and National Success at the Summer Olympics3
Outcome Uncertainty and Viewer Demand for Basic Cable Boxing2
The Value of College Athletics in the Labor Market: Results from a Resume Audit Field Experiment2
Does Draft Currency Promote Competitive Balance? An Empirical Investigation of the National Football League 2002–20212
Does the Dual Representation System of Player Agents in International Football Benefit Players? An Economic Analysis2
A Dynamic Analysis of Equal Revenue Sharing and Endogenous Salary Caps in the N-Team Leagues2
Homegrown Heroes: The Impact of Locally Born Hockey Players on Attendance and Revenue in the National Hockey League2
Ranking in Incomplete Tournaments: The Generalized Win Percentage Method, Efficiency, and NCAA Football2
Wage Dispersion and Team Performance: The Moderation Role of Club Size2
Suspense and Surprise: The Role of Bookmakers’ Spreads2
Optimal Timeout Choices in Clutch Situations in the NBA2
Performance Quality Preference Heterogeneity in Major League Baseball2
From Madrid to Mecca: Wage Premiums in a Specialized Labor Market2
The Flutie and Anti-Flutie Effect: The Impact of Football Championships and Athletic Malfeasance on the University2
Using Orthodromic Distance to Determine Homefield Advantage in Professional Bass Fishing Tournaments2
The Effect of Basketball Analytics Investment on National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Performance2
Serena, Simone, and Semenya: After 50 Years, the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX2
Corruption and Self-Sabotage in Sporting Competitions – An Experimental Approach to Match-Fixing Behavior and the Influence of Deterrence Factors2
The Designated Player Policy Rule and Attendance Demand in Major League Soccer2
Determinants of Career Exits and Career Breaks in Women's Professional Basketball2
Set-level Strategic and Psychological Momentum in Best-of-three-set Professional Tennis Matches1
Time to Say Goodbye: A Duration Analysis of the Determinants of Coach Dismissals and Quits in Major League Soccer1
The Income Elasticity of Gross Sports Betting Revenues in Nevada: Short-Run and Long-Run Estimates1
Salary Cap, Organizational Gap, and Catch-up in the Performance of NBA Teams: A Two-Stage DEA Model Under Heterogeneity1
Attractive or Aggressive? A Face Recognition and Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Returns to Visual Appearance1
Rottenberg at Sixty-Five: In Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Sports Economics1
Hot Shots: An Analysis of the “Hot Hand” in NBA Field Goal and Free Throw Shooting1
On the Value of a Premium College Football Player: Evaluating the Literature1
The Wellbeing Valuation Approach: The Monetary Value of Sport Participation and Volunteering for Different Life Satisfaction Measures and Estimators1
Remote Viewership of International Sporting Events and Crime: Evidence From Jamaica1
Do People Feel Healthier After Holding Sports Mega-Events? Evidence from the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games1
Does Crowd Support Drive the Home Advantage in Professional Football? Evidence from German Ghost Games during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Sex Differences in High-Level Managerial Jobs: Evidence From Professional Basketball1
The S-Score of Financial Sustainability for Professional Football Clubs1
Offensive/Defensive Talent and Sporting Success in Football: Evidence From the Big Five European Leagues1
Raising the Bar: Causal Evidence on Gender Differences in Risk-Taking From a Natural Experiment1
Do Jockeys “Look to” or “Rest on” Their Laurels After a Sequence of Winning Rides?1
Mass Gathering Sport Events and the Spread of Viral Respiratory Infection: Japanese Professional Baseball and Influenza1
Immediate Impacts of Air Pollution on the Performance of Football Players1
Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment1
Are the Lowest-Paid UFC Fighters Really Overpaid? A Comment on Gift (2019)1
Revisiting the Effect of Hosting Large-Scale Sport Events on International Tourist Inflows1
Oldies but Goldies! Twenty Years After, the Journal of Sports Economics at a Crossroads?1
European Men's Club Football in the Eyes of Consumers: The Determinants of Television Broadcast Demand1
Competitive Balance in the Post-2024 Champions League and the European Super League: A Simulation Study1
Market Efficiency and Censoring Bias in College Football Gambling1
What is the Impact of Post-Season Bowl Participation on a Football Program's On-Field Success, Recruiting and Revenues?1
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