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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball22
The Iron Curtain and Referee Bias in International Football22
A Mere Fan Effect on Home-Court Advantage20
Moments of Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer18
How COVID-19 Affected Participation in Ultramarathons: Gender, Risk Aversion, and Travel16
Should I Stay or Should I Go Pro? Early NFL Draft Entry by NCAA FBS Underclassmen16
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effect of NIL and Transfer Rule Changes on College Basketball Players Entering the NBA Draft15
Does Draft Currency Promote Competitive Balance? An Empirical Investigation of the National Football League 2002–202113
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
Performance Quality Preference Heterogeneity in Major League Baseball11
Suspense and Surprise: The Role of Bookmakers’ Spreads11
A Dynamic Analysis of Equal Revenue Sharing and Endogenous Salary Caps in the N-Team Leagues10
Integration and Team Performance in the NBA9
Wage Dispersion and Team Performance: The Moderation Role of Club Size9
Remote Viewership of International Sporting Events and Crime: Evidence From Jamaica8
Where to Go Next? Examining the Effect of Franchise Expansion and Location on Game-Level Attendance in Major League Soccer8
Serena, Simone, and Semenya: After 50 Years, the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX8
Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment7
Mass Gathering Sport Events and the Spread of Viral Respiratory Infection: Japanese Professional Baseball and Influenza7
UEFA Against the Champions? An Evaluation of the Recent Reform of the Champions League Qualification7
The Importance of Team Fit for NBA Rookies’ Career Earnings6
Different Strokes: Winning Strategies in Women's (and Men's) Big Bash Cricket6
Salary Cap, Organizational Gap, and Catch-up in the Performance of NBA Teams: A Two-Stage DEA Model Under Heterogeneity6
You Booze, You Lose? Spillovers to Crime from Alcohol Sales at College Football Games5
Exploitation in College Sports: No Longer Just a “Man's Game”5
Emotional Cues and the Demand for Televised Sports: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League5
False Start? An Analysis of NFL Penalties With and Without Crowds5
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
Do People Feel Healthier After Holding Sports Mega-Events? Evidence from the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games4
Sports Mega-Events and Economic Growth: A Synthetic Control Approach4
The Effects of Crowds on Professional European Basketball Teams4
Expecting the Expected? Documenting Nostalgia Effects on Baseball Card Prices4
When the Stars Are Out: The Impact of Missed Games on NBA Television Audiences4
The Impact of Air Pollution on Game Outcome4
Disaggregated Attendance Demand: Comparing Daily Ticket Purchasers and Season Ticket Holders in K-League 14
An Introduction to the James Quirk Special Issue and the Economics of Combat Sport4
Stock Markets’ Reactions to the Announcement of the Hosts. An Event Study in the Analysis of Large Sporting Events in the Years 1976–20324
Are the Lowest-Paid UFC Fighters Really Overpaid? A Comment on Gift (2019)4
Set-level Strategic and Psychological Momentum in Best-of-three-set Professional Tennis Matches4
Contest Outcome Uncertainty and Fan Decisions: A Meta-Analysis4
The Emergence of Mixed Martial-Arts and the Future of Boxing: An Analysis of Consumer Interest and Compensation4
They were Robbed! Scoring by the Middlemost to Attenuate Biased Judging in Boxing4
Online Versus Offline eSports Tournaments: Prize Structure and Individual Performance3
Player Mobility and Competitive Balance Regulation in Professional Sports Leagues3
Pay for Performance in the Pool: Sink or Swim?3
Prevention Effect of News Shocks in Anti-Doping Policies3
Sports Facilities as a Housing Amenity: Do Prices Follow Facilities?3
Can Professional Football Players Adapt to Air Pollution? Evidence From China3
Attractive or Aggressive? A Face Recognition and Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Returns to Visual Appearance3
Football-Generated Rent Sharing and Expenditures on Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics3
The Effect of National Origin and Skin Color on Playing Time in the WNBA3
Nontransitive Patterns in Long-Term Football Rivalries3
A Note on the Preferences of Sports Fans: Partisanship Versus Uncertainty of Outcome3
Fading Shooting Stars—The Relative Age Effect, Ability, and Foregone Market Values in German Elite Youth Soccer3
Overshadowed by Popularity: The Value of Second-Tier Stars in European Football3
Risk-taking in contests with heterogeneous players and intermediate Information—Evidence from handball3
Gendered Consequences of COVID-19 Among Professional Tennis Players3
Property Rights Freedom and Innovation: Eponymous Skills in Women's Gymnastics3
Crowds and Managerial Decisions in European Football Leagues3
Incentives and Strategic Behavior of Professional Boxers3
COVID-19 Diffusion Before Awareness: The Role of Football Match Attendance in Italy2
The Impact of Pool Sharing on the Distribution of Playing Talent in the N-Team Leagues2
Optimal Timeout Choices in Clutch Situations in the NBA2
In Memoriam: W. David Allen2
Rottenberg at Sixty-Five: In Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Sports Economics2
Revisiting the Effect of Hosting Large-Scale Sport Events on International Tourist Inflows2
Does The Betting Industry Price Gender? Evidence from Professional Tennis2
City Marathon Events and Tourism Industry: A Quasi-Natural Experiment2
Immediate Impacts of Air Pollution on the Performance of Football Players2
Offside Urban Echoes: Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Soccer and Crime in Medellin2
Raising the Bar: Causal Evidence on Gender Differences in Risk-Taking From a Natural Experiment2
Willingness to Pay for Hosting Formula One2
Real Options Applied to Consumer Goods: Maximizing Profits and Fan Welfare2
For A Brighter Tomorrow—A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Athletes’ International Migration2
Cross-Quality Impacts of NCAA Division I Baseball and Softball2
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
Domestic Competitive Imbalance as the “Price” of Surprise in the Champions League2
The Effect of Basketball Analytics Investment on National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Performance2
Scoring Benefits to Eastward Travel in the NBA2
Wages, Talent, and Demand for NCAA Sport After the Alston v. NCAA Antitrust Case2
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