European Sport Management Quarterly

Papers
(The H4-Index of European Sport Management Quarterly is 19. 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
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games49
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis43
Conformity to institutional logics and organizational strength of voluntary sport clubs40
Theoretical foundations for service innovation research in sport management – insights from nonprofit sport organisations40
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement38
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management34
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part31
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic30
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security28
Fitness switching costs scale (FSCS): development and assessment of higher-order reflective-formative scale25
The relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and perceived organisational performance in professional sports organisations25
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach23
Gender-specific impact of age diversity on the performance of small teams: empirical evidence from professional biathlon relays23
Topic mining of real-time discussions: what catches the attention of live-streaming esports viewers?22
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing21
Leveraging sport events for sustainable sport participation: how schools contribute to sport development through events21
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy21
Advancing women’s cycling through digital activism: a feminist critical discourse analysis21
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League20
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