OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Sport Management Quarterly is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	44
Gender-specific impact of age diversity on the performance of small teams: empirical evidence from professional biathlon relays	42
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	42
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	40
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	36
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	35
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	32
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	30
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	27
You’ll never want to watch alone: the effect of displaying in-stadium social atmospherics on media consumers’ responses to new sport leagues across different types of media	25
Examining the development of human rights strategies for large-scale sport events: the case of the United Bid for the FIFA Men’s World Cup 2026	25
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	24
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	24
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	23
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	22
Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations	20
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	20
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	19
Examining the relationships between brand knowledge, brand responses and brand resonance in sports leagues within the scope of consumer-based brand equity	18
The societal impact of elite sport: positives and negatives: introduction to ESMQ special issue	17
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	16
Agency and institutions in sport	15
Event leverage: a systematic literature review and new research agenda	13
‘We shouldn’t have to ask’: exploring the realities of minority ethnic women football spectators	13
Facilitating sporting and non-sporting career goals of elite athletes through mentoring programmes	13

‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	12
Paying while playing: examining the influence of interaction with gamified elements in fantasy sports on in-app spending	12
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	12
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management	12
When calling and overwork climate collide: the effect on burnout and intention to change careers	12
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	12
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	11
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	11
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	11
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	11
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	11
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	10
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	10
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	10
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	10
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	10
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	10
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	10
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	9
A monetary valuation of hosting a sport mega-event via residential real estate markets in small host communities: evidence from post-event analysis	9
Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds	9
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	9
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	9
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	9
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	9
A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia	8
Service quality and its effects on consumer outcomes: a meta-analytic review in spectator sport	8
Product meanings and consumer behavior in sport entertainment: the case of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)	8
Sport media has an audience measurement problem	8
Do consumers care about human brands?: A case study of using Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) to map two athletes’ engagements in social and political advocacy	8
Sport organizations under tension: dynamic capabilities and resilience building during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Assessing the psychological pathways of esports events spectators: an application of service quality and its antecedents and consequences	8
Utilizing a theory of racialized organizations within sport management research and practice	8
The legitimacy work of institutional disruption and maintenance: examining the rivalry between LIV golf and the professional golf association	8
Public attitudes toward athlete activism in sport: utilizing a multivariate list experiment to address social desirability bias in survey responses	8
Governing the paradox of success in a hybrid supporter-owned professional football club	7
Awards are career catalysts for young talents in association football	7
The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance	7
Women’s volleyball demand across different distribution channels	7
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	7
From utilitarianism and neoclassical sport management to a new geopolitical economy of sport	7
The relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and perceived organisational performance in professional sports organisations	7
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	7
Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships	6
Local resident support for hosting a major sport event: the role of perceived personal and community impacts	6
Partnerships in collegiate sport clubs: a social exchange perspective	6
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	6
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	6
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	5
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	5

Processes of political, cultural, and social fragmentation: changes in the macro-environment of sport policy and management: c.1980–c.2022	5
Industry hierarchy in team sport industries, team tactics and competitive advantage: the empty goal option in league handball	5
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	5
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
Beyond the host nation: an investigation of trickle-down effects in the ‘Hometowns’ of Canadian athletes who competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games	5
A three-dimensional model of innovation within Flemish non-profit sports organisations	5
Saturday in the stadium: on higher attendance on Saturdays in Norwegian Eliteserien soccer league	4
Sport management: mission and meaning for a new era	4
Survival of fitness clubs: customer experience quality as a competitive resource	4
Achieving gender equity: barriers and possibilities at board level in Swedish sport	4
Non-profit sports club volunteers: same, same, but different or one and the same?	4
Conceptualising the inspirational effect of elite sport: a case study of field hockey in Belgium	4
Naming the ghost of capitalism in sport management	4
Fan and fantasy: investigating the impact of fantasy sports on sports fan identity	4
Football volunteering and subjective well-being: a multi-country study of different voluntary roles and well-being measures	4
Toward an enduring football economy: a business model taxonomy for Europe's professional football clubs	4
Predicting transfer fees in professional European football before and during COVID-19 using machine learning	4
Host community salience loss across major sport event planning	4
The social value of co-hosting: rethinking the management of sports events	4
National sport organization governance design archetypes for the twenty-first century	4
The personal is professional: exploring romantic relationship within the socioecology of an athlete brand	3
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing	3
Managing the compliance of national federations: an examination of the strategies of international Olympic sports federations	3
A re-inquiry of the emotion spillover effect using psychophysiological approaches: how game outcome and process influence cognitive processing of TV commercial	3
The impact of perceived corporate social responsibility on value-in-use through customer engagement in non-profit sports clubs: the moderating role of co-production	3
Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: a comparison of emerging sports and esports programs	3
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	3
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	3
Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions	3
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	3
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	3
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	3
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part	3
Multi-club ownerships (MCOs): a critical analysis of transfer dynamics and sports integrity	3
Managing and sustaining cross-sector leveraging partnership in the post-event era: a case study of a provincial parasport collective	3