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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	100
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	33
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	33
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	29
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	28
Climate risks in motorsport: setting boundary conditions in Formula 1	27
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	22
How do we measure sport employee grit? a multi-study examination of the nomological network and validity of the Employee Grit Scale-Sport Employees (EGS-SE)	19
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	19
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	18
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	18
Understanding cross-cultural interactions and diversity in professional sports organizations: the case of football and forced migration in Germany and Italy	18
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	17
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	17
Misogyny, misogynoir and violent online rhetoric against women and girls in sport: the case of Joey Barton	16
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	15
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	15
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	14
Multi-club ownership and sporting success: myth, expectation, and evidence	14
How football Bundesliga matches affect traffic volume and carbon emissions	14
Agency and institutions in sport	14
Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations	14
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
Paying while playing: examining the influence of interaction with gamified elements in fantasy sports on in-app spending	12

‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	12
Forecasting the future of sports media production: a Delphi study on the role of emerging technologies	12
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	12
When calling and overwork climate collide: the effect on burnout and intention to change careers	11
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	11
Exploring shared experiences as citizen sport diplomats: a collaborative self-ethnography	10
The effect of sport event participation on well-being: the role of running for charity	10
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	10
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	9
Male homosociality and the overrepresentation of men as leaders in sport organizations	9
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	9
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	9
Sport media has an audience measurement problem	8
A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia	8
A monetary valuation of hosting a sport mega-event via residential real estate markets in small host communities: evidence from post-event analysis	8
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	8
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	8
Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds	8
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	8
Assessing the psychological pathways of esports events spectators: an application of service quality and its antecedents and consequences	7
Sociocultural processes and outcomes in the integration of a semi-professional women’s team into a professional men’s football club in Scandinavia	7
Media exposure and gendered participation: evidence on Olympic trickle-down effects in Korea	7
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	7
Sport organizations under tension: dynamic capabilities and resilience building during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The legitimacy work of institutional disruption and maintenance: examining the rivalry between LIV golf and the professional golf association	6
Women’s volleyball demand across different distribution channels	6
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	6
Place branding through sport events: a systematic review and future directions	6
Public attitudes toward athlete activism in sport: utilizing a multivariate list experiment to address social desirability bias in survey responses	6
Governing the paradox of success in a hybrid supporter-owned professional football club	6
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	6
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	6
Athletes as advocates: the role of parasocial interaction and fictional involvement in social media advocacy	6
Utilizing a theory of racialized organizations within sport management research and practice	6
The Effect of Consumers' Self-Presentation on Luxury Sports Brand Consumption	6
Awards are career catalysts for young talents in association football	6
Watching football highlights on YouTube: the determinants of demand for short videos	6
Visual identity in digital sport fandom: a data-driven framework for identity transformation	6
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	5
Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships	5
Achieving gender equity: barriers and possibilities at board level in Swedish sport	5
The influence of perceived commercialization and authenticity on fan engagement: insights from men’s and women’s elite football leagues in Sweden	5
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	5
Survival of fitness clubs: customer experience quality as a competitive resource	5
How differences between a sport club’s public portrayal of fan centricity and fans’ perceptions relate to fan engagement	5
Strategic branding in sport tourism: the role of value co-creation and tourist evangelism in non-mega sport events	5
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
Host community salience loss across major sport event planning	5
Beyond the game outcomes: how does ‘What If?’ influence fan engagement?	5
A new approach to understanding crisis communication in sport: a news media analysis of the European super league crisis	4

Football volunteering and subjective well-being: a multi-country study of different voluntary roles and well-being measures	4
The personal is professional: exploring romantic relationship within the socioecology of an athlete brand	4
Predicting transfer fees in professional European football before and during COVID-19 using machine learning	4
Fan and fantasy: investigating the impact of fantasy sports on sports fan identity	4
Evolution of collaborative Olympic legacy governance: PyeongChang 2018 to Gangwon 2024	4
Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: a comparison of emerging sports and esports programs	4
Professional league team naming and firm value: evidence from China	4
Non-profit sports club volunteers: same, same, but different or one and the same?	4
Managing the compliance of national federations: an examination of the strategies of international Olympic sports federations	4
Determining the price of football: an analysis of matchday ticket prices in the English Premier League	3
What to address and with whom to partner: examining the interactive effects of perceived fit in team – corporate social partnerships	3
Multi-club ownerships (MCOs): a critical analysis of transfer dynamics and sports integrity	3
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	3
Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions	3
Mapping values in sport clubs: towards a conceptual typology for understanding the bettering of grassroots sport governance	3
COVID and the crisis: the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of elite athletes and their thoughts about career ending	3
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	3
Public funding for new football stadia: overinvestment and underutilisation in Hungarian football	3
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	3
Impacts of career commitment, gender, and job position on turnover intentions among athletic department employees: a moderated mediation model	3
No crowd, no roar, no home advantage: evidence from ice hockey	3
Reimagining elite sport through the lens of degrowth	3
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	3
Relationship quality in sport: a systematic quantitative literature review	3
Technology adoption and bias in officiating: automated Ball-Strike System implementation in Korean Baseball	3