OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Sport Management Quarterly is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	50
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	46
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	46
Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	40
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	36
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	33
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	33
Professor Chris Gratton: an obituary	32
Understanding organisation public relations through Twitter communication for the European super league	28
Effect of toxicity and competitive psychological climate on team orientation and turnover intentions within sport employees	21
Internationalisation strategy in sport: the case of Flamengo, the largest Brazilian football club	21
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	20
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	19
Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement – new opportunities and challenges	18
Examining the relationships between brand knowledge, brand responses and brand resonance in sports leagues within the scope of consumer-based brand equity	17
The digital transformation of value co-creation: a scoping review towards an agenda for sport marketing research	17
Institutional work as response to institutional complexities in hybrid elite sport and sport for all organizations	16
How football Bundesliga matches affect traffic volume and carbon emissions	15
Environmental sustainability in sport: a systematic literature review	14
‘We shouldn’t have to ask’: exploring the realities of minority ethnic women football spectators	14
Elite athletes with disabilities marketability and branding strategies: professional agents’ perspectives	14
Agency and institutions in sport	14
Regional policy and organizational fields in multi-level sport governance	13
‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport	13
Event leverage: a systematic literature review and new research agenda	13

Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	12
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	12
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	12
When calling and overwork climate collide: the effect on burnout and intention to change careers	12
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	12
Paying while playing: examining the influence of interaction with gamified elements in fantasy sports on in-app spending	12
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	11
Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies	11
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	11
The financial challenges of hosting sports events: a problem of insufficient separation between decision-making and decision-control	11
Branding governance in international recurring sports events: the World Rugby ‘Sevens’ Series	10
Social impact of events: advancing insights on social impact scales	10
The shift in sports viewing: scale development and validation for mediated sports consumption motivation	10
Rethinking brand management within sport: advancing towards the integrative sport brand ecosystem (ISBE)	10
Exploring the collaborative governance of Olympic stadium renovations: a multiple case study	10
Assessing key performance indicators of corporate social responsibility initiatives in sport	9
Assessing the psychological pathways of esports events spectators: an application of service quality and its antecedents and consequences	9
Relational pluralism, organizational status, and the adoption of collegiate varsity esports programs in the US	9
A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia	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
Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective	9
Sport organizations under tension: dynamic capabilities and resilience building during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds	8
Sport media has an audience measurement problem	8
Major sport stadia, water resources and climate change: impacts and adaptation	8
Are sport organisations environmentally sustainable? – A website analysis of sport federations in Belgium	8
The legitimacy work of institutional disruption and maintenance: examining the rivalry between LIV golf and the professional golf association	7
Utilizing a theory of racialized organizations within sport management research and practice	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
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
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	6
From utilitarianism and neoclassical sport management to a new geopolitical economy of sport	6
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	6
Awards are career catalysts for young talents in association football	6
Women’s volleyball demand across different distribution channels	6
Watching football highlights on YouTube: the determinants of demand for short videos	6
The relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and perceived organisational performance in professional sports organisations	6
Investigating top-down and bottom-up strategic alignment of event leveraging outcomes: the case of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships	5
How differences between a sport club’s public portrayal of fan centricity and fans’ perceptions relate to fan engagement	5
A study of event brand image, destination image, event, and destination loyalty among international sport tourists	5
Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach	5
eSports: the need for a structured support system for players	5
Survival of fitness clubs: customer experience quality as a competitive resource	5
Athlete activism and attendance behavior in the National Football League	5
Industry hierarchy in team sport industries, team tactics and competitive advantage: the empty goal option in league handball	5
Host community salience loss across major sport event planning	5
Processes of political, cultural, and social fragmentation: changes in the macro-environment of sport policy and management: c.1980–c.2022	5
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	5
Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event?	5

Achieving gender equity: barriers and possibilities at board level in Swedish sport	4
Fan and fantasy: investigating the impact of fantasy sports on sports fan identity	4
Predicting transfer fees in professional European football before and during COVID-19 using machine learning	4
Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: a comparison of emerging sports and esports programs	4
Non-profit sports club volunteers: same, same, but different or one and the same?	4
Saturday in the stadium: on higher attendance on Saturdays in Norwegian Eliteserien soccer league	4
Toward an enduring football economy: a business model taxonomy for Europe's professional football clubs	4
Football volunteering and subjective well-being: a multi-country study of different voluntary roles and well-being measures	4
The social value of co-hosting: rethinking the management of sports events	4
Naming the ghost of capitalism in sport management	4
Managing the compliance of national federations: an examination of the strategies of international Olympic sports federations	4
The personal is professional: exploring romantic relationship within the socioecology of an athlete brand	4