OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Sport Management Quarterly is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	49
Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis	43
Conformity to institutional logics and organizational strength of voluntary sport clubs	40
Theoretical foundations for service innovation research in sport management – insights from nonprofit sport organisations	40
Understanding how individuals engage in match-fixing: the role of moral disengagement	38
Moral disengagement and sport integrity: identifying and mitigating integrity breaches in sport management	34
Participant engagement in running events and why it matters who else takes part	31
Professional athlete responses to new product development: A dialectic	30
Human resource retention in sport: The impact of self-reflective job titles on job burnout and security	28
Fitness switching costs scale (FSCS): development and assessment of higher-order reflective-formative scale	25
The relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and perceived organisational performance in professional sports organisations	25
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach	23
Gender-specific impact of age diversity on the performance of small teams: empirical evidence from professional biathlon relays	23
Topic mining of real-time discussions: what catches the attention of live-streaming esports viewers?	22
Leveraging sport events for sustainable sport participation: how schools contribute to sport development through events	21
Environmental matters in sport: sustainable research in the academy	21
Advancing women’s cycling through digital activism: a feminist critical discourse analysis	21
On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing	21
The effects of overseas exhibition games on consumer interest: the case of the English Premier League	20
Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for ‘secondary’ consumers: expert coaches’ perceptions of parent–coach collaboration	17
Towards hosting multi-country sport mega-events: the case of the bidding process of the 2030 FIFA Men’s World Cup	16
The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance	16
Sport-for-All policies in sport federations: an institutional theory perspective	16
Female officials in Europe and their sport’s diversity climate	15
The determinants of stadium attendance in elite women’s football: evidence from the FA Women’s Super League	14

Demand for Chinese Super League Broadcast: An Analysis of Broadcasters’ Match Selection and TV Ratings	13
Local resident support for hosting a major sport event: the role of perceived personal and community impacts	12
The determinants of Muslim women's pro-sport Hijab purchase intention: a theory of planned behavior perspective	12
Multi-club ownerships (MCOs): a critical analysis of transfer dynamics and sports integrity	12
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	12
Blind football and sporting capital: managing and sustaining participation among youth blind football players in Zimbabwe	12
When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football	11
No long-term consequences for social irresponsibility? Adidas’ rent incident during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	11
Managing and sustaining cross-sector leveraging partnership in the post-event era: a case study of a provincial parasport collective	11
Success interrupted: exploring how supporters interpret their team's success in a postponed competition	11
Racial and gender inequality regimes in sport: occupational segregation and wage gaps in the U.S. spectator sports industry	10
An expanded psychological capital (A-HERO) construct for creativity: building a competitive advantage for sport organisations	10
Exploring volunteer engagement in a mega sport events: the role of functional attitudes	10
Multi-dimensional framework as a new way to study the management of Olympic volunteering	10
When team sponsorship of cause-related messages leads to unfavorable fan reactions: the interplay among competency, cause orientation, and message source	10
Audience perceptions of athletes’ brand self-presentation on social media	10
Trust in fairness, doping, and the demand for sports: a study on international track and field events	9
Code Red for Elite Sport. A critique of sustainability in elite sport and a tentative reform programme	9
Enhancing on-pitch learning capabilities with data analytics and technologies in elite sports	9
Women’s football subculture of misogyny: the escalation to online gender-based violence	9
Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions	8
The persuasive impact of athlete racial advocacy on individuals’ cognitive responses: evidence from survey experiments in Japan	8
Organizational experience and cost-cutting agreements in the Formula One industry: a dynamic capabilities approach	8
How did regular sports bettors behave during covid-19 lockdown? Evidence from Poland	8
The professionalization tension in women’s sport: the case of women’s basketball in Australia	8
A re-inquiry of the emotion spillover effect using psychophysiological approaches: how game outcome and process influence cognitive processing of TV commercial	8
Awards are career catalysts for young talents in association football	8