OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	164
Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	32
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	29
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	21
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	20
Moving from barriers to collaborative action: supporting social change in community sport through action research with club leaders	19
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology	18
‘At least you got to see people when you went out for a walk’: older adults’ lived, embodied experiences during COVID-19 times in the United Kingdom	18
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	18
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	17
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk	17
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV	16
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	16
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	15
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	15
Correction	14
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	13
Exploring parents’, coaches’, and children’s experiences and perceived outcomes in preschooler sport	13
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	12
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	12
‘It’s easier to just keep going’: elaborating on a narrative of forward momentum in sport	12
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	12
Perceptions and experiences of exercise participation among persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A qualitative study	11
Reaching out: help-seeking among professional male ice hockey athletes	10
Understanding workplace collaboration in professional rugby coaching: a dramaturgical analysis	10

Physical activity participation among children diagnosed with mental health disorders: A qualitative analysis of children’s and their guardian’s perspectives	9
Exploring the leisure time physical activity (LTPA) experiences of women with a physical disability in India	9
Drawing strength: evaluating the Tidda Talk programme through comparative body mapping with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women	9
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China	9
Understanding the career experiences and reflections of Special Olympics Canada’s National Team Program coaches	9
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies	9
A process map of flourishing between the coach and athlete in Canadian university sport	9
A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Experiences of Life Skills Development in Physical Education	9
Re-signifying HIV through exercise: from death sentence stigma to healthy self-perception	9
Co-produced research that bridges the ‘Knowledge Gap’ to support physical activity participation in disabled children and young people with limb difference	9
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: a discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media	8
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	8
“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces	8
Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis	8
“My biggest learning curve:” an interpretive phenomenological analysis of coaches’ experiences of working with athletes who experience a menstrual cycle	8
Grow through what you go through: a multiple-case study of competitive bodybuilders’ experiences of learning to manage the demands of their engagement in the sport	8
Moral, health, and aesthetic risks: performance-enhancing drug use and the culture of silence in the UK strongwoman community	7
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being	7
Athletes with intellectual impairments and their support personnel’s experience of anti-doping	7
(Re)claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures	7
A case study of alcohol use among male university rugby players	7
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport	7
Running blind: the sensory practices of visually impaired runners	6
The stigma and challenges faced by retired professional male rugby players	6
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project	6
Choose your own story: creative non-fiction about athletes attempting to qualify for the Olympics	6
Creating space for meaningful physical activity at home: women’s stories of social interaction, micro-adventure, and the joy of feeling strong	6
Pumping iron for strength and power: prisoners’ perceptions of a stable body	6
A critical discourse analysis of racial narratives from White athletes attending a historically Black college/University	6
An exploration of the perceptions and experiences of professional ballet dancers using a wellness monitoring application	5
‘You made us feel at home’: towards Indigenous feminist methodologies with young wāhine in sport and exercise	5
Repairing relationship conflict in community sport work: “Offender” perspectives	5
Women moving forward in pictures: using digital photographs to explore postpartum women’s physical activity experiences	5
Motherhood and competitive coaching: six stories of generational differences in persisting and resisting gender inequities in sport	5
‘I like to run to feel’: embodiment and wearable mobile tracking devices in distance running	5
Developing 'whole people': a case-study of a sports-friendly school	4
Understanding coaches’ perspectives on building trust in sport: a narrative inquiry approach	4
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	4
“More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults	4
Gatekeeping and ableism in physical education provision for disabled children: perspectives and practices	4
A sport research teams’ reflections on conducting emotionally demanding research with the bereaved	4
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres: a critical discourses analysis	4
Landscape of practice: a participatory approach to creating a trauma- and violence-informed physical activity social learning space	4
Concussion in professional wrestling: agency, structure and cultural change	4
All roads lead to Rome? Talent narratives of elite athletes, musicians, and mathematicians	4
What helps cardiac patients exercise after treatment, and when? Understanding physical activity and exercise participation following exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation	4
Paying attention to tension: studying the perspectives of health care workers, sports club volunteers, and people with type 2 diabetes, engaged in public-civil physical activity collaboration	4
Combining crystallisation and creative non-fiction to develop new insights on the politically astute use of humour in sports coaching	4
“Everyone does it but no one really wants to talk about it”: roles and meanings of bodily secretions in the confines of distance running groups	4
Abandoned to manage the post-Olympic blues: Olympians reflect on their experiences and the need for a change	3

Inescapable tensions: performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption	3
“I am strong, I am fast, I am powerful”: a creative art-based application of body self-compassion with racialised young women athletes in Canada	3
A qualitative exploration of exercise blog believability among emerging adult women	3
Participatory research with young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a reflective account	3
Beyond life-skills: talented athletes, existential learning and (Un)learning the life of an athlete	3
Searching for ontological security: women’s experiences leading to high drive for muscularity	3
The fitness boom and the pursuit of body ideals: domesticating the use of smartwatches in Ghanaian fitness spaces	3
Whiteness, Canadian university athletic administration, and anti-racism leadership: ‘A bunch of white haired, white dudes in the back rooms’	3
The role of athlete support personnel in preventing doping: a qualitative study of a rugby union academy	3
Understanding parents’ motives for, and beliefs about, enrolling three-to-five-year-old children into organised sporting programs	3