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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Constructing a grounded theory of grit in sport: understanding the development and outcomes of long-term passion and perseverance in competitive athletes	134
Navigating the body’s double nature in a sedentary environment: Swedish primary school children’s use of physical activity during the school day	29
Understanding coaches’ perspectives on building trust in sport: a narrative inquiry approach	27
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres: a critical discourses analysis	25
Landscape of practice: a participatory approach to creating a trauma- and violence-informed physical activity social learning space	18
Capital game: male athletes’ rationalisation of playing hurt and reproduction of the risk, pain, and injury custom in professional combat sports	17
Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport	16
Is doping really a problem? How sponsors make sense of a sport with a dubious image	15
‘The second I got the phone call, everything changed.’ Exploring the temporal experiences of the spouses and partners of spinal cord injured sportsmen	15
Thinking again about the use of think aloud and stimulated recall methods in sport coaching	15
Am I becoming better? A life-long and life-wide analysis of sport coaches’ ecological realities and (mal)adaptation in the workplace	14
Beyond Caster as object? Examining media constructions of Caster Semenya through decolonial thinking	14
Identities and moralities in social networks. A digital ethnography of running in contemporary society	14
You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being	13
“Women shouldn’t play rugby” – the gendered and embodied experiences of women players in rugby union	12
Remembering learning to play: reworking gendered memories of sport, physical activity, and movement	12
A qualitative study of factors influencing adult stakeholder concussion communication with youth athletes	11
Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes	11
Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology	11
‘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	10
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	10
From the boardroom to the clubhouse: using a novel qualitative data collection method to inform interviews exploring the role of golf club membership in the retirement transition process	10
Fighting forward: purpose as a form of resilience for combat sport athletes	9
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	9
Perceptions of community-based online exercise programming for persons with multiple sclerosis during COVID-19: A qualitative case study	8

Shaping (queer) orientations: affective experiences and professional changes of a transgender and intersex teacher in physical education	8
‘Coach, or female coach? And does it matter?’: An autoethnography of playing the gendered game over a twenty-year elite swim coaching career	8
‘I’m not the police’: practical strategies for sport coach mentors to develop trust and trustworthiness	8
‘That’s how I am dealing with it – thatisdealing with it’: exploring men athletes’ self-compassion through the lens of masculinity	8
Exclusion, inclusion and belonging in mainstream and disability sport: Jack’s story	8
Making sense of humour among men in a weight-loss program: A dialogical narrative approach	7
Moral, health, and aesthetic risks: performance-enhancing drug use and the culture of silence in the UK strongwoman community	7
Co-creating knowledge on bicycling: a decolonial feminist participatory action research approach to arts-based methods	7
“What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences	7
Co-producing a physical activity intervention with and for people with severe mental ill health – the spaces story	7
‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: an autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete	7
A case study of alcohol use among male university rugby players	7
Down with the Thickness?: Male Olympic Weightlifters’ Negotiations of Weight Class, Strength, & Body Composition	7
Identifying best-practice amongst health professionals who work with people using image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) through participatory action research	7
Exploring athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with and understanding of classification in Para sport	6
Stories of acceptance and resistance: illness identity construction in athletes (mis)diagnosed with a personality disorder	6
‘We are all in this together’: a creative non-fiction story of older adults participating in power-assisted exercise	6
“Sick but active, tired but healthy”. Narratives of body and self living with HIV	6
“Standing out like a sore thumb”: exploring socio-cultural influences on adherence to cardiac rehabilitation	6
‘Research is like English as a second dialect’: community members’ perspectives of promising practices for physical activity-focused community-based participatory research	6
Embodied experiences of injured endurance runners: a qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project	6
‘Busy as a bee’: a qualitative dual analysis of life fulfillment among Norwegian competitive recreational athlete mothers in endurance sports	6
One of these is not like the other: The retrospective experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence	5
Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations	5
Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach	5
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	5
Harnessing the power of sport for disaster recovery	5
Combining crystallisation and creative non-fiction to develop new insights on the politically astute use of humour in sports coaching	5
Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences	5
‘[Trails] and tribulations’: exploring wash-out in cycling coach education	4
Safeguarding in sports settings: unpacking a conflicting identity	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
What is an athlete's psychological well-being? Constructing concepts with Olympic and Paralympic athletes	4
Runners’ experiences of street harassment in London	4
Lost and found: parkrun, work and identity	4
The event-focused interview: what is it, why is it useful, and how is it used?	4
‘The man in the middle’: mixed martial arts referees and the production and management of socially desirable risk	4
An exploration of reciprocity between female athletes and their coach in elite junior swimming: a shared reality theory perspective	4
A letter to my younger self: using a novel written data collection method to understand the experiences of athletes in Chronic Pain	4
Creating space for meaningful physical activity at home: women’s stories of social interaction, micro-adventure, and the joy of feeling strong	4
Unlocking a sporting club’s potential: a whole club approach to youth mental health promotion from the perspectives of club stakeholders	4
Choose your own story: creative non-fiction about athletes attempting to qualify for the Olympics	3
A move to rethink life skills as assemblages: a call to postqualitative inquiry	3
Infusing ‘post’ thinking in qualitative training using material-performative pedagogies	3
Fear as a barrier to physical activity in young adults with obesity: a qualitative study	3
Making moves: involved fathers experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program	3
The meaning and value of poetic thinking in qualitative sport research	3
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	3
A critical discourse analysis of the dominant discourses being used to portray parasport coaches in the newspaper media	3

Correction	3
Conducting collaborative research across global North-South contexts: benefits, challenges and implications of working with visual and digital participatory research approaches	3
Exploring parents’, coaches’, and children’s experiences and perceived outcomes in preschooler sport	3
‘Strong and courageous’ but ‘constantly insecure’: dialogical self theory, intersecting identities, and Christian mixed martial arts	3
Correction	3
“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	3
Concussion in professional wrestling: agency, structure and cultural change	3
A critical discourse analysis of racial narratives from White athletes attending a historically Black college/University	3