OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences	73
Developing the craft: reflexive accounts of doing reflexive thematic analysis	69
Reflections from the ‘Strava-sphere’: Kudos, community, and (self-)surveillance on a social network for athletes	21
‘Can you move your fat ass off the baseline?’ Exploring the sport experiences of adolescent girls with body image concerns	21
More than meets the eye: a relational analysis of young women’s body capital and embodied understandings of health and fitness on Instagram	20
Parental involvement and children’s enjoyment in sport	19
‘I’m just lost in the world’: the impact of blue exercise on participant well-being	19
‘Stop mocking, start respecting’: an activist approach meets African Australian refugee-background young women in grassroots football	19
‘Like, what even is a podcast?’ Approaching sport-for-development youth participatory action research through digital methodologies	17
Poor mental health outcomes in crisis transitions: an examination of retired athletes accounting of crisis transition experiences in a cultural context	17
Exploring the impact of physical activity-related weight stigma among women with self-identified obesity	17
Safeguarding in sports settings: unpacking a conflicting identity	16
Using social network theory to explore a participatory action research collaboration through social media	16
Feminist collaborative becomings: an entangled process of knowing through fitness objects	15
A tale of three seasons: a cultural sport psychology and gender performativity approach to practitioner identity and development in professional football	15
‘It has to hurt’: A phenomenological analysis of elite runners´ experiences in handling non-injuring running-related pain	15
Exploring sports coaches’ experiences of using a contemporary pedagogical approach to coaching: an international perspective	14
Sustainable elite sport: Swedish athletes’ voices of sustainability in athletics	14
‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral “stickiness“ of binary gender	13
Blurring boundaries between humans and technology: postdigital, postphenomenology and actor-network theory in qualitative research	13
#Skinny girls: young girls’ learning processes and health-related social media	12
‘The agenda is to have fun’: exploring experiences of guided running in visually impaired and guide runners	12
Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward	12
Women-only swimming as a space of belonging	11
A move to rethink life skills as assemblages: a call to postqualitative inquiry	11

Bridging the Know-Do Gap Using Integrated Knowledge Translation and Qualitative Inquiry: A Narrative Review	10
Contemporary digital qualitative research in sport, exercise and health: introduction	10
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Community Exercise Experiences after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury	10
Narratives of trauma and resilience from Street Soccer players	10
Youth sport 2.0? The development of eSports in Norway from 2016 to 2019	10
Runners’ experiences of street harassment in London	9
Easy as riding a bike? Bicycling competence as (re)learning to negotiate space	9
#gainingweightiscool: the use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders	9
The event-focused interview: what is it, why is it useful, and how is it used?	9
Is #YogaForEveryone? The idealised flexible bodymind in Instagram yoga posts	9
Teachers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the school environment for physical activity in schoolchildren: a qualitative study	9
Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running	9
Bringing Sports Coaches’ Experiences of Primary Appraisals and Psychological Well-being to Life using Composite Vignettes	8
A critical discourse analysis of the dominant discourses being used to portray parasport coaches in the newspaper media	8
‘That’s how I am dealing with it – thatisdealing with it’: exploring men athletes’ self-compassion through the lens of masculinity	8
“Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools	8
‘I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: a phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’	8
Supporting ‘blue care’ through outdoor water-based activities: practitioner perspectives	8
Meaning and experiences of physical activity in rural and northern communities	8
The youth football journey: parents’ experiences and recommendations for support	8
The café talk: a discussion of the process of developing a creative non-fiction	8
Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations	8