OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Manage 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
Editorial Board	64
Research note: An evaluation of potential locations for the Bears Ears National Monument cultural center	59
Exploring the avalanche bulletin as an avenue for continuing education by including learning interventions	56
Self-assessment of riding skills and perception of trail difficulty in mountain biking - An investigation within the German-speaking mountain biking community	51
Ecotourism and COVID-19: Impact on the efficiency of the Spanish hospitality industry	42
What climbing means…	42
Weather conditions and ski resorts’ vitality: Linear and non-linear effects	41
Been there, done that? Effects of centrality-to-lifestyle and experience use history on angling tourists’ loyalty to a Swedish salmon fishery	40
Clustering marine wildlife voluntourism to evaluate its potential for southern Africa and beyond	39
Leisure constraint and mental health: The case of park users in Ningbo, China	39
Editorial Board	38
Examining the relationship between leisure constraints and quality of life: A case of hikers in Ningbo, China	37
Impacts of participation in scientific activities on marine tourists’ engagement and individual learning outcomes	31
Hiker's leisure involvement and mental health: Moderating role of self-efficacy and social support	30
Mountain bike trails in urban forests: Meeting recreation demands in Vienna and Zurich	27
A method for overtourism optimisation for protected areas	27
Geocaching and tourist activity in Slovenia: An exploration of travel patterns	27
Successful camping operators: Performance measurement using cluster analysis and DEA methods.	26
Heterogeneity in trips to green natural spaces: A travel cost approach across UK sites	25
Building a narcissism-based framework of picnics: An eastern culture perspective	25
Book Review	25
Thinking big: The role of mega trails in creating meaning and sense of place to conserve large landscapes	24
Perceptions of social and ecological change at the Bonneville Salt Flats	24
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act at 50: Managers’ views of actions, barriers and partnerships	24
Re-thinking the nature of decision making in outdoor extreme situations: Lessons from Britain's National Three Peaks Challenge	23

Use of social media data, online reviews and wikipedia page views to measure visitation patterns of outdoor attractions	23
Mapping the excess demand for recreation in Northern Ireland to inform land use policy	23
Research note: The impact of advanced information communication technologies on visitor acceptance of forest management in response to emerald ash borer	23
The impact of recreational activities on species at risk in Canada	22
Eye-catching or breath-catching: Role and landscape attributes of pauses differs among hikers’ profile when rambling in a French mountainous area	22
How tourism research integrates environmental issues? A keyword network analysis	20
Sustainable recreation and tourism: Making sense of diverse conceptualizations and management paradigms	20
Research note: Ski touring on groomed slopes and the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential trigger for motivational changes	19
Protected area management effectiveness and COVID-19: The case of Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia	18
Enhancing recreational activities through planting design in neighborhood parks	18
Ecological Footprint and tourism: Development and sustainability monitoring of ecotourism packages in Mediterranean Protected Areas	18
The nature of the pandemic: Exploring the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic upon recreation visitor behaviors and experiences in parks and protected areas	18
Managing conflict by mapping stakeholders’ views on ecotourism development using statement and place Q methodology	18
Trail morphology and impacts to soil induced by a small mountain bike race series	17
Biking-hiking conflicts and their mitigation in urban recreation areas: Results of a quasi-experimental long-term evaluation in the Zurich forest	17
Bridging information gaps: A rapid assessment of cetacean watching tourism in Sri Lanka	16
Measuring belongingness in outdoor orientation programs	16
Defining contemporary outdoor physical activity: A critical interpretive synthesis	16
Beneath the lens: Exploring the impacts of underwater photographers in marine-based tourism	16
How important is air quality in travel decision-making?	16
Measuring the human-dimension of outdoor recreation and its impacts on terrestrial wildlife	16
Thru-hikers’ attitudes about potential management actions for interactions with grizzly bears along the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail	15
When you walk the trail, you start to fantasize about food, right? Teleologies and understandings of hikers’ meal practices while hiking in Arctic Sweden	15
“If we really disturbed them, they would leave”: Mountain sports participants and wildlife disturbance in the northern French Alps	15
Outdoor recreationists’ engagement with weather: The weather-outdoor recreation process model	15
Designing for human-nature connectedness: A case study of the Barefoot Path Spalt, Germany	14
What's the crux? Falcon nesting closures and rock climbing constraints at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park	14
Assessment of forest visitors’ route preferences – Impact encounters across a range of forest environments	14
Place meanings and national parks: A rhetorical analysis of social media texts	14
Exploring the relationship between sport demand's key players and environmental sustainability: Pointers from a systematic review	13
The impact of graphic design on attention capture and behavior among outdoor recreationists: Results from an exploratory persuasive signage experiment	13
Environmental and social impacts of shifting park-use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from state and local park managers	13
Understanding spatial inequities in urban neighborhood park services: A mixed method study in Taiwan	13
Exploring a structured framework for camping sleep experience	13
Find the one you like! Profiling Swiss parks with user generated content	12
The cognitive and conative image in insular marine protected areas: A study from Galapagos, Ecuador	12
Climate change and winter outdoor activities in Austria	12
Employees’ experiences of outdoor adventure training on psychological capital and wellbeing: A mixed methods case study	12
Participatory development and management of eco-cultural trails in sustainable tourism destinations	12
Socio-ecological and economic evaluation of urban parks - A methodology integrating and articulating diverse components	12
Destination image of Chitwan National Park, Nepal: Insights from a content analysis of online photographs	12
Invasive plant hitchhikers: Appalachian Trail thru-hiker knowledge and attitudes of invasive plants and leave No trace practices	12
The effectiveness of information signs in deterring visitor vandalism	12
Terrain park participants’ perceptions of contributing factors in injury events and risk management suggestions	11
The practice of (un)sustainable tourism in a National Park: An empirical study focusing on structural elements	11
Tourism and climate change – A discussion of suitable strategies for Austria	11
The nexus between visitor satisfaction and expenditure behaviour in national parks: The case of Dragon Palace National Park, Guizhou, China	11
The value of social distancing: A discrete choice experiment to examine golf tourists’ preferences for COVID-19 Safety protocols	11
A comparative analysis of the value of recreation in six contrasting Nordic landscapes using the travel cost method	11
Tourists' assessment of economic value, benefits and negative impacts of pedestrian walkways: Case-studies of the Paiva River (Arouca) and the Mondego River (Guarda) in Portugal	10

In what context do scholars differentiate recreation and tourism in park studies?	10
Economic impact analysis of nature tourism in protected areas: Towards an adaptation to international standards in German protected areas	10
Editorial: Introduction to sustainably managing outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism as social-ecological complex adaptive systems	10
Modelling the overall image of coastal tourism destinations through personal values of tourists: A robust regression approach	10
Not seeing the wood for the (invasive) trees: Visitors’ perceptions of invasive wilding conifers in the New Zealand landscape	10
Tourism and climate change – An integrated look at the Austrian case	10
Elevating the park experience: Exploring asymmetric relationships in visitor satisfaction at Canadian national parks	9
Editorial Board	9
When the mountains call: Exploring mountaineering motivations through the lens of the calling theory	9
Domestic tourists’ experience in protected natural parks: A new trend in pandemic crisis?	9
Editorial Board	9
COVID-19 compliance among urban trail users: Behavioral insights and environmental implications	9
Older adults’ preferences for natural environment and rural life: Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental motivation	9
Editorial Board	9
Thinking like a system in the turbulent world of outdoor recreation management	8
Acceptability and appeal: How visitors’ perceptions of sounds can contribute to shared learning and transdisciplinary protected area governance	8
Challenges, experiences, and coping behaviors among SMEs in the adventure tourism industry after the COVID-19 pandemic: A case from Pokhara, Nepal	8
A method to analyze variability and seasonality the visitors in mountain national park in period 2017–2020 (Stołowe Mts. National Park; Poland)	8
How ocean beach recreational quality fits with safety issues? An analysis of risky behaviours in France	8
DANGER! NO HIKING! Risky hiking decisions, framing of normative warning messages, and self-exempting beliefs	8
Estimating encounter probabilities among recreational trail user groups	8
Exploring the attitudes and experiences of those living near a multipurpose recreation trail in the southern United States	8
Countrywide screening of spatiotemporal overlap between coastal and marine recreation and waterbirds in Denmark	8
Confidence, community & conservation: Exploring the relationship between self-efficacy and experience in female hunters	8
Integrating recreation into National Forest Inventories – Results from a forest visitor survey in winter and summer	8
Editorial Board	8
Linking visitor perceptions and behaviours related to ticks and lyme disease to risk management strategies in a protected areas context	8