OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Manage is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Thinking big: The role of mega trails in creating meaning and sense of place to conserve large landscapes	76
The cognitive and conative image in insular marine protected areas: A study from Galapagos, Ecuador	73
The influences of paragliding flow experience on storytelling intention through satisfaction: A comparison of adventure-seekers and learning-seekers	70
Postleisure: Disrupting the Disciplinary Fixity of Leisure Thinking	63
Mapping the excess demand for recreation in Northern Ireland to inform land use policy	60
The impact of recreational activities on species at risk in Canada	59
Leisure constraint and mental health: The case of park users in Ningbo, China	55
Been there, done that? Effects of centrality-to-lifestyle and experience use history on angling tourists’ loyalty to a Swedish salmon fishery	50
Ecological Footprint and tourism: Development and sustainability monitoring of ecotourism packages in Mediterranean Protected Areas	45
Senior outdoor tourists’ injuries, illnesses & infirmities: Reveal or conceal?	44
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the popularity of protected areas for mountain biking and hiking in Australia: Insights from volunteered geographic information	43
Older adults’ preferences for natural environment and rural life: Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental motivation	40
Editorial: Introduction to sustainably managing outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism as social-ecological complex adaptive systems	39
Perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices associated with open water swimming	39
Editorial Board	38
Does language make a difference? Exploring the hiking experience of a nation-specific online community	37
Crawling with a vehicle: Rock-crawlers’ recreation specialization, motivation, and sources of challenges	36
Cases and context: Mask-related behaviors among U.S. trail visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Stand-up paddling: A case study on the effect and impact pathway of information and appeals to reduce ecological conflicts	34
Urban space use for outing before and during the pandemic: A case study of Daejeon, South Korea using social media posts	32
Research note: Spatial variations of condition class in Clifty Wilderness, Daniel Boone National Forest, KY, USA	31
Novice tourists’ play experience in commercial outdoor adventure tourism: The perspective of reversal theory	29
Conceptualising the power of outdoor adventure activities for subjective well-being: A systematic literature review	27
Climate change adaptation in the ski industry: Stakeholders' perceptions regarding a mountain resort in Southeastern Europe	26
Using social media user profiles to identify visitor demographics and origins in Yellowstone national park	26

Factors promoting nature-based outdoor recreation during the daytime and evening	25
Intra-spatial displacement at high-use recreation destinations: Employing spatial analyses to explore visitor behavior	24
Exploring the gendered landscape of the avalanche safety industry – barriers, benefits and potential drawbacks of professional diversity	24
Estimating park visitation in Canadian national parks using volunteered geographic information (VGI)	24
Editorial Board	24
Tourism flow and the consumption of aesthetic landscape values in high-elevation mountain areas in the Alps: A cartographic and spatio-market methodology	24
Adaptation to climate change in nature-based tourist destination in northern Ghana	24
Outdoor recreation shows promise as an equitable context for youth informal STEM learning in amenity-rich rural areas	23
“To use or not to use” - Mobile technology in nature-based tourism experience	22
Camping in clearcuts: The impacts of timber harvesting on USFS campground utilization	21
Managing sustainable development in recreational and protected areas. The Dovre case, Norway	21
The residents' participation in tourism based social entrepreneurship organization: Evidence from residents’ perception on ecosphere social enterprise	20
Squeezing the most from volunteered geographic information to monitor mountain biking in peri-urban protected and recreational areas at a metropolitan scale	19
Eudaimonic well-being development: Motives driving mountain-based adventure tourism	19
The recreational value of botanic garden events: A case study of the Zagara plant fair in Palermo, Italy	19
From soft to hard adventure: Examining experienced mountaineers’ mountaineering intentions through the lens of the theory of planned behavior	19
The effect of event quality on participants’ intention to revisit a sport event: Monetary valuation and mitigation of hypothetical bias	18
Nature always recovers! A degrowth analysis of event participants’ perspective on environmental impacts	18
Natural attributes or aesthetic attributes: Which is more valuable in recreational ecosystem services of nature-based parks considering tourists’ environmental knowledge and attitude impacts?	18
Climate Resource View (CRV): A case of thermal safety at United States national parks	18
Pleasure and restriction: The relationships between community tourism experience value and visitor management	18
Landscape management and planning as a spatial organization method connecting CES supply-demand assessment and sustainable tourism development	18
Deep nature glamping in Germany – Potentials and configuration of a nature tourism offer	18
A step towards a greener green? Investigating golfers’ relationships with nature and attitudes about biodiversity conservation in golf courses	18
Recreation and disarray: Analysis of disorder in U.S. national parks	17
Influence of digital technologies on hikers' spatial behaviour and perception	16
Beyond the buzzwords: Rethinking sustainability in adventure tourism through real travellers practices	15
Editorial Board	15
Dysfunctional tourism behaviors in national parks: An exploration of causes, typologies, and consequences in the case of Saharan tourism	15
Discourse about national parks on social media: Insights from Twitter	15
The art of making fire-with	14
Trail sustainability broadly defined	14
The impact of COVID-19 on the Australian outdoor recreation industry from the perspective of practitioners	14
Gateway community stakeholders’ perceived impacts of protected area management actions: The case of North Carolina (U.S.) state parks	14
Understanding visitor compliance with cross-country ski trail passes under open access	14
Changes in travel behaviors and intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery period: A case study of China	14
Bird photos as trophies: Status signalling, reinforcement, and competition	13
Editorial Board	13
Invasive plant hitchhikers: Appalachian Trail thru-hiker knowledge and attitudes of invasive plants and leave No trace practices	13
The underdog effect: Towards a conceptual framework for enhancing voluntourism	13
Perceived constraints to participating in wildlife-related recreation	13
Beneath the lens: Exploring the impacts of underwater photographers in marine-based tourism	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
Managing conflict by mapping stakeholders’ views on ecotourism development using statement and place Q methodology	12
The impact of graphic design on attention capture and behavior among outdoor recreationists: Results from an exploratory persuasive signage experiment	12
Exploring the avalanche bulletin as an avenue for continuing education by including learning interventions	12
The value of social distancing: A discrete choice experiment to examine golf tourists’ preferences for COVID-19 Safety protocols	12
Biking-hiking conflicts and their mitigation in urban recreation areas: Results of a quasi-experimental long-term evaluation in the Zurich forest	12
Research note: The impact of advanced information communication technologies on visitor acceptance of forest management in response to emerald ash borer	12

Successful camping operators: Performance measurement using cluster analysis and DEA methods.	12
Tailoring tourism strategies: Exploring the role of demographics in shaping domestic tourists' perceptions: The case of domestic tourists in Da Nang City, Vietnam	12
Research note: Ski touring on groomed slopes and the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential trigger for motivational changes	12
Sustainable recreation and tourism: Making sense of diverse conceptualizations and management paradigms	12
Not seeing the wood for the (invasive) trees: Visitors’ perceptions of invasive wilding conifers in the New Zealand landscape	12
COVID-19 compliance among urban trail users: Behavioral insights and environmental implications	12
The role of brand associations on the development of place attachment into outdoor adventure tourism destinations	11
In what context do scholars differentiate recreation and tourism in park studies?	11
Editorial Board	11
Four dimensions of sustainable governance for National Scenic Trails	11
Introducing sense of place narratives in image projection for marine destinations	11
Editorial Board	11
How ocean beach recreational quality fits with safety issues? An analysis of risky behaviours in France	11
Assessing the effectiveness of signs to change littering behavior in a Norwegian national park	11
Understanding coastal zone innovation: The ‘Waterdunen’ project as an ecology of practices	11
Understanding regional economic impacts of recreation spending at a public lake: A case study in rural Oklahoma, USA	11
A comparative analysis of the value of recreation in six contrasting Nordic landscapes using the travel cost method	11
Wildlife-based tour operators complying with the principles of responsible tourism: Influence of moral and legal persuasions	11
Experiential value and environmentally responsible behavioral intention in rock-climbing tourism: The role of place attachment and biospheric value	11
Editorial Board	11
The influence of trekkers’ personal and subjective norms on their pro-environmental behaviors	10
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SCUBA diving experience in marine protected areas	10
Editorial Board	10
How to develop a road cycling tourism destination. Girona as a case study	10
Monitoring visitor activity and informal trail disturbance in Yosemite Valley meadows to assess temporal changes in use and impacts	10
Assessing the camping competitiveness using a clustering approach	10
Role of therapeutic landscapes and emotional experiences in the relationship between water-based recreational experiences, well-being, and environmental behaviors	10
Living in an untouchable world: Barriers to recreation and tourism for Portuguese blind people during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The spatial network structure of the U.S. outdoor recreation economy and its influencing factors	10
Contemporary issues, opportunities, and resources for the U.S. outdoor recreation profession	10
Tourists’ perceptions of proximity tourism: Insights from sentiment analysis and fsQCA	10
The role of health and wellbeing in shaping local park experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	10