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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Postleisure: Disrupting the Disciplinary Fixity of Leisure Thinking	92
The cognitive and conative image in insular marine protected areas: A study from Galapagos, Ecuador	86
Thinking big: The role of mega trails in creating meaning and sense of place to conserve large landscapes	79
The influences of paragliding flow experience on storytelling intention through satisfaction: A comparison of adventure-seekers and learning-seekers	64
Leveraging human mobility data to assess recreational activity across the United States’ most visited National Forest	61
Inclusive pathways to understand differential forest recreation participation among ethnoracial minorities in the United States	59
Mapping the excess demand for recreation in Northern Ireland to inform land use policy	49
Understanding exposure to avalanche terrain and avalanche information product use of snowshoers and winter hikers: Insights from Mount Seymour Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada	49
Leisure constraint and mental health: The case of park users in Ningbo, China	48
Exploring the potential of forest rental services as a tool for balancing recreation and forestry	47
Been there, done that? Effects of centrality-to-lifestyle and experience use history on angling tourists’ loyalty to a Swedish salmon fishery	43
The impact of recreational activities on species at risk in Canada	42
Ecological Footprint and tourism: Development and sustainability monitoring of ecotourism packages in Mediterranean Protected Areas	40
Senior outdoor tourists’ injuries, illnesses & infirmities: Reveal or conceal?	37
Strategic interventions for enhancing destination competitiveness in island-based adventure tourism: Insights from a small island destination	36
Editorial Board	35
Understanding memorable tourism experiences and behavioural intentions at geothermal destinations: A PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach	32
Hiking-related degradation of alpine landscape in Low Tatras national park (Slovakia) during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Editorial: Introduction to sustainably managing outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism as social-ecological complex adaptive systems	31
The importance of pro-environmental behavior in advancing sustainable tourism	30
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the popularity of protected areas for mountain biking and hiking in Australia: Insights from volunteered geographic information	30
Older adults’ preferences for natural environment and rural life: Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental motivation	30
Urban space use for outing before and during the pandemic: A case study of Daejeon, South Korea using social media posts	29
Cases and context: Mask-related behaviors among U.S. trail visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Stand-up paddling: A case study on the effect and impact pathway of information and appeals to reduce ecological conflicts	27

Research note: Spatial variations of condition class in Clifty Wilderness, Daniel Boone National Forest, KY, USA	26
Factors promoting nature-based outdoor recreation during the daytime and evening	25
Crawling with a vehicle: Rock-crawlers’ recreation specialization, motivation, and sources of challenges	24
Does language make a difference? Exploring the hiking experience of a nation-specific online community	23
Conceptualising the power of outdoor adventure activities for subjective well-being: A systematic literature review	22
Using social media user profiles to identify visitor demographics and origins in Yellowstone national park	22
Novice tourists’ play experience in commercial outdoor adventure tourism: The perspective of reversal theory	22
Sociodemographics and impacts of wreck divers in Tulamben, Indonesia	22
Who walks the Park? Revealing changes in trail use patterns through two decades of trekking registers in Patagonia	21
Climate change adaptation in the ski industry: Stakeholders' perceptions regarding a mountain resort in Southeastern Europe	21
Camping in clearcuts: The impacts of timber harvesting on USFS campground utilization	20
Editorial Board	20
Estimating park visitation in Canadian national parks using volunteered geographic information (VGI)	19
Exploring urban waterscape perceptions: relating landscape visual character and landscape image through a multi-perspective approach	19
Strava Metro mobility data provides accurate estimates of recreation use in Urban-Proximate Protected Areas	19
Adaptation to climate change in nature-based tourist destination in northern Ghana	18
Eudaimonic well-being development: Motives driving mountain-based adventure tourism	18
From knowledge to responsible actions: The roles of willingness to sacrifice and personal involvement in carry-out trash behavior	18
“To use or not to use” - Mobile technology in nature-based tourism experience	18
Tourism flow and the consumption of aesthetic landscape values in high-elevation mountain areas in the Alps: A cartographic and spatio-market methodology	18
Exploring the gendered landscape of the avalanche safety industry – barriers, benefits and potential drawbacks of professional diversity	18
Squeezing the most from volunteered geographic information to monitor mountain biking in peri-urban protected and recreational areas at a metropolitan scale	17
The residents' participation in tourism based social entrepreneurship organization: Evidence from residents’ perception on ecosphere social enterprise	17
Outdoor recreation shows promise as an equitable context for youth informal STEM learning in amenity-rich rural areas	17
The recreational value of botanic garden events: A case study of the Zagara plant fair in Palermo, Italy	16
Examining the influence of activity attachment on responsible angling behavior: Insights from anglers at a friendly fishing demonstration site	16
Pleasure and restriction: The relationships between community tourism experience value and visitor management	16
Discourse about national parks on social media: Insights from Twitter	16
From soft to hard adventure: Examining experienced mountaineers’ mountaineering intentions through the lens of the theory of planned behavior	16
Climate Resource View (CRV): A case of thermal safety at United States national parks	16
Recreation and disarray: Analysis of disorder in U.S. national parks	16
A step towards a greener green? Investigating golfers’ relationships with nature and attitudes about biodiversity conservation in golf courses	16
Editorial Board	16
Intra-spatial displacement at high-use recreation destinations: Employing spatial analyses to explore visitor behavior	16
Peaks and passion: Examining the dynamics of workplace commitments among outdoor sport guides	16
Dysfunctional tourism behaviors in national parks: An exploration of causes, typologies, and consequences in the case of Saharan tourism	16
Nature always recovers! A degrowth analysis of event participants’ perspective on environmental impacts	15
Influence of digital technologies on hikers' spatial behaviour and perception	15
Editorial Board	15
Understanding outdoor fitness equipment in South Australia: Insights from council employees and an environmental audit	15
Deep nature glamping in Germany – Potentials and configuration of a nature tourism offer	15
Landscape management and planning as a spatial organization method connecting CES supply-demand assessment and sustainable tourism development	15
Optimizing spatial distribution of parks based on the preference for park types: A case study with an improved two-step floating catchment area method	15
Natural attributes or aesthetic attributes: Which is more valuable in recreational ecosystem services of nature-based parks considering tourists’ environmental knowledge and attitude impacts?	15
The effect of event quality on participants’ intention to revisit a sport event: Monetary valuation and mitigation of hypothetical bias	15
Bird photos as trophies: Status signalling, reinforcement, and competition	14
Trail sustainability broadly defined	14
The underdog effect: Towards a conceptual framework for enhancing voluntourism	14
Resilience-based preferences for technology-enhanced hiking services in Mount Semeru, Indonesia	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
Perceived constraints to participating in wildlife-related recreation	14
The impact of COVID-19 on the Australian outdoor recreation industry from the perspective of practitioners	14
Understanding visitors' personality perceptions of winter destinations: Evidences from Chinese travelers	14
Changes in travel behaviors and intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery period: A case study of China	14
The art of making fire-with	14
Beyond the buzzwords: Rethinking sustainability in adventure tourism through real travellers practices	14
Editorial Board	13
Understanding spatial inequities in urban neighborhood park services: A mixed method study in Taiwan	13
Research note: The impact of advanced information communication technologies on visitor acceptance of forest management in response to emerald ash borer	13
Economic impacts of trail destinations: The case of the Peaks of the Balkans trail	13
Environmental and social impacts of shifting park-use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from state and local park managers	13
Successful camping operators: Performance measurement using cluster analysis and DEA methods.	13
Sustainable recreation and tourism: Making sense of diverse conceptualizations and management paradigms	13
Matching destination difficulty and participant capability in outdoor recreation and tourism: role of third-party certifications for 15 activities in 52 countries	13
Beneath the lens: Exploring the impacts of underwater photographers in marine-based tourism	13
Invasive plant hitchhikers: Appalachian Trail thru-hiker knowledge and attitudes of invasive plants and leave No trace practices	13
Psychological well-being among European tourists on the Spanish Mediterranean coast: Results from the BlueTORRE study	13
Foreign tourists' preferences for destination attributes in Japan's national parks: A best-worst scaling analysis	12
Not seeing the wood for the (invasive) trees: Visitors’ perceptions of invasive wilding conifers in the New Zealand landscape	12
In what context do scholars differentiate recreation and tourism in park studies?	12
Biking-hiking conflicts and their mitigation in urban recreation areas: Results of a quasi-experimental long-term evaluation in the Zurich forest	12
The impact of graphic design on attention capture and behavior among outdoor recreationists: Results from an exploratory persuasive signage experiment	12
A comparative analysis of the value of recreation in six contrasting Nordic landscapes using the travel cost method	12
Research note: Ski touring on groomed slopes and the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential trigger for motivational changes	12
Editorial Board	12
The value of social distancing: A discrete choice experiment to examine golf tourists’ preferences for COVID-19 Safety protocols	12
How ocean beach recreational quality fits with safety issues? An analysis of risky behaviours in France	11
From reviews to returns in glamping: Mining eWOM to evaluate quality and predict tourists’ revisit intentions	11
Tailoring tourism strategies: Exploring the role of demographics in shaping domestic tourists' perceptions: The case of domestic tourists in Da Nang City, Vietnam	11
Understanding encounters between recreationists and livestock guardian dogs as a basis for conflict management	11
Soundscapes experience at spiritual tourism area of Goa Maria Sendangsono, Yogyakarta, Indonesia	11
Understanding vehicle noise as an indicator of soundscape quality in Denali National Park and Preserve	11
A nationwide assessment of awareness about US national parks	11
Editorial Board	10
The spatial network structure of the U.S. outdoor recreation economy and its influencing factors	10
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SCUBA diving experience in marine protected areas	10
COVID-19 compliance among urban trail users: Behavioral insights and environmental implications	10
The role of brand associations on the development of place attachment into outdoor adventure tourism destinations	10
Monitoring visitor activity and informal trail disturbance in Yosemite Valley meadows to assess temporal changes in use and impacts	10
The influence of trekkers’ personal and subjective norms on their pro-environmental behaviors	10
Winter backcountry travel and avalanche airbags: Assessing risk-taking in a field study	10
Understanding regional economic impacts of recreation spending at a public lake: A case study in rural Oklahoma, USA	10
Wildlife-based tour operators complying with the principles of responsible tourism: Influence of moral and legal persuasions	10
Assessing the camping competitiveness using a clustering approach	10
Contemporary issues, opportunities, and resources for the U.S. outdoor recreation profession	10
Assessing the effectiveness of signs to change littering behavior in a Norwegian national park	10