OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sport and exercise in times of self-quarantine: How Germans changed their behaviour at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic	130
Homo- and transnegativity in sport in Europe: Experiences of LGBT+ individuals in various sport settings	25
Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines	18
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia	18
Chinese martial arts and the Olympics: Analysing the policy of the International Wushu Federation	17
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	17
‘Who unlocked the kitchen?’: Online misogyny, YouTube comments and women's professional street skateboarding	16
Gay male athletes’ coming-out stories on Outsports.com	15
Extreme weight control behaviors among adolescent athletes: Links with weight-related maltreatment from parents and coaches and sport ethic norms	14
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics	13
Walking the line? An investigation into elite athletes’ sport-related use of painkillers and their willingness to use analgesics to train or compete when injured	12
‘These are “our” sports’: Kabaddi and Kho-Kho women athletes from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan	11
Social capital networks in sports spectatorship and participation	10
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	10
‘Everything is said with a smile’: Homonegative speech acts in sport	10
Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter	10
Title IX at 50: Legitimating state domination of women’s sport	9
The toxic doxa of “clean sport” and IOC’s and WADA’s quest for credibility	9
(Per)forming identity in the mind-sport bridge: Self, partnership and community	9
Understanding match-fixing from the perspective of social capital: A case study of Taiwan’s professional baseball system	9
A new era? How the European ESPN covered the 2019 Women’s World Cup online	9
Patriotism, competition, nationalism, and respect for the military in US sports: Public recognition of American institutionalized sports nationalism	9
The intersubjective accomplishment of power by medical professionals within unregulated combat sports	9
(Not) being granted the right to belong—Amateur football clubs in Germany	8
Tokyo 2020 Olympics sustainability: An elusive concept or reality?	8

Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study	8
Linking sports-related and socio-economic resources of retiring Olympic athletes to their subsequent vocational career	8
Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect	8
Footballers’ citizenship during COVID-19: A case study of Premier League players’ community support	8
The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance: Views of representation and their implications for board composition	8
‘We are the vocal minority’: The Safe Standing movement and breaking down the state in English football	8
‘He may not be qualified in it, but I think he’s still got the knowledge’: Team-doctoring in combat sports	8
Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports	7
Contingent nationalism: The genesis of ultras’ nationalist discourse	7
Sport, gender, and national interest during the Olympics: A comparative analysis of media representations in Central and Eastern Europe	7
Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis	7
The toponymy of sporting venues: A multinomial logistic regression analysis of football stadium names	7
Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™	7
Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers	7
The grey zone between tactics and manipulation: The normalization of match-fixing in road cycling	7
Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running	7
Globalization and player recruitment: How teams from European top leagues broker migration flows of footballers in the global transfer network	6
Athletic naturalisation, nationality and nationalism – Naturalised players in Hong Kong’s representative (national) football team	6
U.S. Women's Sport Consumption and Self-Identified Fandom: An Exploration of Social Structural and Sociocultural Antecedents	6
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England	6
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football	6
Paddling with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Exploring the moving body in sport	6
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods	5
Who leads The Last Dance?	5
Defining ‘woman': A governmentality analysis of how protective policies are created in elite women's sport	5
What’s in a name? Between “Chinese Taipei” and “Taiwan”: The contested terrain of sport nationalism in Taiwan	5
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?	5
Examining the fabrics of match-fixing: The underground sport betting system	5
‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals	5
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation	5
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity	5
Chinese women skateboarders in Hong Kong: A skatefeminism approach	5
From non-runner to parkrunner: Subjective athletic identity and experience of parkrun	5
Odds-wise view: Whose ideas prevail in the global integrity campaigns against match-fixing?	5
Waiting or Acting? The Gender Gap in International Football Success	5
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital	5
Challenges to the role of media in reporting sport corruption: Insights from reporters in Balkan countries	5
Swimming as self-care – A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women	4
‘Boys, when they do dance, they have to do football as well, for balance’: Young men’s construction of a sporting masculinity	4
Sport omnivorism: Social stratification of sports practice in Chile	4
“Do you find it normal to be so fat?” Weight stigma in obese gym users	4
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals	4
Granting the privilege to grunt: Reconceptualizing the perception of grunting in gyms	4
Stabbed, shot, left to die: Christy Martin and gender-based violence in boxing	4
Athlete activism and the role of personal and professional positionality: The case of Naomi Osaka	4
If things go South: The renewed policy of sport mega events allocation and its implications for future research	4
Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes’ consent practices within combat sports	4
‘All Avatars Aren't We’: Football and the experience of football-themed digital content during a global pandemic	4
When ‘the show’ cannot go on: An investigation into sports mega-events and responses during the pandemic crisis	4
Cosmopolitans and communitarians: A typology of football fans between national and European influences	4

When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	4
Corruption in sports: Lessons from Montenegro	3
Fear of judgement and women's physical (in)activity experiences	3
Beating the buzzer: The construction of ageing hockey masculinity	3
‘Do know harm’: Examining the intersecting capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through community sport and leisure programmes	3
The dancefloor is now open: A dispositional analysis of the glocalization and sportification of Chinese DanceSport	3
Why Russians love the Olympic Games: How individual values and nationalism motivate attitudes towards the Olympics	3
Sexual minority prevalence and attitudes within the British horseracing industry	3
Aesthetic/affective norms of femininity: An obstacle to women’s performance of exercise	3
Brazilian School Games: A globalized model for school sports policy	3
Racist Stacking in Professional Soccer in Germany	3
Sport for Indigenous resurgence: Toward a critical settler-colonial reflection	3
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance	3
“Helmets aren’t cool”: Surfers’ perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear	3
Sport and British Jewish identity	3
‘We’re all in this together’: Perspectives from within the Gulf Cooperation Council Women’s Games	3
Antisemitism as a football specific problem? The situation of Jewish clubs in German amateur sport	3
African footballers’ wives: “Those paid dollars and pounds, their head is not five!”	3
How gender affects the newsworthiness of sports news on German TV: An application of the news-factors approach to understanding gender-biased sports news presentation	3
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	3
Sport, physical activity and social health in older adults. Caring with technology in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Sensing inclusion among visually impaired and guide runners	3
Television commentary on women's and men's Australian Rules football: A thematic analysis	3
When the gift is halfhearted: A socio-cultural study of ambivalence in a charity sport event	3
The attitudes of collegiate coaches toward gay and lesbian athletes in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China	3
‘It’s not like she’s from another planet’: Undoing gender/redoing policy in mixed football	3
Kicking off: Violence, honour, identity and masculinity in Argentinian football chants	3
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	3
Auditory and visual sensory modalities in the velodrome and the practice of becoming a track cyclist	3
Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China: (Re)crafting contours of a metropolitan cityscape	3
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men	3
The “Boys’ Club”, sexual harassment, and discriminatory resourcing: An exploration of the barriers faced by women sport officials in Australian basketball	2
Performative nationalism in Polish football stadiums and fans’ views and attitudes: Evidence from quantitative research	2
“That's where you start to think like, does anyone actually listen to or watch women's sport?” Gender Regimes and Students Experiences on Higher Education Sport Courses	2
What’s in a game? A dialectic of competition and cooperation in Squid Game	2
Moving Away: Intra-National Migration Experiences of Brazilian Men Elite Futsal Players During Youth	2
‘A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman’: Feminisation in horse racing in Poland	2
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space	2
A rare dance	2
‘You can rent it for a while, but it is our house’: Sports fans’ experience of returning ‘home’ to a new multipurpose stadium	2
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	2
Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit	2
(Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport: A chain of legitimating and de-legitimating acts	2
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist	2
‘I was really, really shocked’: A sociological exploration of the transition experiences of English Youth Academy male footballers from school to work	2
Responder or promoter? investigating the role of nation-state in globalization: The case of China’s strategies in the global wushu movement	2
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup	2
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China	2
The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)	2
Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team	2
Black male college athlete identity: A scoping review	2
“Before I am biologically a male, I am me”: Exploring gender identity of South Korean male exotic polers	2