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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Violence and values in combat sport	31
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	20
When games become work: fatigue and the vanishing player	12
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	12
Use of logic as a Suitsian game	12
Martial arts and the philosophy of sport	11
Recognition and the ethics of categorisation in sport	10
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	8
Nature sport’s ism problem	8
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	7
Dangerous sport and organizational responsibility: the case of football and the duty of care	7
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	6
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	6
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	5
Is bodybuilding a sport?	5
The puzzle of sports fandom	5
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	5
Boredom, sport, and games	5
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	5
A just organized youth sport	5
Death in sport: a philosophical paradox of existential modes of necrophilia and biophilia	4
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	4
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	4
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3

Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	3
Algorithmic authority and the epistemology of Olympic values: toward a theory of situated Olympism	3
Time and spectacle: an insight of chess at the era of late capitalism	3
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781942956945	3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	3
The value of combat sports as a healing tool for survivors of sexual violence	3
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	3
Paradox in the process of gamification and its consequences within the play–game–sport triad	3
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
Techno-optimism and the Enhanced Games: a critical analysis of medically supervised radical human enhancement	3
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	3
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research	2
On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport , by Matt Hoven, J. J. Carney, Max T. Engel Eugene, Oregon, Cascade Books	2
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport	2
From schizophrenic desiring-machines to neoliberal spectators: deleuzian notes on Turkish football fandom	2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Zero-sum competition in sport: a critique	2
Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport,	2
The parental dilemma of talented children	2
Superfund sport: birding as polluted nature sport	2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
The argument from self-respect for gender wage equality in sport	2
The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagons The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagons , edited by Holt, Jason and Ramsay, Marc, Routled	2
Athletes as workers	2
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport	2
Strengthening the status quo: moral regulation of anti-doping policy	1
Surfing and the philosophy of sport Surfing and the philosophy of sport , by Daniel Brennan, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7936-4078-9 (hardback), ISBN 978-1	1
American football, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and discontinuity of psychological personhood	1
Games as agential yoga: athletic virtues and their agential counterparts	1
W. J. Morgan and the return of philosophical elitism (to sport and beyond): hierarchy of games in debate	1
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport	1
Categorization, virtues in sport, and the relevance of social injustice: a tribute to J.S. Russell	1
Meaning in extremis	1
Easy games are still games for Suits	1
The role of risk in programming the skater’s eye	1
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White	1
The power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism	1
Cowboy professionalism: a cultural study of big-mountain tourism in the last frontier	1
Restoring Trust in Sport: Corruption Cases and Solutions	1
Women, autonomy and sport: different situations, different dangers	1
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?	1
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy	1
Courage and ultra-endurance sport	1
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports	1
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players	1
How bad can good sport be?	1
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition	1
The concession rule	1

World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development	1
Responses to contributors to ‘ the sport philosophy of J.S. Russell ’	1
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium	1
The role of risk in nature sports	1