OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Philosophy 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Violence and values in combat sport	25
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	18
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	11
Use of logic as a Suitsian game	11
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	10
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	8
Nature sport’s ism problem	8
Dangerous sport and organizational responsibility: the case of football and the duty of care	7
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	7
A just organized youth sport	6
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	6
The allure of sports in western culture	6
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	5
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	5
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	5
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	4
The puzzle of sports fandom	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	4
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
Death in sport: a philosophical paradox of existential modes of necrophilia and biophilia	4
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	4
Boredom, sport, and games	4
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	3
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki	3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement	3

Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	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
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3
Paradox in the process of gamification and its consequences within the play–game–sport triad	3
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	3
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport	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
The parental dilemma of talented children	2
From schizophrenic desiring-machines to neoliberal spectators: deleuzian notes on Turkish football fandom	2
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2
Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport,	2
The argument from self-respect for gender wage equality in sport	2
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport	2
Time and spectacle: an insight of chess at the era of late capitalism	2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
Magnificent Utopian games	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