Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners22
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport17
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’17
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept14
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport12
Nature sport’s ism problem9
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports8
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship7
The allure of sports in western culture7
Is bodybuilding a sport?6
A just organized youth sport6
The puzzle of sports fandom6
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law6
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport5
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems4
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence4
Boredom, sport, and games4
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences4
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport3
Time and spectacle: an insight of chess at the era of late capitalism3
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 97819429569453
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport3
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport3
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge2
Magnificent Utopian games2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works2
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research2
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 Books2
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art2
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