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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘A vision of paradise lost’: coaching as a grasshopper rather than an ant	18
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	17
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	15
Nature sport’s ism problem	14
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	14
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	7
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	7
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context	7
The allure of sports in western culture	6
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	6
A just organized youth sport	5
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	5
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	4
The puzzle of sports fandom	4
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
Boredom, sport, and games	4
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	4
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement	3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	3
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	3

Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by	2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki	2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781942956945	2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art	2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom	2