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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	19
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	18
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	15
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	14
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	10
Nature sport’s ism problem	8
A just organized youth sport	7
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	7
The allure of sports in western culture	6
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	6
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	6
The puzzle of sports fandom	5
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	4
Boredom, sport, and games	4
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	4
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	4
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement	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	3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	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

A comparative philosophy of sport and art	2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom	2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	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
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	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
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research	2