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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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Violence and values in combat sport	26
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	18
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	12
Use of logic as a Suitsian game	12
When games become work: fatigue and the vanishing player	11
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	10
Martial arts and the philosophy of sport	10
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	8
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	8
Dangerous sport and organizational responsibility: the case of football and the duty of care	7
Nature sport’s ism problem	7
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	6
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	5
A just organized youth sport	5
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	5
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
The puzzle of sports fandom	4
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	4
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	4
Boredom, sport, and games	4
Paradox in the process of gamification and its consequences within the play–game–sport triad	3
The value of combat sports as a healing tool for survivors of sexual violence	3

On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	3
Time and spectacle: an insight of chess at the era of late capitalism	3
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	3
Suffering and Schadenfreude in 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
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	3
Zero-sum competition in sport: a critique	2
Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport,	2
The parental dilemma of talented children	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
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
From schizophrenic desiring-machines to neoliberal spectators: deleuzian notes on Turkish football fandom	2
The argument from self-respect for gender wage equality in sport	2
Athletes as workers	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research	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
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport	2
Games as agential yoga: athletic virtues and their agential counterparts	2
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport	2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2