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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociology of Sport Journal is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	129
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	42
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	29
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	22
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	20
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	19
Nonnormative Bodies in Sport: Connecting Dominant Gender Discourses on Trans, Nonbinary, Pregnant, and Mothering Athletes	16
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	15
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	14
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	12
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	12
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	12
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	11
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	11
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	11
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	10
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	10
Finding Identity and Community: The Hybrid, Heterogenous, and Multiple Experiences of Vietnamese Americans in Sport and Physical Activity	10
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	10
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	10
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	10
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	9
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	8
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	8
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	8

“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	8
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	8
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	7
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	7
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	7
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	7
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	7
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	7
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	7
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Man-Not Like Us: The Cultural Castration of Black Athletic Resistance	7
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	7
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	7
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex	7
You Look Like Rugby: Reflexivity and the Embodied Politics of Ethnography in Sport Criminology	6
Sanctified Bets? Religiosity, Gender, and Sports Gambling in the United States	6
Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams	6
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	5
Third Space Identity Negotiation: A Case Study of Muslim Canadians and Faith- and Community-Based Sport	5
A Proposal for an “Environmental Sports Journalism” (ESJ) Approach: Principles and Illustrative Examples From Coverage of the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games	5
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	5
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	5
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	5
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	5
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
(Dana) White Privilege: Sports Media Coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship Domestic Violence	5
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	5
Letter From the Editor	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	4
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics	4
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	4
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	4
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	4
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	4
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	4
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	4
Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport	4
What Is FIFA For?	3
Necropolitics Narratives and Disposition of Lives in Sport Spectacle: Negotiating the Death of Mexican Boxer Jeanette Zacarías Zapata in Quebec’s Sport/Media Landscape	3
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	3
What Are the Olympics For?	3
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	3
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development	3
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling	3
Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?	3
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	3
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	3
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor	3

The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism	3
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	3
On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster	3
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	3
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	3
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts: The Death of Colin Meads and the New Zealand Imagination	2
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	2
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization	2
Gender Equality in the “Next Stage” of the “New Age?” Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup	2
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	2
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity	2
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	2
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19	2
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness	2
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	2
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf	2
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	2
Sports Heroes and the Invulnerability of Their Reputation to Sportswashing: The Case of Rafael Nadal	2
On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women	2
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation1	2
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion	2
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	2
Sporting the Sacred: Redescribing the Study of Religion in the Sociology of Sport	2
Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self	2
Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and Gender S	2
“Is Black Culture Marketable?”: Angel Reese, TikTok Branding, and Respectability Politics in the Name, Image, and Likeness Era	2
Religiosity and U.S. Adult Support for Youth Tackle Football: Risk Aversion or Playing for the Glory of God?	2
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win	2
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024	2
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender	2
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun	2
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress	2
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media	1
What Is a Girl Worth?: Gender-Based Violence and Accountability in SportsWorld	1
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	1
“Sorry If I Offended”: The Art of Nonapology, Racism, and White Supremacy in Sport	1
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences	1
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey	1
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production	1
Gender Equality and Economic Entanglements in Male-Dominated Sport Organizations: The Disruptive Value of Australian Rules Football Women	1
A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket	1
Sport or Party? The University Sports in Paraná	1
Conspirituality in Sport: How QAnon, White Supremacist Ideology, and Other Nonscientific-Based Ideas Came to Infiltrate the Sports World	1
Tackling Ableism in Sport and Active Recreation to Ensure Participation Parity for Disabled Young People in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization Through Physical Activity	1
Sports Attitudes in Childhood and Income in Adulthood	1
The Penalty That’s Never Called: Sexism in Men’s Hockey Culture	1
Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020)	1
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine	1
Erratum. Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and	1
Anti-Black Misandry as an Emotional Reflection With Black American Male College Athletes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study	1
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events	1
The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game	1
Embodied Cultural Capital, Social Class, Race and Ethnicity, and Sports Performance in Girls Soccer	1
Brittney Griner, Intersectionality, and “Woke Politics”: A Critical Examination of Brittney Griner’s Return to the United States	1
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	1
“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America	1
Scientific Neglect: Cis-Bias in the Sociology of Sport’s Approach to Trans Athletes	1
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and Machine Futures	1
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: The Contested Terrains of Trans and Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion	1
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace	1
Athlete Autonomy and Wearable Technology: Collegiate Athletes’ Understanding and Perceptions of the Proprietary Use of Their Physical Performance Data	1
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy	1
A Different World: A BlackCrit Reconceptualization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletics	1
“Legalize Safe Standing” in English Football: Complicating the Collective and Individual Dimensions of Social Movement Activism	1
The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game	1
Recuperative Wokeness: Nike and the Commodification of Potential for Social Change	1
Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization	1