OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards Diffractive Ways of Knowing Women’s Moving Bodies: A Baradian Experiment With the Fitbit–Motherhood Entanglement	33
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	22
Gender, Sexual, and Sports Fan Identities	20
Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams	14
“The Stories That Will Make a Difference Aren’t the Easy Ones”: Outdoor Recreation, the Wilderness Ideal, and Complicating Settler Mobility	14
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	14
“I Just Want to Be Left Alone”: Novel Sociological Insights Into Dramaturgical Demands on Professional Athletes	12
Decolonizing Sport Science: High Performance Sport, Indigenous Cultures, and Women's Rugby	12
Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Be Paid? A Public Opinion Analysis	11
Once More, With Feeling: Sport, National Anthems, and the Collective Power of Affect	11
“I Do Worry That Football Will Become Over-Feminized”: Ambiguities in Fan Reflections on the Gender Order in Men’s Professional Football in the United Kingdom	10
Women Yoga Practitioners’ Experiences in the Pandemic: From Collective Exhaustion to Affirmative Ethics	9
The Talent Paradox: Disenchantment, Disengagement, and Damage Through Sport	9
Privileging Difference: Negotiating Gender Essentialism in U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer	8
Moving Beyond Models: Theorizing Physical Disability in the Sociology of Sport	8
Get That S.O.B. Off the Field: A Critical Discourse Analysis of NFL Team Owners’ Responses to President Trump’s Comments About Athlete Protests	7
Sport Advocacy: The Art of Persuasion and Its By-Products	6
“You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”: Exploring Positive Pain in Competitive Swimming	6
“We Already Do Enough Around Equality and Diversity”: Action Taken by Student Union Officers to Promote LGBT+ Inclusion in University Sport	6
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	6
Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations	6
“People Still Believe a Bicycle Is for a Poor Person”: Features of “Bicycles for Development” Organizations in Uganda and Perspectives of Practitioners	6
Undoing Gender or Overdoing Gender? Women MMA Athletes’ Intimate Partnering and the Relational Maintenance of Femininity	6
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport	6
Promoting Para Athlete Activism: Critical Insights From Key Stakeholders in Ireland	6

The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment	5
“My Country is Better Than Yours”: Delineating Differences Between Six Countries’ National Identity, Fan Identity, and Media Consumption During the 2018 Olympic Games	5
Decolonizing Sports Sociology is a “Verb not a Noun”: Indigenizing Our Way to Reconciliation and Inclusion in the 21st Century? Alan Ingham Memorial Lecture	5
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	5
“I Was Raised a Buddhist”: Tiger Woods, Race, and Asian-ness	5
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	5
Social Integration of People With a Migration Background in European Sports Clubs	5
“The Best Recovery You Could Possibly Get”: Sleep, Rest, and the National Basketball Association	4
White Women Smiling? Media Representations of Women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games	4
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District	4
Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives	4
“The Club Management Ignores Us”: Gender-Power Relations in Women’s Football in Turkey	4
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	4
Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant	4
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	4
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage	4
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	3
Sports Participation and Attitudes Toward Race and Ethnicity: A Study of Twelfth-Grade Students in the United States	3
The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports	3
Athletes as “Sites of Normative Intersectionality”: Critically Exploring the Ontology of Influence in Sport Coaching	3
Jiu-Jitsu and Society: Male Mental Health on the Mats	3
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	3
Soccer, CTE, and the Cultural Representation of Dementia	3
The Key Role of Sport Policies for the Popularity of Women’s Sports: A Case Study on Women’s Soccer in Germany	3
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	3
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	3
A New Spin on Gender: How Parents of Male Baton Twirlers (Un)Do Gender Essentialism	3
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	3
Race and Socioeconomic Composition of the High Schools of National Football League Players	3
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	3
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”	3
Fitness Philanthropy: Exploring a Movement at the Nexus of Leisure, Charity, and Events	2
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	2
Male High School Sport Participation and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Adulthood	2
Coaching With Latour in the Sociomateriality of Sport: A Cartography for Practice	2
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball	2
Hip-Hop and Sport—An Introduction: Reflections on Culture, Language, and Identity	2
The Influence of Confucianism on Para-Sport Activism	2
Ice Dancing to Arirang in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games: The Intersection of Music, Identity, and Sport	2
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor	2
An Exploration of Safe Space: From a Youth Bicycle Program to the Road	2
Performance Factors and Strategies Favored by French Olympic Athletes	2
Sport for Development and Transformative Social Change: The Potential of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach to Reconceptualize a Long-Standing Problem	2
Overcoming Gender Barriers in Sports—An Opportunity of Adventure/High Risk Sports?	2
Marketing Politics and Resistance: Mobilizing Black Pain in National Football League Publicity	2
We’ve Come a Long Way, But We Could Be Doing Better: Gendered Commentary in U.S. Media Coverage of the 1999 and 2019 Women’s World Cup	2
Heroes at Home, Suspects Abroad? National and International Perceptions of Elite-Sports Success	2
One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back: Exploring Cultural Backlash and Hockey Masculinity on Twitter	2
Factors That Reduce Parental Concern for Concussion Risks in Youth Tackle Football	2
The Changing Nature of Gay Rugby Clubs in the United Kingdom	2

Women’s Bodies, Femininity, and Spacetimemattering: A Baradian Analysis of the Activewear Phenomenon	2
The Uses of Running: Urban Homelessness, Creative Initiatives, and “Recovery” in the Neoliberal City	2
Learning to Lead? Race and Perceived Effects of College on Life Skill Development Among Sportswomen	2
Indigenous Youth (Non)Participation in Euro-Canadian Sport: Applying Theories of Refusal	1
Fear, Anger, and Loneliness: Emotional Pain and Referee Attrition in English Grassroots Football	1
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	1
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective	1
Too Many Chairs: Spatiality and Disability in Integrated Sporting Spaces	1
Athlete–Student–Influencer: How the Introduction of Name, Image, and Likeness in Intercollegiate Athletics Further Complicates Applications of Role Theory	1
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	1
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo	1
Trajectories of Sport Participation Among Children and Adolescents Across Different Socio-Economic Categories: Multilevel Findings From the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth	1
Critical Race Theory: Black Athletic Sporting Experiences in the United States	1
“Soul on Ice”: Black Commodification, Race, and the National Hockey League	1
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	1
“A Lot of What We Ride Is Their Land”: White Settler Canadian Understandings of Mountain Biking, Indigeneity, and Recreational Colonialism	1
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	1
Mascot Nation: The Controversy Over Native American Representation in Sports	1
“A Breath of Fresh Air”: Media Framing of a Unique National Football League Draft Pick	1
Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools	1
A Different World: A BlackCrit Reconceptualization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletics	1
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production	1
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media	1
A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	1
Collective Memory and Social Movements: Football Sites of Memory in Supporters’ Activism	1
The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game	1
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	1
Gender Equality and Economic Entanglements in Male-Dominated Sport Organizations: The Disruptive Value of Australian Rules Football Women	1
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes	1
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	1
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	1
Engaging Multiple Medical Epistemologies: Medical Professionals’ Distance Running Advice and Treatment	1
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey	1
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography	1
Mountain Equipment Co-Op, “Diversity Work,” and the “Inclusive” Politics of Erasure	1
Blazing a New Trail: The Role of Communication Technology in Women’s Mountain Biking	1
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	1
My Ambitionz az a Qualitative Ridah1: A 2PAC Analysis of the Black Male Baller in Amerikkka2	1
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	1
Racist State and the State of Race: An Analysis of Instagram Commentary Pertaining to LeBron James	1
Theorizing the Moving Body in Competitive Sport	1
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	1
Managing Fear and Fantasy: Cultural Politics and Gameplay Governance in the National Basketball Association, 1990–2006	1
The Myth of Load Management: Sleep and Recovery in the Women’s National Basketball Association	1
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	1
Sport and Physical Activity Practices Examined Through Parents’ Discourse About Children’s Rugby League	1
Contextualizing Replay: Remediation, Affective Economies, Ontological Authority, and the Facade of Certitude	1
“They are used to the traditional ways of doing things”: Older Men’s Experiences of Curling’s New Rationality	1
Rugby, Nationalism, and Deaf Athlete Counterhegemony: Insights From the Case of Fiji	1