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Papers

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

Article	Citations
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians	84
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	36
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	26
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	19
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	18
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	14
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	13
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	12
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	12
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	12
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	11
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	11
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	10
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	10
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	9
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	9
“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces	9
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	9
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	9
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	8
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	8
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	8
“Track’s Coed, I Never Thought of It as Separate”: Challenging, Reproducing, and Negotiating Gender Stereotypes in Track and Field	8
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	7
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	7

Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	7
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	7
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	7
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	7
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	7
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	6
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	6
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	6
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	6
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	6
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	6
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Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	6
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	5
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	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
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	5
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	5
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex	5
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	5
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	5
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	4
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	4
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball	4
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics	4
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	4
What Are the Olympics For?	4
Letter From the Editor	4
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	4
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	4
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	4
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	4
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
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor	3
On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster	3
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	3
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	3
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization	3
“Is Black Culture Marketable?”: Angel Reese, TikTok Branding, and Respectability Politics in the Name, Image, and Likeness Era	3
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	3
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	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
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	3

Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?	3
Sports Heroes and the Invulnerability of Their Reputation to Sportswashing: The Case of Rafael Nadal	3
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	3
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	3
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism	3
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	3
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	3
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf	3
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	3
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events	2
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun	2
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity	2
Religiosity and U.S. Adult Support for Youth Tackle Football: Risk Aversion or Playing for the Glory of God?	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
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness	2
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	2
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation1	2
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender	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
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
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress	2
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences	2
“Sorry If I Offended”: The Art of Nonapology, Racism, and White Supremacy in Sport	2
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion	2
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	2
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey	2
On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women	2
Sport for Development and Transformative Social Change: The Potential of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach to Reconceptualize a Long-Standing Problem	2
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts: The Death of Colin Meads and the New Zealand Imagination	2
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	2
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19	2
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	2