Sociology of Sport Journal

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict40
Gender, Sexual, and Sports Fan Identities23
Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams18
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports16
“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 Kingdom13
Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Be Paid? A Public Opinion Analysis13
“You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”: Exploring Positive Pain in Competitive Swimming10
Privileging Difference: Negotiating Gender Essentialism in U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer10
Moving Beyond Models: Theorizing Physical Disability in the Sociology of Sport10
The Talent Paradox: Disenchantment, Disengagement, and Damage Through Sport9
Promoting Para Athlete Activism: Critical Insights From Key Stakeholders in Ireland9
Women Yoga Practitioners’ Experiences in the Pandemic: From Collective Exhaustion to Affirmative Ethics9
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport8
Get That S.O.B. Off the Field: A Critical Discourse Analysis of NFL Team Owners’ Responses to President Trump’s Comments About Athlete Protests8
Sport Advocacy: The Art of Persuasion and Its By-Products8
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing7
“We Already Do Enough Around Equality and Diversity”: Action Taken by Student Union Officers to Promote LGBT+ Inclusion in University Sport7
Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations7
Soccer, CTE, and the Cultural Representation of Dementia7
The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports7
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport7
Undoing Gender or Overdoing Gender? Women MMA Athletes’ Intimate Partnering and the Relational Maintenance of Femininity6
Social Integration of People With a Migration Background in European Sports Clubs6
Decolonizing Sports Sociology is a “Verb not a Noun”: Indigenizing Our Way to Reconciliation and Inclusion in the 21st Century? Alan Ingham Memorial Lecture6
“People Still Believe a Bicycle Is for a Poor Person”: Features of “Bicycles for Development” Organizations in Uganda and Perspectives of Practitioners6
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults6
“The Best Recovery You Could Possibly Get”: Sleep, Rest, and the National Basketball Association5
The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment5
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism5
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor5
“The Club Management Ignores Us”: Gender-Power Relations in Women’s Football in Turkey5
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists5
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions5
The Key Role of Sport Policies for the Popularity of Women’s Sports: A Case Study on Women’s Soccer in Germany5
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches5
Marketing Politics and Resistance: Mobilizing Black Pain in National Football League Publicity5
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage4
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 S4
Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives4
The Myth of Load Management: Sleep and Recovery in the Women’s National Basketball Association4
Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant4
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball4
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District4
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”4
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction4
Ice Dancing to Arirang in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games: The Intersection of Music, Identity, and Sport4
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media4
The Changing Nature of Gay Rugby Clubs in the United Kingdom4
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play4
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence4
Athletes as “Sites of Normative Intersectionality”: Critically Exploring the Ontology of Influence in Sport Coaching4
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement4
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 Cup3
“A Breath of Fresh Air”: Media Framing of a Unique National Football League Draft Pick3
One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back: Exploring Cultural Backlash and Hockey Masculinity on Twitter3
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production3
Women’s Bodies, Femininity, and Spacetimemattering: A Baradian Analysis of the Activewear Phenomenon3
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 Cup3
Fitness Philanthropy: Exploring a Movement at the Nexus of Leisure, Charity, and Events3
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine3
Fear, Anger, and Loneliness: Emotional Pain and Referee Attrition in English Grassroots Football3
“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America3
Jiu-Jitsu and Society: Male Mental Health on the Mats3
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”3
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling3
Male High School Sport Participation and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Adulthood3
Race and Socioeconomic Composition of the High Schools of National Football League Players3
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research3
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada3
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”3
A New Spin on Gender: How Parents of Male Baton Twirlers (Un)Do Gender Essentialism3
“A Lot of What We Ride Is Their Land”: White Settler Canadian Understandings of Mountain Biking, Indigeneity, and Recreational Colonialism2
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts2
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity2
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games2
An Exploration of Safe Space: From a Youth Bicycle Program to the Road2
Exposures of Hypermasculinity: Aesthetic Portrayals of Disengaged “Hockey Boys” in a Specialized Sports Academy2
Collective Memory and Social Movements: Football Sites of Memory in Supporters’ Activism2
Overcoming Gender Barriers in Sports—An Opportunity of Adventure/High Risk Sports?2
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup2
Athlete–Student–Influencer: How the Introduction of Name, Image, and Likeness in Intercollegiate Athletics Further Complicates Applications of Role Theory2
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness2
Performance Factors and Strategies Favored by French Olympic Athletes2
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective2
Racist State and the State of Race: An Analysis of Instagram Commentary Pertaining to LeBron James2
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated2
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL2
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey2
Factors That Reduce Parental Concern for Concussion Risks in Youth Tackle Football2
Coaching With Latour in the Sociomateriality of Sport: A Cartography for Practice2
Sport for Development and Transformative Social Change: The Potential of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach to Reconceptualize a Long-Standing Problem2
The Influence of Confucianism on Para-Sport Activism2
A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing1
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies1
Weighing the Body: Women Olympic Weightlifters Negotiating Weight Class, Body Image, and the Unruly Body1
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography1
Rugby, Nationalism, and Deaf Athlete Counterhegemony: Insights From the Case of Fiji1
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism1
The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game1
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes1
Sport and Physical Activity Practices Examined Through Parents’ Discourse About Children’s Rugby League1
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma1
Indigenous Youth (Non)Participation in Euro-Canadian Sport: Applying Theories of Refusal1
Too Many Chairs: Spatiality and Disability in Integrated Sporting Spaces1
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary1
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods1
“Soul on Ice”: Black Commodification, Race, and the National Hockey League1
Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools1
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism1
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo1
Experiences of Normalization of Pain and Injury in Elite Adolescent Basketball1
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks1
A Different World: A BlackCrit Reconceptualization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletics1
Running (for) the Military: An Ethnography of Sport Militarism at the Canada Army Run1
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 Games1
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever1
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance1
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy1
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization1
Theorizing the Moving Body in Competitive Sport1
Gender Equality and Economic Entanglements in Male-Dominated Sport Organizations: The Disruptive Value of Australian Rules Football Women1
Mountain Equipment Co-Op, “Diversity Work,” and the “Inclusive” Politics of Erasure1
The Penalty That’s Never Called: Sexism in Men’s Hockey Culture1
Unrealistic Expectations and Future Status Coercion in Minor League Baseball Players’ Future-Oriented Labor1
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