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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	138
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	44
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	24
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	21
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	19
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	18
Nonnormative Bodies in Sport: Connecting Dominant Gender Discourses on Trans, Nonbinary, Pregnant, and Mothering Athletes	18
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	14
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	14
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	13
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	13
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	12
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	12
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	12
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	12
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	11
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	11
Finding Identity and Community: The Hybrid, Heterogenous, and Multiple Experiences of Vietnamese Americans in Sport and Physical Activity	11
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	10
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	10
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	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
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	10
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	9
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	9

Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	9
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	8
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	7
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	7
You Look Like Rugby: Reflexivity and the Embodied Politics of Ethnography in Sport Criminology	7
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	7
Man-Not Like Us: The Cultural Castration of Black Athletic Resistance	7
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex	7
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	7
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	7
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Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	7
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	7
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	6
Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams	6
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	6
Understanding Informal Sport Through Institutional Bricolage	6
Sanctified Bets? Religiosity, Gender, and Sports Gambling in the United States	6
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	5
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	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
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	5
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	5
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	5
(Dana) White Privilege: Sports Media Coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship Domestic Violence	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	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
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	4
Letter From the Editor	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
U.S. Sports Diplomacy as Counterinsurgency: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective	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
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
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	3
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	3
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	3
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development	3
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	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
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	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
What Is FIFA For?	3

“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling	3
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	3
Sports Heroes and the Invulnerability of Their Reputation to Sportswashing: The Case of Rafael Nadal	3
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	3
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism	3
What Are the Olympics For?	3
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	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
Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?	3
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender	2
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress	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
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	2
Sporting the Sacred: Redescribing the Study of Religion in the Sociology of Sport	2
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win	2
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events	2
Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020)	2
“Sorry If I Offended”: The Art of Nonapology, Racism, and White Supremacy in Sport	2
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine	2
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion	2
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19	2
Religiosity and U.S. Adult Support for Youth Tackle Football: Risk Aversion or Playing for the Glory of God?	2
Most Valuable Perpetrator: Exploring the Athletic Market Value of National Football League Players and Its Impact on Consequences for Gender-Based Violence	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
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	2
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	2
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun	2
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy	2
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences	2
Athlete Autonomy and Wearable Technology: Collegiate Athletes’ Understanding and Perceptions of the Proprietary Use of Their Physical Performance Data	2
On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women	2
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	2
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024	2
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey	2
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf	2
Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self	2
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity	2
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	2
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace	2
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness	2
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation1	2