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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	127
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	41
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	18
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	17
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	16
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	14
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	13
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	12
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	12
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	12
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	11
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	11
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	10
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	10
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	10
Finding Identity and Community: The Hybrid, Heterogenous, and Multiple Experiences of Vietnamese Americans in Sport and Physical Activity	9
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	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	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
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	8
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	7
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	7
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	7

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“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	7
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	7
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	7
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	7
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	7
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	7
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	7
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	7
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	7
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	7
Sanctified Bets? Religiosity, Gender, and Sports Gambling in the United States	6
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex	6
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	6
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	6
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	5
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Third Space Identity Negotiation: A Case Study of Muslim Canadians and Faith- and Community-Based Sport	5
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	5
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	5
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	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
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of 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
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	5
Letter From the Editor	5
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	4
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	4
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	4
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	4
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	4
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor	4
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	4
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics	4
What Are the Olympics For?	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
“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
“Is Black Culture Marketable?”: Angel Reese, TikTok Branding, and Respectability Politics in the Name, Image, and Likeness Era	3
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	3
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development	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
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	3
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	3
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	3
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism	3
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	3
Sports Heroes and the Invulnerability of Their Reputation to Sportswashing: The Case of Rafael Nadal	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
On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster	3
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity	2
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences	2
Religiosity and U.S. Adult Support for Youth Tackle Football: Risk Aversion or Playing for the Glory of God?	2
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion	2
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	2
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun	2
Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self	2
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	2
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf	2
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts: The Death of Colin Meads and the New Zealand Imagination	2
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender	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
On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women	2
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey	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
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win	2
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	2
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	2
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization	2
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress	2
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events	2
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation1	2
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024	2
Athlete Autonomy and Wearable Technology: Collegiate Athletes’ Understanding and Perceptions of the Proprietary Use of Their Physical Performance Data	2
Sporting the Sacred: Redescribing the Study of Religion in the Sociology of Sport	2
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness	2
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	2
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19	2
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy	1
Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization Through Physical Activity	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
Sport or Party? The University Sports in Paraná	1
What Is a Girl Worth?: Gender-Based Violence and Accountability in SportsWorld	1
Conspirituality in Sport: How QAnon, White Supremacist Ideology, and Other Nonscientific-Based Ideas Came to Infiltrate the Sports World	1
Scientific Neglect: Cis-Bias in the Sociology of Sport’s Approach to Trans Athletes	1
“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America	1
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and Machine Futures	1
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine	1
Sports Attitudes in Childhood and Income in Adulthood	1
Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization	1
“Soul on Ice”: Black Commodification, Race, and the National Hockey League	1
Embodied Cultural Capital, Social Class, Race and Ethnicity, and Sports Performance in Girls Soccer	1
The Black College Athletes’ Burden: A Critical Analysis of Race, Civic Engagement, and Activism of National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletes	1
Brittney Griner, Intersectionality, and “Woke Politics”: A Critical Examination of Brittney Griner’s Return to the United States	1
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media	1
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	1
A Different World: A BlackCrit Reconceptualization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletics	1
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	1
Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020)	1
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace	1
Anti-Black Misandry as an Emotional Reflection With Black American Male College Athletes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study	1
Regulating Bodies: Elite Sport Policies and Their Unintended Consequences	1
Recuperative Wokeness: Nike and the Commodification of Potential for Social Change	1
The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game	1
Gender Equality and Economic Entanglements in Male-Dominated Sport Organizations: The Disruptive Value of Australian Rules Football Women	1
The Penalty That’s Never Called: Sexism in Men’s Hockey Culture	1
A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket	1
Women Yoga Practitioners’ Experiences in the Pandemic: From Collective Exhaustion to Affirmative Ethics	1
Tackling Ableism in Sport and Active Recreation to Ensure Participation Parity for Disabled Young People in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
“Sorry If I Offended”: The Art of Nonapology, Racism, and White Supremacy in Sport	1
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: The Contested Terrains of Trans and Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion	1
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production	1