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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians	69
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	30
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	30
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	22
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	14
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	14
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	12
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	12
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	11
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	10
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	10
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	10
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	9
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	9
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	8
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	8
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	8
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	8
“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces	8
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	7
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	7
Running (for) the Military: An Ethnography of Sport Militarism at the Canada Army Run	7
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	7
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	7
“Track’s Coed, I Never Thought of It as Separate”: Challenging, Reproducing, and Negotiating Gender Stereotypes in Track and Field	6

Athletes as “Sites of Normative Intersectionality”: Critically Exploring the Ontology of Influence in Sport Coaching	6
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	6
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	6
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	6
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	6
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	6
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	6
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey	6
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	6
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport	5
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	5
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	5
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	5
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	5
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	5
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Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	5
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes	5
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	5
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	5
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	5
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	4
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	4
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	4
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	4
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	4
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	4
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	4
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	4
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	4
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage	4
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	4
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	4
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	3
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	3
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	3
What Are the Olympics For?	3
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	3
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics	3
Letter From the Editor	3
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	3
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	3
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	3
Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant	3
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective	3
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	3
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	3
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	2
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	2

The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024	2
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy: Examining Olympic Channel Content Through a Gendered Lens	2
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development	2
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	2
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	2
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	2
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	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
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization	2
Necropolitics Narratives and Disposition of Lives in Sport Spectacle: Negotiating the Death of Mexican Boxer Jeanette Zacarías Zapata in Quebec’s Sport/Media Landscape	2
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling	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
On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster	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
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
On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women	2
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	2
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism	2
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	2
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	2
Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?	2
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	2
“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America	1
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media	1
A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket	1
“Sorry If I Offended”: The Art of Nonapology, Racism, and White Supremacy in Sport	1
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	1
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace	1
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	1
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	1
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win	1
Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Be Paid? A Public Opinion Analysis	1
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences	1
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production	1
Moving Beyond Models: Theorizing Physical Disability in the Sociology of Sport	1
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and Machine Futures	1
Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020)	1
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events	1
Gender, Sexual, and Sports Fan Identities	1
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo	1
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”	1
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey	1
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness	1
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress	1
Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives	1
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation1	1
Anti-Black Misandry as an Emotional Reflection With Black American Male College Athletes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study	1
Exposures of Hypermasculinity: Aesthetic Portrayals of Disengaged “Hockey Boys” in a Specialized Sports Academy	1
Sports Attitudes in Childhood and Income in Adulthood	1
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	1
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun	1
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy	1
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion	1
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19	1
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity	1
Religiosity and U.S. Adult Support for Youth Tackle Football: Risk Aversion or Playing for the Glory of God?	1
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender	1
“A Lot of What We Ride Is Their Land”: White Settler Canadian Understandings of Mountain Biking, Indigeneity, and Recreational Colonialism	1