OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology of Sport Journal is 4. 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
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
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	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
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
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	10
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
Finding Identity and Community: The Hybrid, Heterogenous, and Multiple Experiences of Vietnamese Americans in Sport and Physical Activity	9
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	8
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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