OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology of Sport Journal is 3. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	40
Gender, Sexual, and Sports Fan Identities	23
Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams	18
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	16
“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 Kingdom	13
Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Be Paid? A Public Opinion Analysis	13
Moving Beyond Models: Theorizing Physical Disability in the Sociology of Sport	10
“You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”: Exploring Positive Pain in Competitive Swimming	10
Privileging Difference: Negotiating Gender Essentialism in U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer	10
Promoting Para Athlete Activism: Critical Insights From Key Stakeholders in Ireland	9
Women Yoga Practitioners’ Experiences in the Pandemic: From Collective Exhaustion to Affirmative Ethics	9
The Talent Paradox: Disenchantment, Disengagement, and Damage Through Sport	9
Get That S.O.B. Off the Field: A Critical Discourse Analysis of NFL Team Owners’ Responses to President Trump’s Comments About Athlete Protests	8
Sport Advocacy: The Art of Persuasion and Its By-Products	8
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport	8
Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations	7
Soccer, CTE, and the Cultural Representation of Dementia	7
The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports	7
“We Already Do Enough Around Equality and Diversity”: Action Taken by Student Union Officers to Promote LGBT+ Inclusion in University Sport	7
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	7
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	7
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	6
Undoing Gender or Overdoing Gender? Women MMA Athletes’ Intimate Partnering and the Relational Maintenance of Femininity	6
Social Integration of People With a Migration Background in European Sports Clubs	6
Decolonizing Sports Sociology is a “Verb not a Noun”: Indigenizing Our Way to Reconciliation and Inclusion in the 21st Century? Alan Ingham Memorial Lecture	6

“People Still Believe a Bicycle Is for a Poor Person”: Features of “Bicycles for Development” Organizations in Uganda and Perspectives of Practitioners	6
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	5
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor	5
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	5
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	5
The Key Role of Sport Policies for the Popularity of Women’s Sports: A Case Study on Women’s Soccer in Germany	5
The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment	5
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	5
“The Best Recovery You Could Possibly Get”: Sleep, Rest, and the National Basketball Association	5
“The Club Management Ignores Us”: Gender-Power Relations in Women’s Football in Turkey	5
Marketing Politics and Resistance: Mobilizing Black Pain in National Football League Publicity	5
Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives	4
Ice Dancing to Arirang in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games: The Intersection of Music, Identity, and Sport	4
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media	4
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball	4
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	4
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	4
Athletes as “Sites of Normative Intersectionality”: Critically Exploring the Ontology of Influence in Sport Coaching	4
The Changing Nature of Gay Rugby Clubs in the United Kingdom	4
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage	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	4
The Myth of Load Management: Sleep and Recovery in the Women’s National Basketball Association	4
Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant	4
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	4
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District	4
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	4
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling	3
Male High School Sport Participation and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Adulthood	3
Race and Socioeconomic Composition of the High Schools of National Football League Players	3
Fear, Anger, and Loneliness: Emotional Pain and Referee Attrition in English Grassroots Football	3
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	3
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	3
A New Spin on Gender: How Parents of Male Baton Twirlers (Un)Do Gender Essentialism	3
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 Cup	3
“A Breath of Fresh Air”: Media Framing of a Unique National Football League Draft Pick	3
One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back: Exploring Cultural Backlash and Hockey Masculinity on Twitter	3
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	3
“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America	3
Jiu-Jitsu and Society: Male Mental Health on the Mats	3
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	3
Fitness Philanthropy: Exploring a Movement at the Nexus of Leisure, Charity, and Events	3
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	3
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	3
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production	3
Women’s Bodies, Femininity, and Spacetimemattering: A Baradian Analysis of the Activewear Phenomenon	3
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”	3