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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	129
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	42
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	20
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	19
Nonnormative Bodies in Sport: Connecting Dominant Gender Discourses on Trans, Nonbinary, Pregnant, and Mothering Athletes	16
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	15
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	12
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	12
#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	11
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	11
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	11
Finding Identity and Community: The Hybrid, Heterogenous, and Multiple Experiences of Vietnamese Americans in Sport and Physical Activity	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
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	10
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	10
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	10
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	10
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	9
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	8
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	8
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	8

Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	8
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	8
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	7
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	7
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	7
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Man-Not Like Us: The Cultural Castration of Black Athletic Resistance	7
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	7
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	7
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex	7
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	7
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	7
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	7
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	7
Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams	6
You Look Like Rugby: Reflexivity and the Embodied Politics of Ethnography in Sport Criminology	6
Sanctified Bets? Religiosity, Gender, and Sports Gambling in the United States	6
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	5
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	5
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	5
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
(Dana) White Privilege: Sports Media Coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship Domestic Violence	5
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	5
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	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
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	5
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	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
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	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
Letter From the Editor	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	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