OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of the History of Sport 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland	23
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa	11
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa	9
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer	8
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby	8
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–1941	7
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States	6
Developing Winning Ways for Women’s Sport: New Zealand’s National Netball Team	6
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr	5
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa	4
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms	4
The Polish Olympic Committee’s Subjection to the Communist Authorities in the Stalinist Period: An Inside Story	3
Professional Basketball, the ‘Hardship Case’ and the ‘Culture of Poverty’: The Social Construction of Black Basketball Players from Spencer Haywood to Moses Malone, 1969–1974	3
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes	3
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter	3
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development	3
Introduction: Africa in the Boxing Ring	3
Six Minutes in Berlin. Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics	3
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	2
‘Dis Football Sef … Na Wahala’: A Continental Contest That Troubled a Nation	2
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments	2
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)	2
Between Purity and Pragmatism: The Politics of Purebred Breeding and Racing of the Orlov Trotter in Imperial Russia, 1880–1915	2
Book Reviews: A Specificity of Historical Practice	2

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: Socio-Cultural Perspectives	2
‘A Democracy That Will Know Not the Differences of Race’: American ‘Globetrotting’ in South Africa from the 1920s through the 1980s in Perspective	2
Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955–1959	2
Image of ‘Sino-Western Essence’ in the Press: On the ‘Dual-Track’ Physical Training System of Chin Woo Athletic Federation	2
Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina: La Nuestra	2
Decathlon and the 2 Second Tent: From Discount to Innovation (1976–2008)	2
The Girl with the Torch: The Life Story of Gymnast Karin Lindberg Lindén	2
‘An Honour, Rather than a Disgrace’: Song Koon Poh, Apartheid Rugby, Tokkie’s Dragons and the Politics of Dissent and Confession	2
The Medical Examination of Lady Competitors: Sex Control in Skiing, 1967–2000	2
White Gold: Snowmaking, Resort Growth, and Skier Experience in the U.S. East, 1945–1971	2
Development of Japanese Martial Arts in Hungarian Sport Culture	2
Football, Propaganda and International Relations under Francoism: The 1960 and 1964 European Nations Cup and Their Impact on the International Press	2
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values	2
From Motions to Missions: Interrogating Sport Organization Annual Reports as Works of Sport Memory	2
A Mutual Dependency: Postcolonial Relations between the French Athletics Federation and French-Speaking African Athletics Federations (1956–1969)	2
Commodifying Race: The Portrayal of Bernardo Mikixi, an Angolan Mixed Martial Artist, in the Extreme Fighting Championship’s Advertising Materials in South Africa, 2009–2015	1
The Birth of Sports Medicine in Prewar Japan: A Perspective on Its Ideological and Organizational Origins	1
Sports in South America: A History	1
An Evaluation of Turkish Wrestling History during the Ottoman Empire	1
Media Framing of Women’s Football in Nigeria from the Early Twentieth Century to Present	1
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader	1
Regulating, Controlling and Using New Financial Inflows: The Introduction of a Modern Licensing Scheme in Swiss Professional Football (1992–2010)	1
Breaking New Ground: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Cricket in India, 1973–1991	1
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance	1
Cooperation of Sports Communities with the Government Apparatus in Poland in the Years 1945–1989	1
From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea	1
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’	1
On the Take: The 1910 Scandal That Changed Australian Football Forever	1
A Hotly Contested Affair: Hockey in Canada: The National Game in Documents	1
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan	1
Living Football, Navigating Politics: Salah Assad’s Life Story in Post-Colonial and Post-Conflict Algeria	1
The Trade Union Sport Organisation in Communist Romania between 1973 and 1989: Workplace Gymnastics, Mass and Elite Sport	1
On the Kicking Techniques of Pankration	1
‘In Case of Dispute, the French Text is to be Used’: A History of the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR), 1904–1922	1
The Olympic Oath and so Much More: A Biographical Interpretive Analysis of the Life of Victor Boin, 1886–1974	1
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries	1
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital	1
Sport in the Service of Propaganda: Social and Political Conditions of Sport in Rural Poland, 1945–1956	1
‘It’s a Policy Matter, Not a Racial Matter’: Athlete Activism and Symbiotic Struggles against Apartheid in US Track and Field of the Early 1970s	1
Willy Richard Frantz Seewald (1900–1929): The Brazilian Sportsman in the 1924 Olympic Games	1
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps	1
A Historical Review of Elite Sport Development in Hong Kong	1
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio	1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 1927	1
A Historical Narrative of High School Athletics Amongst ‘Coloured’ Communities in Cape Town, South Africa, with Special Reference to the Western Province Senior Schools Sports Union, 1956-1972	1
Making Refereeing Global? How FIFA’s International Courses for Referees Helped Lay the Groundwork for Football’s Commercialization, 1948–1976	1
Gearing Up: Materials and Technology in the History of Sport	1
Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey’s Agents of Change	1
Analysis of the Cancellation of the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in Taiwan	1
The Political and Social Determinants of Football Hooliganism in Central Europe in the Interwar Period	1

Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay	1
Louis Faure-Dujarric, a French Sports Architect in the Interwar Period	1
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa	1
Transnational Surfistas and the Development of Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast	1
A Contested Victory: Liberal Reformism and Women’s Physical Culture in Colombia, 1930–1946	1
‘Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–1990	1
Reading Le Jingyi’s Back: The Creation and Construction of the Sino-Steroid Spectre in the Western Media in the Post–Cold War Era	1
Sumiyuki Kotani, the Kodokan Emissary to Brazil	1
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)	1
Sustainable Local Operation of Chin Woo Athletic Association in Singapore and Malaysia	1
The Origin and Significance of the Korean Boy Scout Movement during the Japanese Occupation	1
Sports Facility Development and Politics in Budapest since 1945	1
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England	1
The Sporting Battalion Athletes in the Defence of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War ¹	1
Introduction	1
‘In the Interest of Reporting the Facts, and Not the Fiction, of South African Sport’: Race, Netball, and the Struggle for Social Justice in South Africa	1
1932 Olympic Games: The Participation of a Unique Brazilian Athlete	1
Turning Gymnasts into Citizen-Soldiers: The Militarization of Physical Activities during the Third Republic in France (1870–1940)	1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee	1
Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900–1949	1
Sport and Social Difference in Vienna around 1900: On the Historical Significance of Otto Herschmann	1
Sports Press as a Soft Power Tool in the Polish-German Border Plebiscite of 1921	1