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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image	21
Survival of Folk Sports–Related Cultural Heritage in China	13
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022	11
Olympic Charter Evolution Shaped by Urban Strategies and Stakeholder’s Governance: From Pierre de Coubertin to the Olympic Agenda 2020	11
The Diplomatic Turn: The New Relationship between Sport and Politics	10
Winter Olympic Referendums: Reasons for Opposition to the Games	8
‘A Strong, Sustainable Legacy:’ The Environment and Japan’s Winter Olympics	7
The Emergence of the Swedish Horse-Riding School from the Mid-Twentieth Century	6
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments	6
The Numbers Game: The NBA v. Motorola, Real-Time Statistics, and the Rise of Online Fantasy Sport	6
Promoting the Right to Education and Dual Careers of Athletes: Former Korean Dropout College Student-Athletes as Social Agents to Promote Critical Conflict Resolution	6
Sports Trans-Cultural Communication between China and Russia under the Belt and Road Initiative	6
Irregularities in Football. ‘Cooperativa’: A History of Match-Fixing in Romanian Football	6
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Inter-Asian Connections in South Korea	5
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes	5
The Inheritance and Dissemination of Wushu Culture in the Global Era	5
Tracing the Historical Contours of Black Muscular Christianity and American Sport	4
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States	4
A New Starting Point: The Factors That Made Taiwanese Professional Baseball Players Migrate to Mainland China After the 1997 Match-Fixing Scandal	3
Symbolic Power and Dual Careers of Athletes: Successful Career Transition Experiences of Korean College Athletes Who Quit Sport	3
‘The world will be watching and so will NSA!’: A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games	3
Because It Is There? Mount Everest, Masculinity, and the Body of George Mallory	3
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–1982	3
Planning for Legacy in the Post-War Era of the Olympic Winter Games	3
Sport, Ideology and Nation-Building in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China	3

Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee	3
Northeast Asian Modern Martial Arts: An Embodied Synthesis of Virtue Ethics and Deontology	3
Bread and Circuses, Olive Oil and Money: Commercialised Sport in Ancient Greece and Rome	3
Expert Analysis: The Reciprocal Relationship between Sports Gambling and Fantasy Football on Television	3
The Environmental Reimagining of Olympic Sarajevo	2
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-19	2
The History and Evolution of the Fantasy Sport Voice: An Oral Account of the Major Aspects Forming the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association	2
Walking through the Dark: FC Barcelona and the Forced Closure of 1925	2
The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 1924	2
Pakistan’s Participation at the Summer Olympic Games, 1948 to 2016: A Social Development Theory Approach	2
Olympic Winter Games, ‘Cold Sports’, and Inclusive Values	2
Manufacturing the Image of a Country through Sport: Granma’s Press Coverage of Cuba’s Performance from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the 2016 Rio Olympics	2
Sport Diplomacy and Survival: Republic of China Table Tennis Coaches in Latin America during the Cold War	2
The Introduction of Western Sports during the Opening of Macau and Its Developmental Implications	2
‘Cricket is Perfectly Suited to the Chinese People’: The Contemporary Development of Chinese Cricket	2
The Attempted Grobalization of Parkour by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique	2
The Lost Inner Beauty in Martial Arts: A Pencak Silat Case	2
Growing in Tandem with Media: Fantasy Sport, Media Use, and the Formation of an Industry Giant	2
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s	2
The Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on China and the Olympic Movement: The Legacy	2
‘This Is Not a Problem but an Issue’: Chinese-Born Table Tennis Players Representing Another Country at the Olympics, 1988–2020	2
Summer Meets Winter: African Nations Participating at the Winter Olympics, 1960–2018	2
Lost in the Vault?: Demonstration Sports at the Winter Olympics and How Digital Media Can Bring Them ‘Back to the Future’	2
The 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz: Tourism, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics	2
Netball in Zimbabwe: Towards a Social History	2
The Professional Body in Boxing and Strength Sports: The Connection between Manual Labour and Sports in the Early and Mid Twentieth-Century Sweden	2
The Olympic Oath and so Much More: A Biographical Interpretive Analysis of the Life of Victor Boin, 1886–1974	2
Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955–1959	2
The Early Globalization Process of Taekwondo, from the 1950s to 1971	2
Interaction between Olympism and Host Cities: The Example of Paris	2
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank	2
The Legacy of Sports Nationalism in South Korean Sport	2
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)	2
The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom	2
Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey	2
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values	2
Media Framing of Race and Football in Colonial Nigeria: 1914 to 1950s	2
Sports in the Transnational Public Sphere: Findings from the Case of Daryl Morey’s Hong Kong Tweet	2
Sport Policy in China (Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy)	2
Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy: Physical Education in Britain since 1800	1
Between ‘Battlecade’ and ‘UFC Redemption’: The Growth of Mixed Martial Arts in Canada 1996–2013	1
The Ambivalence of an Innovation: The Creation and Development of the European Cross Country Championships	1
Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era*	1
Visualising Sport: ‘Visual Turns’, Visual Texts, Visual Culture	1
Nadia și Securitatea [Nadia and the Securitate]	1
Netball Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago: Content Analysis of Press Coverage Related to the 1979 World Netball Tournament	1
Oral History and Sport Historians in China	1
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps	1
Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900–1949	1
Via Olympica: A Comprehensive View on the Origin and Development of Climbing Competitions	1

Sexuality and Eugenics in Female Gymnastics in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Uruguay	1
A Local History of Physical Culture in Uruguay: Horseracing and Football Outside Montevideo	1
Athletes in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945–1992	1
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development	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
White Gold: Snowmaking, Resort Growth, and Skier Experience in the U.S. East, 1945–1971	1
Stakeholder Engagement in Sport Policy Decision Making in Taiwan during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
The Beginnings of the International Ice Hockey Federation	1
Gearing Up: Materials and Technology in the History of Sport	1
Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte – An Overview of Its Publications (2008–2020)	1
Of Iron Men and the Beer: Democratization and Commercialization in the Triathlon History	1
Sports, the Cold War, and Anti-Communism in the Press: A History of the Brazilian Men’s Basketball World Championship Titles (1959 and 1963)	1
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball: An Overview	1
Sport or Spectacle? The Harlem Globetrotters’ 1955 Visit to Israel	1
Enforced Ostracism? Analysis of the International Sports Organizations’ Reactions to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	1
‘A Powerful Sporting Tradition among Canadian Basilians’: Early Twentieth-Century Catholic Priest-Coaches at St Michael’s College	1
Pseudo-Olympics in the Grand Duchy of Posen: The Forgotten Sports Heritage of Greater Poland	1
Exploring an Unmapped Physical Culture Landscape in Colonial South Africa	1
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha	1
A Critical Assessment of the Contribution of He Zhenliang to the Modern Olympic History of China	1
The Global Governance of the Modern Olympic Movement and China’s Responsibility Edited by Wang Runbin, Beijing: People’s Sports Publishing House of China, 2019, 230pp. Paperback ¥70	1
Separate Spheres and Separate Roles: Christian Beliefs, Medical Ideology, and Women’s Sport and Physical Activity in the Late 19^th and Early 20^th Century United States	1
The Imperial State of Iran, a Deal-Broker: Enabling the People’s Republic of China’s Asian Games Debut in the 1974 Tehran Asian Games	1
Empowering Indigenous Networks: Collaborative Governance and the Development of a Racial Vilification Code in the Australian Football League	1
Football, Propaganda and International Relations under Francoism: The 1960 and 1964 European Nations Cup and Their Impact on the International Press	1
A Historical Review of Elite Sport Development in Hong Kong	1
Sports and Youth Movements in Indochina during the First World War	1
1932 Olympic Games: The Participation of a Unique Brazilian Athlete	1
Training Female Bodies for New India: Women’s Physical Education between Global Trends and Local Politics in Colonial South Asia, c. 1900–1939	1
Olympic Games and Adventure Sports: The Inclusion of Surfing in the Tokyo 2020 edition	1
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)	1
The Sidesaddle: The Unlikely Emblem of Equestrian Empowerment	1
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader	1
Windsurfing’s Rapid Global Diffusion: The Evolution of a 1970s Technology-First Sport	1
Between Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization: Lifecycles of Sports Clubs in Israel	1
The North China Ice Games during the Period of the Republic of China	1
Strategic Role of Taiwanese Acrobatics in the Cultural Diplomacy of the Republic of China since the Cold War	1
The Rise of Cool Japan: The Representation of Japanese and American Athletes in Kuroko no Basuke: Extra Game	1
Canadian Government Involvement in Calgary’s Failed 1968 Winter Olympic Bid	1
Switzerland’s Century-Long Rise as the Hub of Global Sport Administration	1
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee	1
The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow	1
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries	1
C. Gärtner, the Olympic Circus, and the Origins of Equestrianism in the Grand Duchy of Posen	1
The Forthright Political Stance of Sport for Development in Korean Official Development Assistance	1
Enemy at the Gates: Soviet Sambo and the US Martial Arts Community, 1964–1980	1
La Chica Moderna and the Virile Sport of Boxing: Women Boxers, Gender Politics, and Identity Construction in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s	1
Olympic History and Legacy: New Research in Bidding for and Hosting the Olympic Winter Games	1
Hungarian Football Coaches in Latin America in the Interwar Period	1
From Stroke to Stoke: The Multiple Sporting Legacies of the Southern California Home Swimming Pool	1
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England	1
Evolution of Professional Football Management in the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 2016	1
‘That’s Jean Lowe’: On Being a Black Canadian Female Track Athlete in 1940s Toronto	1
What Factors Determine the Success or Failure of ‘Cross-Border’ Career Development of Chinese Retired Olympic Champions? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	1
Baseball in the Atacama Desert: From Elitist Sport to Popular Identity in Tocopilla, Chile (1915–1971)	1