International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Papers
(The median citation count of International Review for the Sociology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology: The meaning, workings, and consequences of rational design efforts42
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram28
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals26
Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes’ consent practices within combat sports26
Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study25
Family first: The role of family in Māori and Pasifika professional athlete success16
The Paralympics on YouTube: Alternative content creation and the digital consumption of the Paralympics16
How has the media's construction of a discourse of nationalism evolved? Critical discourse analysis of Korean sports nationalism through the FIFA World Cup15
Sports and boycott: Attitudes among Jewish Israelis14
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’14
#Sportsball anti-fandom as identity performance on X: The case of Australian Football League Women's (AFLW)14
Fear of judgement and women's physical (in)activity experiences14
Book Review: Eric Dunning and the Sociology of Sport by Malcolm, D. and Waddington, I.13
Book review: NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo & Beyond13
Sport, social inclusion and the logic of assimilation in Prato (Italy)12
Coping within the interstices of the neoliberal sports market: Using de Certeau to analyse the migration of African mixed martial arts fighters in South Africa12
Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach12
A problem without a cause: Framing the agenda within sport for development organisations11
Sensing inclusion among visually impaired and guide runners11
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust11
A typological understanding of medical support in sport: What do we know and what’s next?10
Racialisation and the inequitable experiences of racialised minority coaches in men's professional football club youth academies in England10
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs9
Mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?9
South Korean members’ experiences on the LPGA Tour: The first decade after Se Ri Pak's appearance in 19989
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland9
Reconsidering edgework theory: Practices, experiences, and structures9
Footballers’ citizenship during COVID-19: A case study of Premier League players’ community support8
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships8
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities7
Family ties and social capital among grand slam tennis champions7
Observations on sport and eSport from a systems theory perspective: Theoretical reflections on differentiating sport and eSport and on the functions and consequences of an integration7
‘I was really, really shocked’: A sociological exploration of the transition experiences of English Youth Academy male footballers from school to work7
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space7
Paddling with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Exploring the moving body in sport7
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?7
Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter6
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist6
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?6
It’s Just About Having Fun’? Interrogating the lived experiences of newcomers To Canada in introductory winter sport programmes6
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities6
‘He may not be qualified in it, but I think he’s still got the knowledge’: Team-doctoring in combat sports6
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity6
What forms of socialization lead women to stop cycling during adolescence?6
Women's transnational migration through football: Possibilities, responsibilities, and respectability in Ghana5
A holistic framework of power to observe constraining and enabling manifestations and outcomes of power within international Sport for Development and Peace partnerships5
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football5
Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team5
Black male college athlete identity: A scoping review5
Trajectories and figurations: An analysis of sports elite in Lebanon5
Entrenched maltreatment in sport: Unintended consequences of the mix of practices and narratives5
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity5
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment5
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer5
The accidentology of sport in France through the prism of the legitimacy theory: A first multilevel quantitative approach5
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran5
Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support5
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity4
The political stance of Ibero-American national teams on social media towards Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup4
Balancing risk-taking and self-care: The ecology of athlete health behaviour during the Olympic qualification phase4
‘Every day we’d have an arranged activity, so she’d have football, swimming, dance, gymnastics’: A sociological analysis of parenting and sports-based enrichment activities for the under-fives4
Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines4
FIFA’s utopia: An analysis of FIFA’s football for hope movement4
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia4
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens4
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men4
‘A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman’: Feminisation in horse racing in Poland4
Erratum4
The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility4
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport4
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market4
Navigating the double bind – gendered attitudes towards appearance-based exercise in Finland4
‘I feel I must work harder and still be overlooked’ – How the implementation of video assistant referee (VAR) influences gendered recruitment and working conditions in elite football refereeing4
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion4
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting4
The role of physiological testing for athlete development in sport: The elite athlete perspective4
The Hundred: A sociological analysis of gender relations and the (semi-) professionalisation of women's cricket in England4
‘Refugee footballers’: A socioecological exploration of forced migrants in the Italian and German elite football system3
Book review3
Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit3
‘… The only way I'm gonna learn is if it's done properly’: Gendered embodiment and contradictions of ‘control’ in mixed-gender mixed martial arts3
Feminine negotiations and patriarchal bargains: Contradictory resistance in women's flat track roller derby3
Content analysis of biological sex-specific media coverage of sport: The case of National Collegiate Athletic Association athletic department home webpages3
Sport for Indigenous resurgence: Toward a critical settler-colonial reflection3
A quest for legitimacy? An exploratory study of the new meanings of sports and physical activity in contemporary Saudi Arabia3
Beating the buzzer: The construction of ageing hockey masculinity3
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination3
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria3
From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality3
Reconceptualising informality in sport participation: Towards understanding (in)formalisation of sport governance3
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital3
The framed and contested meanings of sport mega-event ‘legacies’: A case study of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games3
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction3
Women's representation in surf video games: A stereotyped, objectified and romanticized portrayal2
Is sport's ‘gateway for inclusion’ on the latch for ethnic minorities? A discourse analysis of sport policy for inclusion and integration2
Enclaved non-heteronormativity and pragmatic acceptance. The experiences of Polish female football players2
The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)2
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians2
Bruised and confused: An autoethnography of concussion in rugby union2
Materiality, mediation and affective encounters: ‘Rising Phoenix’ and the cultural representation of disability2
‘I have a small window of time left that I’m going to do it’: Transitions, risk and life-planning in the careers of mobile athletes2
Cohesion to life on the land of migration: Olympic education and refugees2
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport2
The role of subjective well-being in serious leisure and active aging: Evidence from older Chinese Tai Chi participants2
Sport, gender, and national interest during the Olympics: A comparative analysis of media representations in Central and Eastern Europe2
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States2
Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running2
A comparative analysis of the environmental sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016: A Capability Approach to inter-national inequality at the Olympic Games2
Youth athletes’ framing of nutritional supplements: Performance enhancement and food2
Book review: Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport by P Millward, JAL Ludvigsen and J Sly2
‘Do know harm’: Examining the intersecting capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through community sport and leisure programmes2
The grey zone between tactics and manipulation: The normalization of match-fixing in road cycling2
Corrigendum to “The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?”2
Drafting behind LGB: Transgender athletes in the sport of cycling2
Defining ‘woman': A governmentality analysis of how protective policies are created in elite women's sport2
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club2
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance2
“Do you find it normal to be so fat?” Weight stigma in obese gym users2
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation2
Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™2
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches1
Governing Olympic education: Technologies of policy announcements and outsourcing1
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics1
Using sport to promote the well-being among Latinx immigrants in the United States1
“We haven’t agreed on that, and you’ll never get people to agree on that.” Contestation within the Canadian sport coaching professional project1
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji1
Levelling the field? The English Football Association's promotion of their men's and women's national teams through Twitter1
Book Review: Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs. Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use by Ask Vest Christiansen1
Television commentary on women's and men's Australian Rules football: A thematic analysis1
Rights-based policies for role-bearing people: Are geo-cultural norms a hindrance to cultivating safer sport?1
Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy1
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia1
Grandmasters, distinct elite: Taste submitted to discussion from the social conditioning factors of the predilection for chess1
Moving Away: Intra-National Migration Experiences of Brazilian Men Elite Futsal Players During Youth1
Reflexivity of discomfort: Two women outsiders doing sport research in prison1
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?1
Momentum lost or creating new constellations? Insights from an exercise-at-work project during the COVID-19 pandemic – a mixed methods approach1
Book Review1
Clothes and caps: An exploration of the thing-power of objects and activism at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games1
What’s in a game? A dialectic of competition and cooperation in Squid Game1
From denunciation to therapy: Representing coach-athlete abuse in occidental cinema1
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion1
Counting women: Indicator culture and gender inclusion in sports leadership1
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming1
Book Review1
Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism1
Ticking the right boxes: A critical examination of the perceptions and attitudes towards the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) acronym in the UK1
Auditory and visual sensory modalities in the velodrome and the practice of becoming a track cyclist1
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?1
Waiting or Acting? The Gender Gap in International Football Success1
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance1
Money talks: Analysing the PGA Tour-LIV Golf jurisdictional contest via Western media narratives1
Risk profiles for self-medication with analgesics among elite German handball players1
Beyond stereotypes: Women and their engagement in football fandom1
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.1
Tokyo 2020 Olympics sustainability: An elusive concept or reality?1
Extreme weight control behaviors among adolescent athletes: Links with weight-related maltreatment from parents and coaches and sport ethic norms1
Racist Stacking in Professional Soccer in Germany1
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China1
The toponymy of sporting venues: A multinomial logistic regression analysis of football stadium names1
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run1
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport1
Mondains and oblates. Body trajectories in high-level sport1
Dear England: A critical discourse analysis of how sports stars and politicians battle for legitimacy in debates around athlete activism1
U.S. Women's Sport Consumption and Self-Identified Fandom: An Exploration of Social Structural and Sociocultural Antecedents1
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