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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist by Noelle K. Brigden BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Streng47
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs31
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?29
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities28
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer26
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens17
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity17
‘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-fives17
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men16
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport15
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria15
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport15
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England15
Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running14
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States14
“I can’t just post anything I want”: Self-management of South Korean sports stars on social media13
‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals13
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?13
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.13
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment11
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches11
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming11
Book Review11
When ‘the show’ cannot go on: An investigation into sports mega-events and responses during the pandemic crisis10
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes9
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball9
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective9
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents9
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups9
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators8
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights8
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?8
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer8
‘Who unlocked the kitchen?’: Online misogyny, YouTube comments and women's professional street skateboarding7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram7
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?7
Granting the privilege to grunt: Reconceptualizing the perception of grunting in gyms7
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals7
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist7
Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’7
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland7
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’7
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment7
Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines6
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia6
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction6
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market6
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships6
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion6
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport6
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava6
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity6
Book review5
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China5
Television commentary on women's and men's Australian Rules football: A thematic analysis5
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance5
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?5
Cosmopolitans and communitarians: A typology of football fans between national and European influences5
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics5
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club5
Book Review5
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance5
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion5
From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players5
‘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 athletes5
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination5
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians5
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji5
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run5
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union5
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space4
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust4
Digital selves: A cross-cultural examination of athlete social media self-presentation during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics4
‘If you haven't got the contacts … you have no choice’: A figurational examination of unpaid work in football scouting in men's professional football in England4
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League4
European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda4
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications4
Mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?4
Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes’ consent practices within combat sports4
“I thought we were useless”: K-skateboarding and socio-material pollution in Nanjido, Seoul4
(Not) being granted the right to belong—Amateur football clubs in Germany4
Patriotism, competition, nationalism, and respect for the military in US sports: Public recognition of American institutionalized sports nationalism4
Redefining masculinities through street workout: Dynamics of hybridity and aesthetic capital4
Coping within the interstices of the neoliberal sports market: Using de Certeau to analyse the migration of African mixed martial arts fighters in South Africa4
The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility4
“It becomes a fight against who I am, rather than what I say”: Gender, positionality, and inclusion in esports leadership4
Navigating the playing field: Reimagining the sports industry in the face of accelerated climate change4
Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences4
FIFA’s utopia: An analysis of FIFA’s football for hope movement3
Cohesion to life on the land of migration: Olympic education and refugees3
Erratum3
Drafting behind LGB: Transgender athletes in the sport of cycling3
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation3
From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality3
‘Refugee footballers’: A socioecological exploration of forced migrants in the Italian and German elite football system3
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football3
Moving Away: Intra-National Migration Experiences of Brazilian Men Elite Futsal Players During Youth3
Erratum to “The Beauty Builder: A Genealogical Analysis of the Production of Female Power and Knowledge in Artistic Swimming”3
Structuration theory investigation of elite Rugby players’ perceptions on how the transition from player to retired player impacted their significant others3
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting3
A quest for legitimacy? An exploratory study of the new meanings of sports and physical activity in contemporary Saudi Arabia3
Reconceptualising informality in sport participation: Towards understanding (in)formalisation of sport governance3
Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers2
‘I can’t believe I just made history’: A temporal analysis of sports media reporting2
Extreme weight control behaviors among adolescent athletes: Links with weight-related maltreatment from parents and coaches and sport ethic norms2
Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy2
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance2
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
Reflexivity of discomfort: Two women outsiders doing sport research in prison2
‘I’m not a warrior, I’m a basketball player’: A narrative on professional sport in troubled times2
Inclusive, inviting, inspiring: Insights into the experiences of women's football fans in Australia and Germany2
Antisemitism as a football specific problem? The situation of Jewish clubs in German amateur sport2
‘All Avatars Aren't We’: Football and the experience of football-themed digital content during a global pandemic2
Money talks: Analysing the PGA Tour-LIV Golf jurisdictional contest via Western media narratives2
Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism2
The ‘glow up imperative’: The fitness lifestyles of young women in Aotearoa New Zealand2
Book Review: Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs. Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use by Ask Vest Christiansen2
An Eliasian analysis of students’ views on guidelines against sexual harassment and abuse in sport2
Between lookism and bodily capital: Understanding female personal trainers’ appearance in occupational socialization2
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup2
The gendered bodies and working experience of fitness trainers2
Yoga practice through the prism of the quest for excitement: Emotional renewal and transcending the physical realities of the body2
“That's where you start to think like, does anyone actually listen to or watch women's sport?” Gender Regimes and Students Experiences on Higher Education Sport Courses2
Corruption in sports: Lessons from Montenegro2
“Do you find it normal to be so fat?” Weight stigma in obese gym users2
Clothes and caps: An exploration of the thing-power of objects and activism at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games2
Odds-wise view: Whose ideas prevail in the global integrity campaigns against match-fixing?2
Governing Olympic education: Technologies of policy announcements and outsourcing1
Corrigendum to From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality1
‘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 refereeing1
“We haven’t agreed on that, and you’ll never get people to agree on that.” Contestation within the Canadian sport coaching professional project1
Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support1
Auditory and visual sensory modalities in the velodrome and the practice of becoming a track cyclist1
A typological understanding of medical support in sport: What do we know and what’s next?1
Women's representation in surf video games: A stereotyped, objectified and romanticized portrayal1
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital1
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers1
Responder or promoter? investigating the role of nation-state in globalization: The case of China’s strategies in the global wushu movement1
‘Yes, I’m an Elite athlete and I’m Gay’: Experiences of elite gay male athletes in Spain1
Examining the socioemotional outcomes of social justice efforts on social media users: Evidence from the NFL's Inspire Change initiatives1
What forms of socialization lead women to stop cycling during adolescence?1
Beyond stereotypes: Women and their engagement in football fandom1
Dear England: A critical discourse analysis of how sports stars and politicians battle for legitimacy in debates around athlete activism1
From denunciation to therapy: Representing coach-athlete abuse in occidental cinema1
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods1
Corrigendum to “The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?”1
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran1
Is sport's ‘gateway for inclusion’ on the latch for ethnic minorities? A discourse analysis of sport policy for inclusion and integration1
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities1
A comparative analysis of the environmental sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016: A Capability Approach to inter-national inequality at the Olympic Games1
Care as a strategy to navigate political tensions within the China–Norway sports coaching collaboration1
Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport?1
‘Let's face it, it's not a healthy sport’: Perceived health status and experience of injury among Polish professional mixed martial arts athletes1
Homophobia in Brazilian football: A critical discourse analysis of fans’ comments in online football forums1
Enclaved non-heteronormativity and pragmatic acceptance. The experiences of Polish female football players1
New Zealand's princess of the pool: Post-ableism and the media narrativisation of Sophie Pascoe1
Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves1
Levelling the field? The English Football Association's promotion of their men's and women's national teams through Twitter1
Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team1
Defining ‘woman': A governmentality analysis of how protective policies are created in elite women's sport1
Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach1
The grey zone between tactics and manipulation: The normalization of match-fixing in road cycling1
Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit1
Family ties and social capital among grand slam tennis champions1
Swimming as self-care – A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women1
Children's views on women in sport: Locating feminist narratives1
Is gender equality in brain damage ‘progress’ for women and sport?1
Bruised and confused: An autoethnography of concussion in rugby union1
Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding: Generating theory and method for use beyond the board1
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