OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 2. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	32
Homo- and transnegativity in sport in Europe: Experiences of LGBT+ individuals in various sport settings	30
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia	23
Extreme weight control behaviors among adolescent athletes: Links with weight-related maltreatment from parents and coaches and sport ethic norms	22
Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines	22
‘Who unlocked the kitchen?’: Online misogyny, YouTube comments and women's professional street skateboarding	21
Gay male athletes’ coming-out stories on Outsports.com	19
Walking the line? An investigation into elite athletes’ sport-related use of painkillers and their willingness to use analgesics to train or compete when injured	18
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics	13
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	12
The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance: Views of representation and their implications for board composition	12
Fear of judgement and women's physical (in)activity experiences	12
Tokyo 2020 Olympics sustainability: An elusive concept or reality?	12
Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter	12
‘He may not be qualified in it, but I think he’s still got the knowledge’: Team-doctoring in combat sports	11
Title IX at 50: Legitimating state domination of women’s sport	11
Sport, gender, and national interest during the Olympics: A comparative analysis of media representations in Central and Eastern Europe	11
A new era? How the European ESPN covered the 2019 Women’s World Cup online	11
‘These are “our” sports’: Kabaddi and Kho-Kho women athletes from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan	11
The toxic doxa of “clean sport” and IOC’s and WADA’s quest for credibility	11
Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect	10
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation	10
Linking sports-related and socio-economic resources of retiring Olympic athletes to their subsequent vocational career	10
The grey zone between tactics and manipulation: The normalization of match-fixing in road cycling	10
Who leads The Last Dance?	9

Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™	9
Patriotism, competition, nationalism, and respect for the military in US sports: Public recognition of American institutionalized sports nationalism	9
Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study	9
The toponymy of sporting venues: A multinomial logistic regression analysis of football stadium names	9
(Not) being granted the right to belong—Amateur football clubs in Germany	8
Defining ‘woman': A governmentality analysis of how protective policies are created in elite women's sport	8
Contingent nationalism: The genesis of ultras’ nationalist discourse	8
‘We are the vocal minority’: The Safe Standing movement and breaking down the state in English football	8
U.S. Women's Sport Consumption and Self-Identified Fandom: An Exploration of Social Structural and Sociocultural Antecedents	8
Footballers’ citizenship during COVID-19: A case study of Premier League players’ community support	8
Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports	7
Odds-wise view: Whose ideas prevail in the global integrity campaigns against match-fixing?	7
Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running	7
Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis	7
Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers	7
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football	7
Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China: (Re)crafting contours of a metropolitan cityscape	7
‘Boys, when they do dance, they have to do football as well, for balance’: Young men’s construction of a sporting masculinity	7
Paddling with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Exploring the moving body in sport	7
Athletic naturalisation, nationality and nationalism – Naturalised players in Hong Kong’s representative (national) football team	6
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods	6
Waiting or Acting? The Gender Gap in International Football Success	6
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?	6
Challenges to the role of media in reporting sport corruption: Insights from reporters in Balkan countries	6
Examining the fabrics of match-fixing: The underground sport betting system	6
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital	6
Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes’ consent practices within combat sports	6
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England	6
Swimming as self-care – A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women	6
Athlete activism and the role of personal and professional positionality: The case of Naomi Osaka	6
“Do you find it normal to be so fat?” Weight stigma in obese gym users	6
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	5
‘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 journals	5
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals	5
Corruption in sports: Lessons from Montenegro	5
‘Do know harm’: Examining the intersecting capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through community sport and leisure programmes	5
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity	5
Sport, physical activity and social health in older adults. Caring with technology in the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men	5
Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport?	4
Aesthetic/affective norms of femininity: An obstacle to women’s performance of exercise	4
Cosmopolitans and communitarians: A typology of football fans between national and European influences	4
Moving Away: Intra-National Migration Experiences of Brazilian Men Elite Futsal Players During Youth	4
If things go South: The renewed policy of sport mega events allocation and its implications for future research	4
Kicking off: Violence, honour, identity and masculinity in Argentinian football chants	4
Sexual minority prevalence and attitudes within the British horseracing industry	4
Racist Stacking in Professional Soccer in Germany	4
When ‘the show’ cannot go on: An investigation into sports mega-events and responses during the pandemic crisis	4
Beating the buzzer: The construction of ageing hockey masculinity	4
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	4

‘We’re all in this together’: Perspectives from within the Gulf Cooperation Council Women’s Games	4
‘All Avatars Aren't We’: Football and the experience of football-themed digital content during a global pandemic	4
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance	4
Stabbed, shot, left to die: Christy Martin and gender-based violence in boxing	4
Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit	4
When the gift is halfhearted: A socio-cultural study of ambivalence in a charity sport event	4
Granting the privilege to grunt: Reconceptualizing the perception of grunting in gyms	4
A rare dance	3
Social capital and health among participants in the cachibol league in Israel	3
How gender affects the newsworthiness of sports news on German TV: An application of the news-factors approach to understanding gender-biased sports news presentation	3
Television commentary on women's and men's Australian Rules football: A thematic analysis	3
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance	3
Brazilian School Games: A globalized model for school sports policy	3
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	3
Homophobia in Brazilian football: A critical discourse analysis of fans’ comments in online football forums	3
Youth athlete learning and the dynamics of social performance in Norwegian elite handball	3
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	3
Auditory and visual sensory modalities in the velodrome and the practice of becoming a track cyclist	3
The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)	3
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	3
Sensing inclusion among visually impaired and guide runners	3
The dancefloor is now open: A dispositional analysis of the glocalization and sportification of Chinese DanceSport	3
‘You can rent it for a while, but it is our house’: Sports fans’ experience of returning ‘home’ to a new multipurpose stadium	3
Antisemitism as a football specific problem? The situation of Jewish clubs in German amateur sport	3
Ticking the right boxes: A critical examination of the perceptions and attitudes towards the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) acronym in the UK	3
(Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport: A chain of legitimating and de-legitimating acts	3
‘A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman’: Feminisation in horse racing in Poland	3
Sport for Indigenous resurgence: Toward a critical settler-colonial reflection	3
Black male college athlete identity: A scoping review	3
Enhancing social inclusion in sport: Dynamics of action research in super-diverse contexts	2
‘I keep forgetting them’: Lacrosse, indigenous women and girls and reconciliation in Canada	2
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers	2
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup	2
Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves	2
An Eliasian analysis of students’ views on guidelines against sexual harassment and abuse in sport	2
Is sport's ‘gateway for inclusion’ on the latch for ethnic minorities? A discourse analysis of sport policy for inclusion and integration	2
Balancing risk-taking and self-care: The ecology of athlete health behaviour during the Olympic qualification phase	2
Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team	2
Reconsidering edgework theory: Practices, experiences, and structures	2
“Before I am biologically a male, I am me”: Exploring gender identity of South Korean male exotic polers	2
‘Let's face it, it's not a healthy sport’: Perceived health status and experience of injury among Polish professional mixed martial arts athletes	2
Who counts as a woman? A critical discourse analysis of petitions against the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport	2
‘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 England	2
Beyond stereotypes: Women and their engagement in football fandom	2
“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 Courses	2
Mondains and oblates. Body trajectories in high-level sport	2
From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	2
Content analysis of biological sex-specific media coverage of sport: The case of National Collegiate Athletic Association athletic department home webpages	2
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist	2
‘I was really, really shocked’: A sociological exploration of the transition experiences of English Youth Academy male footballers from school to work	2
The “Boys’ Club”, sexual harassment, and discriminatory resourcing: An exploration of the barriers faced by women sport officials in Australian basketball	2
Responder or promoter? investigating the role of nation-state in globalization: The case of China’s strategies in the global wushu movement	2
Performative nationalism in Polish football stadiums and fans’ views and attitudes: Evidence from quantitative research	2
Climate change versus winter sports; can athlete climate activism change the score?	2
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China	2
What’s in a game? A dialectic of competition and cooperation in Squid Game	2
The role of sport-based social networks in the management of long-term health conditions: Insights from the World Transplant Games	2
‘Refugee footballers’: A socioecological exploration of forced migrants in the Italian and German elite football system	2
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	2
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space	2
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities	2