OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs	55
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?	22
Book Review: Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist by Noelle K. Brigden BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Streng	19
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities	19
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport: Empirical findings of a qualitative mixed methods approach	18
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene	18
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	16
‘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-fives	16
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria	15
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	14
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media	14
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men	13
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England	13
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport	13
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer	13
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture	12
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport	11
Book Review	11
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States	11
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	11
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches	10
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment	10
‘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	10
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?	10
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents	9

‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective	9
Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond	9
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	9
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming	9
Necropolitical institutions and state-sanctioned violence: Critical discourse analysis of institutional response to a professional boxer's death in Quebec	8
"We are all Hersh": Grief, solidarity, and identity in a football fan community	8
Sculpting the ideal body: A narrative analysis of the body profile craze in South Korea using Honneth's pathologies of recognition	8
Book Review: Religions and Sports: The Basics by Terry D. Shoemaker ShoemakerTerry D., Religions and Sports: The Basics, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2024, pp. 181., £	8
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball	8
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer	8
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators	8
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	8
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups	8
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights	8
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?	8
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’	8
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	7
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals	7
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football	7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	7
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist	7
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity	6
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	6
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics	6
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava	6
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion	6
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity	6
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	6
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	6
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	6
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	6
From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players	5
‘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 athletes	5
Book Review	5
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	5
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance	5
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics	5
Sport for development: Working with youth or youth work? A commentary	5
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance	5
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination	5
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club	5
Book review	5
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion	5
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji	5
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China	5
Television commentary on women's and men's Australian Rules football: A thematic analysis	5
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians	5
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run	5
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms	5

Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities	5
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	5