International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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 2021-05-01 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
‘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
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens17
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity17
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men16
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England15
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
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
Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running14
‘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
“I can’t just post anything I want”: Self-management of South Korean sports stars on social media13
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches11
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming11
Book Review11
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment11
When ‘the show’ cannot go on: An investigation into sports mega-events and responses during the pandemic crisis10
“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
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes9
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
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
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
‘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
‘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
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
‘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
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
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