OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology: The meaning, workings, and consequences of rational design efforts	42
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	28
Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes’ consent practices within combat sports	26
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals	26
Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study	25
The Paralympics on YouTube: Alternative content creation and the digital consumption of the Paralympics	16
Family first: The role of family in Māori and Pasifika professional athlete success	16
How has the media's construction of a discourse of nationalism evolved? Critical discourse analysis of Korean sports nationalism through the FIFA World Cup	15
#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 experiences	14
Sports and boycott: Attitudes among Jewish Israelis	14
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	14
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 & Beyond	13
Coping within the interstices of the neoliberal sports market: Using de Certeau to analyse the migration of African mixed martial arts fighters in South Africa	12
Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach	12
Sport, social inclusion and the logic of assimilation in Prato (Italy)	12
Sensing inclusion among visually impaired and guide runners	11
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust	11
A problem without a cause: Framing the agenda within sport for development organisations	11
Racialisation and the inequitable experiences of racialised minority coaches in men's professional football club youth academies in England	10
A typological understanding of medical support in sport: What do we know and what’s next?	10
South Korean members’ experiences on the LPGA Tour: The first decade after Se Ri Pak's appearance in 1998	9
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	9
Reconsidering edgework theory: Practices, experiences, and structures	9

The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs	9
Mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?	9
Footballers’ citizenship during COVID-19: A case study of Premier League players’ community support	8
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	8
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 integration	7
‘I was really, really shocked’: A sociological exploration of the transition experiences of English Youth Academy male footballers from school to work	7
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space	7
Paddling with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Exploring the moving body in sport	7
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?	7
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities	7
Family ties and social capital among grand slam tennis champions	7
It’s Just About Having Fun’? Interrogating the lived experiences of newcomers To Canada in introductory winter sport programmes	6
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities	6
‘He may not be qualified in it, but I think he’s still got the knowledge’: Team-doctoring in combat sports	6
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity	6
What forms of socialization lead women to stop cycling during adolescence?	6
Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter	6
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist	6
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	6
Black male college athlete identity: A scoping review	5
Trajectories and figurations: An analysis of sports elite in Lebanon	5
Entrenched maltreatment in sport: Unintended consequences of the mix of practices and narratives	5
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	5
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	5
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer	5
The accidentology of sport in France through the prism of the legitimacy theory: A first multilevel quantitative approach	5
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran	5
Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support	5
Women's transnational migration through football: Possibilities, responsibilities, and respectability in Ghana	5
A holistic framework of power to observe constraining and enabling manifestations and outcomes of power within international Sport for Development and Peace partnerships	5
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football	5
Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team	5
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	4
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	4
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men	4
‘A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman’: Feminisation in horse racing in Poland	4
Erratum	4
The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility	4
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	4
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	4
Navigating the double bind – gendered attitudes towards appearance-based exercise in Finland	4
‘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 refereeing	4
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion	4
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	4
The role of physiological testing for athlete development in sport: The elite athlete perspective	4
The Hundred: A sociological analysis of gender relations and the (semi-) professionalisation of women's cricket in England	4
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity	4
The political stance of Ibero-American national teams on social media towards Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup	4
Balancing risk-taking and self-care: The ecology of athlete health behaviour during the Olympic qualification phase	4
‘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	4

Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines	4
FIFA’s utopia: An analysis of FIFA’s football for hope movement	4