Sport in Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Sport in Society 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID-19 and the financial crisis in the sports sector around the world23
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 203218
The social construction of integrity: a qualitative case study in Dutch Football17
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies16
’I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose’. Theorising on the deservedness of migrants in international football, using the case of Mesut Özil15
The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games14
The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair14
The changing faces of fandom? Exploring emerging ‘online’ and ‘offline’ fandom spaces in the English Premier League13
Virtual games meet physical playground: exploring and measuring motivations for live esports event attendance12
Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality12
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick11
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects11
When women surf the world’s biggest waves: breaking gender barriers11
Covid-19 and sport in the Asia Pacific region10
Why do sports fans support or oppose the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports? An empirical study of fairness and gender identity10
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?10
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure10
“Winning the women’s world cup”: gender, branding, and the Australia/New ZealandAs One 2023social media strategy for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™9
Menstrual cycle, hormonal contraception and pregnancy in women’s football: perceptions of players, coaches and managers9
Sustaining market competitiveness of table tennis in China through the application of digital technology9
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions9
Does size matter? Entrepreneurial orientation and performance in Spanish sports clubs9
Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland9
Black lives matter in the sports world8
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup8
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa8
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives8
The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Norwegian athletes’ training habits and their use of digital technology for training and competition purposes8
Enablers and barriers in ultra-running: a comparison of male and female ultra-runners7
Banal Europeanism? Europeanisation of football and the enhabitation of a Europeanised football fandom7
‘We are going to the right direction… but we are not in ideal world yet’: understanding gender (in)equality within leadership positions in Nordic football governance7
Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang7
Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: the gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions7
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities7
Can international sports mega events be considered physical activity interventions? A systematic review and quality assessment of large-scale population studies7
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football7
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men7
Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers7
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games7
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance7
Forced migration and sport: an introduction7
Residents’ perceptions of sporting events: a review of the literature7
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood7
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter6
Go with the flow – menstrual health experiences of athletes and coaches in Scottish swimming6
Increasing gender equity in sport organizations: assessing the impacts of a social learning initiative6
To trust or not to trust? Governance of multidimensional elite sport reality6
Local protests against the 2024 Olympic Games in European cities: the cases of the Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Paris 2024 bids6
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap6
Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden6
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics6
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign6
’I’m quite tired of people saying that I don’t do enough or know anything’: male hegemony and resistance in the context of women’s online communication on doping6
Football and cultural citizenship in China: a study in three embodiments6
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power6
Football fans’ contestations over security: between offline and online fan spaces and channels6
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England5
Guerrilla patriotismand mnemonic wars: cursed soldiers as role models for football fans in Poland5
Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’: implications for the study of the relationship between national identity and sport5
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel5
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport5
Expanding understanding of elite athlete parenthood in socio-cultural context: a meta-synthesis of qualitative media research findings on motherhood and sport5
Exploring Vietnamese sport for development through the capabilities approach: a descriptive analysis5
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs5
Should it be “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan”? A strategic relations analysis of name rectification referendum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games5
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport5
The positive impact of sports participation on life skills’ development: a qualitative study with medical students5
Count Me In: a sports participation intervention promoting inclusion for young people from migrant backgrounds in Australia5
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda5
The subject of Special Olympics – interrogating the inclusive potentials of a sport movement from an ableism-critical perspective4
Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport4
Esports: an exploration of the advancing esports landscape, actors and interorganisational relationships4
Examining the relationship among service quality, perceived value, and sport consumption at the Wuhan tennis open4
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data4
How can clubs play an essential role in talent identification and development programmes? A case study of German football4
Impact of perceived value on behaviour intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event4
Commercialization processes within Swedish child and youth sport – a Deleuzioguttarian perspective4
Destination development by sport event tourism (SET): a case study of Thailand4
Benefits and underlying mechanisms of organized sport participation on mental health among socially vulnerable boys. A qualitative study on parents’ perspective in the sport-based Icehearts programme4
Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century4
Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing4
Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity4
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch4
Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport4
Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance4
Transnational unities, challenges and opportunities for sport volunteering: lessons from the European PlayGreen project4
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review4
Sport legacy impact on ethnic minority groups: the case of London 20124
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea4
Sport and imperialism today: time for an(other) anti-imperialist front4
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum4
Everyday bordering. Theoretical perspectives on national ‘others’ in sport and leisure time physical activity4
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China3
An empirical use of organizational habitus and ethnography to explore how sport cultures are negotiated3
‘Girls on the field’ in Turkey: negotiating gender anxieties and norms through football3
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement3
Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s3
In her own words: a refugee’s story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer3
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football3
Towards more equal power relations in physical education: power, resistance and social transformation3
Dream team – team sports in a community of adults with intellectual disability3
Nation as a product of resistance: introducing post-foundational discourse analysis in research on ultras’ nationalism3
The new politics of sport3
How are fans teams’ consumption behaviors impacted by their federations’ innovativeness perceived organizational legitimacy3
‘Why now’ for AFLW? Providing a new affirmative narrative for women’s football in the post-Covid world3
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy3
Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism3
Credible and salient: examining frame resonance through Athlete Ally3
Cricket, Brexit and the Anglosphere3
What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming3
Intersections of nativism and football fandom in Zimbabwean online spaces3
Analysing British Asian national sporting affiliations post-London 20123
Fantasy sports participation and the (de)humanization of professional athletes3
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts3
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models3
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes3
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games3
“Kareem Hunt cut by the Chiefs for brutalizing woman on video”: online framings of racialized and gendered violence by a professional athlete3
Examining attitudes towards homosexuality among young, athletic BME men in the UK3
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia3
Exploring the somatic dimension for sport-based interventions: a refugee’s autoethnography2
’We too will have to wait a year’: The impacts of COVID-19 and the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games from Brazilian athletes and coaches’ perspectives2
Entrepreneurs’ perceptions of official sporting events’ capacity to promote their business in the long term2
Policing football-related violence in the Czech Republic: the football clubs’ quest for profit and security2
Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 20222
Political economy and football in new market: the case of the Chinese Super League2
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship2
‘I get headspace here… you forget everything when in open water’: motives for participation and perceived benefits derived from open water swimming: a rapid ethnographic study2
Researching women in sport development: an intersectional approach2
Running middle-class–marathon craze in transforming period of China2
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–20052
Racial diversity in skateboarding: destabilising whiteness, decentring heartlands2
The competent child and (in)competent others. Horse-riding school activities for preschool children2
Challenges in esports: interview study of professional gamers in India2
Volunteers’ collective memory of Youth Olympic Games: macro-level contextual understandings2
An analysis of Japan’s soft power strategies through the prism of sports mega-events2
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities2
Elegant violence: the promise and peril of a new ‘feminine’ sport ethic2
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view2
A war between football fans and the government from the perspective of Herbert Blumer’s collective behaviour theory2
Understanding the 2021 Australian Open through an Elias lens: a case of tension, conflict and athlete outsiders2
Digital media routine and audience engagement during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Hungary2
From the boardroom to tee: understanding golf club volunteers during an era of change2
Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander games and sports in Australia: new perspectives2
Uniting, disuniting and reuniting: towards a ‘United’ 20262
From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan2
The Covid-19 pandemic and Asian Football Confederation match officials2
The field includes the office: the six pillars of women in sport2
The target of digital hegemonic masculinity: male sports journalists on Twitter2
Adapting to a new normal: the impact of COVID-19 on the mediatization of professional sport organizations2
‘We need a whole range of different views’: exploring the lived experiences of women leaders in Australian rules football2
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology2
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective2
Quotas in South African cricket – what the players say2
Chance events and strategic competitive advantage in elite sport: crises and sport-specific chance events2
Gender, care, and sport: an attempt to understand the deficit of women among Norwegian elite-level coaches2
From the eyes of the beholders: the Shimshali sisters2
Football, faith and family for the Australian Pacific Island diaspora: the role of the vā (‘space between’) in rugby league2
Leisure and sport as a paradigm of suffering. An ethnography through ultra-endurance sport2
Impression management of South Korean sports stars through image-based social media2
Stadia of Sanctuary? Forced migration, flawed football consumers and refugee supporters clubs2
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University2
‘Women were just there to ruin his day’: the lived experiences of women golfers and leadership roles in regional Australia2
‘We sacrifice our bodies for this plank of wood’: girl skateboarders, risk, pain, and injury 12
Understanding Australian soccer: from origins, to ethnic tensions to globalization2
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review2
Stakeholders in venues of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games: a critical analysis2
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia2
Can women escape the male influence when surfing? An ethnographic study of female surfers in Southern Spain2
Cricket, terrorism and security in contemporary South Asia2
Restorative justice in sports: does restorative justice have a place in anti-doping governance?2
The impact of values based leadership on sport coaching2
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review2
How media influence is perceived by professional soccer players: a qualitative case study in Portugal1
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation1
‘Complaining’, ‘campaigning’, and everything in between: media coverage of pay equity in women’s tennis in 1973 and 20071
E-learning, sport and the sustainable development goals: mapping the field1
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup1
Illegitimately pursuing legitimacy: critical conversations of sport mega events hosting and bidding1
Long-term sport participation after the Olympic Games: from ‘inspirational feelings’ to ‘inspirational effects’1
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers1
Maidens and Man-kads: gendering cricket scholarship in the 21st century1
They are not ‘Team New Zealand’ or the ‘New Zealand’ Warriors! An exploration of pseudo-nationalism in New Zealand sporting franchises1
Sport-for-development: from UNESCO’s universal language to application. Case study of French NGOs1
Azerbaijan on the crossroad between Eastern and Western state building: the Baku 2015 European Games and the boundaries of Europe1
She is a Beijing girl: an examination of how Eileen Gu’s Chinese identity was constructed in Chinese media during the Beijing 2022 Olympics1
Perceived uniqueness of esports: players’ hyperconnected digital playground for self-improvement1
Country image and satire in sport management: analyzing America through sports inSouth Park1
‘Do full-grown men really play netball?’ Stigma and men’s experiences of playing for an elite London netball team1
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media1
Exploring fields of power in the English Premier League. A qualitative study into unhealthy sponsorships1
Lifting weights, raising voices: an analysis of reactions to Hidilyn Diaz’s views on the South China Sea issue after her Olympic gold medal win1
Sport, diplomacy, and regionalism in Southeast Asia: the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and ASEAN1
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’1
Motor racing and sports tourism in the interwar period: the case of the Romanian Royal Automobile Club1
Soccer, the Saarland, and statehood: win, loss, and cultural reunification in post-war Europe1
‘Smile more’: women’s experiences of sexism while working in sport from a socio-ecological perspective1
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis1
Quid interpersonal violence in the sport integrity literature? A scoping review1
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan1
Racing with the industry: an interview on motorsports, esports, livestreaming and the COVID-19 pandemic1
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking1
The Chinese and South-East Asian sports world in the 2020s1
Children with disability in competitive Little Athletics: a systems thinking approach to rules and law1
Football, Place and National Identity: Transferring Allegiance Football, Place and National Identity: Transferring Allegiance , by D. Storey. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Li1
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory1
Sport schools in Europe: a scoping study of research articles (1999–2022)1
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers1
Negotiating Newlands: contesting a Rugby heritage site in Cape Town, South Africa1
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group1
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games1
‘Just another world’: an interpretive biography of the cultural transition of two West African footballers in Germany1
Placing community at the heart of community sport development: introducing the community sport development framework (CSDF)1
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity1
‘Gold slaves’: unionism and football in Spain during the democratic transition 1
New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case1
The promotion of sporting opportunities for girls and young females and the implications for traditional female sports: a qualitative descriptive study1
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press1
Raise a fist, take a knee: the intersection of interscholastic sports and democratic education1
At the forefront of racial tolerance?: African-Americans and high school football in Iowa in the 1930s1
Sustaining the unsustainable: meaningful longevity and the doing of coaching1
Urban development, city planning, and hosting major events: the cases of Birmingham and Guangzhou1
Making it work—fitting parenthood into an elite sport career1
Sports experiences of elite athletes with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorders1
The iron cage of efficiency: analytics, basketball and the logic of modernity1
Consuming esports and trash talking: how do social norms and moderating attributes influence behaviour?1
Sport organizations and reconciliation in Australia1
Stories in photos: framing styles of women athlete images on Instagram1
Geoporn: spectacular reproduction in Olympic Rio de Janeiro1
Contextual factors in sport talent identification research1
‘No-one wants to be a Kardashian anymore’: female participation in recreational combat sport1
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games1
Reconciliation within the National Rugby League: where art and sport intersect1
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings1
Why sports? Sketching a typology of young people’s reasons for taking part in sports1
Fair play in sport: the Brazilian pedagogical construction of antidoping as a civilizing element1
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific1
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative1
Inside the ‘black box’ of a long-term sport-based youth development boxing academy in New Zealand1
Can overcoming issues of gender be an Olympic legacy (Commentary): a need for comprehensive change1
Public service broadcasting and gender equal coverage: reflections on research and practice in Ireland and Sweden1
A political-institutional history of the Stellenbosch University physical education department, 1936–19391
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro1
The global snooker market1
The intersectionality of the sports labour market and gender inequality in South Korea1
Leading and managing during COVID-19: empirical insights from the Norwegian women’s national handball team in a time of crisis1
Race, gender and MMA fandom – imagining Asian masculinities in the online forum of the UFC fan club1
Reading Michelle Kwan: cultural meanings of her youthfulness and hyper-sexual/exotic transformation in the 1994–1996 seasons1
From the Berlin Olympics marathon to a park in Seoul: Sohn Kee-Chung and the construction of sports heritage in South Korea1
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia1
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