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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thinking outside the ‘box’: a discussion of sports fans, teams, and the environment in the context of COVID-1955
Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters45
The rise of E-Sports and potential for Post-COVID continued growth43
Defining physical literacy: making sense of a promiscuous concept28
The ‘how’ and ‘why’ of fitness app use: investigating user motivations to gain insights into the nexus of technology and fitness20
The sports world in the era of COVID-1919
The natural life cycle of sports fans17
‘He is like a Gazelle (when he runs)’ (re)constructing race and nation in match-day commentary at the men’s 2018 FIFA World Cup16
The social construction of integrity: a qualitative case study in Dutch Football15
COVID-19 and the financial crisis in the sports sector around the world13
The changing faces of fandom? Exploring emerging ‘online’ and ‘offline’ fandom spaces in the English Premier League12
Football (as) Guanxi: a relational analysis of actor reciprocity, state capitalism, and the Chinese football industry12
Inclusionary and exclusionary banter: English club cricket, inclusive attitudes and male camaraderie12
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies12
eSports diplomacy: towards a sustainable ‘gold rush’11
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?11
The formation of heroes and the myth of national identity11
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 203211
COVID-19 and the cancellation of the 2020 Two Oceans Marathon, Cape Town, South Africa10
The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games10
Signaling soft power through medal success: China as an example10
The long-term implications of mega-event projects for urban public spaces10
Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality10
The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair10
’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 Özil10
Stakeholders’ perceptions of athletic career pathways in Paralympic sport: from participation to excellence10
Covid-19 and sport in the Asia Pacific region9
It’s not all about money: the code of brotherhood has a role to play in match-fixing9
COVID-19 and the cutting of college athletic teams9
Chinese football fandom and civic identities: a study of the fans of Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan8
Understanding parental support in elite sport: a phenomenological approach to exploring midget triple a hockey in the Canadian Maritimes8
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?8
Virtual games meet physical playground: exploring and measuring motivations for live esports event attendance8
Life skills from sport: the former elite athlete’s perception8
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects8
Why do sports fans support or oppose the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports? An empirical study of fairness and gender identity8
Exploring new trends of sport business: Japanese companies’ investment in ownership of foreign football clubs8
“The ‘blazer boys’ were getting all the chances”: South Asian men’s experiences of cricket coaching in England7
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions7
Does size matter? Entrepreneurial orientation and performance in Spanish sports clubs7
Black lives matter in the sports world7
The unstoppable rise of athlete power in the Olympic system7
Impact of perceived value on behavior intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event7
When women surf the world’s biggest waves: breaking gender barriers7
Effects of an entrepreneurship sport workshop on perceived feasibility, perceived desiderability and entrepreneurial intentions: a pilot study in sports science students7
The ‘30-gold’ ambition and japan’s momentum for elite sport success: feasibility and policy changes7
Bullying in male physical education: a figurational sociological analysis7
The community inclusion of athletes with intellectual disability: a transnational study of the impact of participating in Special Olympics7
’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
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance6
Residents’ perceptions of sporting events: a review of the literature6
Sustaining market competitiveness of table tennis in China through the application of digital technology6
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign6
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup6
Seen but not heard: missing the mark in conceptualizing high performance officiating6
Influence of sports fan ethnocentrism on identification and media consumption intention: a preliminary investigation with Taiwanese baseball fans6
The influence of macrocultural change on national governing bodies in British olympic sports6
From inspiration to nostalgia: the football participation legacy of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan6
The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Norwegian athletes’ training habits and their use of digital technology for training and competition purposes6
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives6
Sport CSR as a hidden marketing strategy? A study of Djarum, an Indonesian tobacco company6
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure6
The impact of gender quotas in sport management: the case of Spain5
Can international sports mega events be considered physical activity interventions? A systematic review and quality assessment of large-scale population studies5
Sports entrepreneurs and the shaping of the SportsWorld5
Football fans’ contestations over security: between offline and online fan spaces and channels5
From idyllic past-time to spectacle of accelerated intensity: televisual technologies in contemporary cricket5
Football and cultural citizenship in China: a study in three embodiments5
Forced migration and sport: an introduction5
Mapping the role of grassroots sport in public diplomacy5
Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers5
The impact of political pressures on sport and athletes in Montenegro5
Potemkin neoliberalism: developing Volgograd through the 2018 Men’s World Cup in Russia5
Exploring Vietnamese sport for development through the capabilities approach: a descriptive analysis5
‘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 governance5
Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang5
Banal Europeanism? Europeanisation of football and the enhabitation of a Europeanised football fandom5
England’s summer of sport 20174
Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance4
How Phil Knight made Nike a leader in the sport industry: examining the success factors4
Commercialization processes within Swedish child and youth sport – a Deleuzioguttarian perspective4
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics4
Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport4
Examining the relationship among service quality, perceived value, and sport consumption at the Wuhan tennis open4
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football4
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power4
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa4
Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: the gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions4
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick4
Impact of perceived value on behaviour intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event4
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities4
A bittersweet welcome: attitudes of Polish ultra-fans toward female fans entering football stadiums4
Increasing gender equity in sport organizations: assessing the impacts of a social learning initiative4
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review4
To trust or not to trust? Governance of multidimensional elite sport reality4
Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden4
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data4
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter4
The LPGA’s global tour and domestic audience: factors influencing viewer’s intention to watch in the United States4
‘There is nothing else to do!’: the impact of football-based sport for development programs in under-resourced areas4
Breaking bad: how crisis communication, dissemination channel and prevalence influence the public perception of doping cases4
Sporting Indianness: challenging the cinematic representation of Native American athletes4
Gender inequity in media coverage and athletes’ welfare in Nigerian sports: impact of the Nigeria sports policy and African union agenda 20634
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
Talent migration in NCAA division I tennis: an exploratory study4
“Winning the women’s world cup”: gender, branding, and the Australia/New Zealand As One 2023 social media strategy for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™4
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch4
Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism3
Credible and salient: examining frame resonance through Athlete Ally3
The co-development of inclusive tools in physical education for pupils with and without disabilities3
Who cares about gladiators? An elite-sport-based concept of Sustainable Sport3
A quest for relaxation? A figurational analysis of the transformation of yoga into a global leisure time phenomenon3
Nurturing and sidelining capitalism in discourses of player potentiality in Finnish ice hockey3
“The guys love it when chicks ask for help”: an exploration of female rugby league fans3
The Germans: no sports but only drills and exercises?3
Should it be “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan”? A strategic relations analysis of name rectification referendum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games3
Being, having and belonging: values and ways of engaging in sport3
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport3
Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity3
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games3
In her own words: a refugee’s story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer3
Enablers and barriers in ultra-running: a comparison of male and female ultra-runners3
Examining attitudes towards homosexuality among young, athletic BME men in the UK3
Scholar, gentleman and player: a tribute to Eric Dunning3
Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’: implications for the study of the relationship between national identity and sport3
Listening to the voices of teachers: primary physical education in Ireland3
Health and democratization as contradictory policy goals: sport in Zaragoza city3
Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing3
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England3
Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland3
Red-flagging the leagues: the U.S. Sports most in danger from match-fixing3
Guerrilla patriotism and mnemonic wars: cursed soldiers as role models for football fans in Poland3
Engagement with Special Olympics by the general public in 17 countries world-wide3
Cricket has no boundaries with NatWest? The hyperreality of inclusion and diversity in English cricket3
Black Lives Matter: perspectives from South African cricket3
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap3
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men3
Improving school sport: teacher-coach and athletic director perspectives and experiences3
Shame, pain and fame: sportswomen losing in Australia’s mainstream media reporting3
Gender social change, international influence and sensemaking in the launch and evolution of the Mexican professional women’s football league3
Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s3
Transnational unities, challenges and opportunities for sport volunteering: lessons from the European PlayGreen project2
The competent child and (in)competent others. Horse-riding school activities for preschool children2
The positive impact of sports participation on life skills’ development: a qualitative study with medical students2
Sport legacy impact on ethnic minority groups: the case of London 20122
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes2
‘Masters of your fate and the captains of your soul’: media representations of the 2018 Invictus Games2
Exploring the somatic dimension for sport-based interventions: a refugee’s autoethnography2
Adapting to a new normal: the impact of COVID-19 on the mediatization of professional sport organizations2
Shifting dominant logics? The organisational field of Finnish sport clubs in the 2010s2
Restorative justice in sports: does restorative justice have a place in anti-doping governance?2
‘Why now’ for AFLW? Providing a new affirmative narrative for women’s football in the post-Covid world2
Understanding the 2021 Australian Open through an Elias lens: a case of tension, conflict and athlete outsiders2
Sports scholarships in Ireland: a review of the issues2
Uniting, disuniting and reuniting: towards a ‘United’ 20262
A mixed approach to investigating public acceptance of elite sport policy in Taiwan: antecedents and prediction2
From the boardroom to tee: understanding golf club volunteers during an era of change2
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport2
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models2
Roman Abramovich and his principles of management2
‘We need a whole range of different views’: exploring the lived experiences of women leaders in Australian rules football2
The international journalistic coverage of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games: analysis by media framing2
The spectacularization of violence in contemporary US bare-knuckle fighting2
Cricket, terrorism and security in contemporary South Asia2
Everyday bordering. Theoretical perspectives on national ‘others’ in sport and leisure time physical activity2
The development of cricket in China2
Stakeholders in venues of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games: a critical analysis2
Count Me In: a sports participation intervention promoting inclusion for young people from migrant backgrounds in Australia2
Nation as a product of resistance: introducing post-foundational discourse analysis in research on ultras’ nationalism2
How are fans teams’ consumption behaviors impacted by their federations’ innovativeness perceived organizational legitimacy2
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia2
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement2
Esports: an exploration of the advancing esports landscape, actors and interorganisational relationships2
Go with the flow – menstrual health experiences of athletes and coaches in Scottish swimming2
‘Girls on the field’ in Turkey: negotiating gender anxieties and norms through football2
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs2
Paralympic assemblages globalizing International Relations: an autoethnographic account of global politics at the Paralympic Games2
A war between football fans and the government from the perspective of Herbert Blumer’s collective behaviour theory2
The Covid-19 pandemic and Asian Football Confederation match officials2
Marketing professional clubs to a foreign market: the brand image of Real Madrid and its impact on behavior intentions from a Chinese perspective2
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games2
Cricket, Brexit and the Anglosphere2
An empirical use of organizational habitus and ethnography to explore how sport cultures are negotiated2
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football2
International sports events and national identity: the opening ceremony of the Taipei Universiade2
Analysing British Asian national sporting affiliations post-London 20122
The subject of Special Olympics – interrogating the inclusive potentials of a sport movement from an ableism-critical perspective2
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view2
The impact of values based leadership on sport coaching2
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy2
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts2
Making sense of ‘Ireland’, sport and identity: the craft of doing sociology2
Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 20222
Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century2
Bigger than ourselves: the Southgate narrative and the search for a sense of common purpose2
Menstrual cycle, hormonal contraception and pregnancy in women’s football: perceptions of players, coaches and managers2
‘(Simply) the best’, or remembering when tina turner met the winfield cup: Nostalgia and the construction of authenticity in rugby league online spaces2
Study of football social responsibility in Iran with Fuzzy cognitive mapping approach2
Modifying walking football for people living with dementia: lessons for best practice1
At the forefront of racial tolerance?: African-Americans and high school football in Iowa in the 1930s1
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective1
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings1
Decolonising the South African sport science curriculum1
Inside the ‘black box’ of a long-term sport-based youth development boxing academy in New Zealand1
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory1
A political-institutional history of the Stellenbosch University physical education department, 1936–19391
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum1
Fantasy sports participation and the (de)humanization of professional athletes1
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro1
‘We sacrifice our bodies for this plank of wood’: girl skateboarders, risk, pain, and injury 11
Sports experiences of elite athletes with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorders1
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda1
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers1
How women’s tennis club participants construct identity: ‘respect, pride and distinction’1
Crime and misconduct in sport1
Impression management of South Korean sports stars through image-based social media1
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press1
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel1
How can clubs play an essential role in talent identification and development programmes? A case study of German football1
Engaging with wheelchair basketball: analyzing viewer attitudes and actions toward ‘the rebound: a wheelchair basketball documentary’1
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity1
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China1
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia1
‘Gold slaves’: unionism and football in Spain during the democratic transition 1
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative1
The social world of elite youth football in Germany – crisis, reinvention, optimization strategies, and the role of schools1
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games1
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University1
Country image and satire in sport management: analyzing America through sports in South Park1
Entrepreneurs’ perceptions of official sporting events’ capacity to promote their business in the long term1
How media influence is perceived by professional soccer players: a qualitative case study in Portugal1
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood1
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea1
The white moderate, sport and black lives matter: echoes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “letter from birmingham jail” at the University of Iowa1
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup1
Sport schools in Europe: a scoping study of research articles (1999–2022)1
Maidens and Man-kads: gendering cricket scholarship in the 21st century1
‘Sport and song go together …’ A personal reflection on the art of the sporting balladeer1
Calling the shots: organizational culture, performance, and the commoditization of ice hockey players1
Start-up success: the story of POINT 3 Basketball CEO Michael Luscher and the future of entrepreneurship1
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–20051
SWOT analysis on the potential growth of Football 5-a-side programme across the United States: an exploratory case study approach for athletes with visual impairment1
Music and sport: exploring the intersections1
Football, faith and family for the Australian Pacific Island diaspora: the role of the vā (‘space between’) in rugby league1
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review1
Stories in photos: framing styles of women athlete images on Instagram1
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media1
Soccer, the Saarland, and statehood: win, loss, and cultural reunification in post-war Europe1
Towards a safer past: thoughts on the invocation of English cricket’s soul1
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’1
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