OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport in Society is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity	29
On the 8 th Day: A Catholic Theology of SportOn the 8 ^th Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport, by M. Hoven, J. J. Carney, & M. T. Engel. Cascade Books, 2022, Pbk: U	27
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey	27
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games	25
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures	23
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance	19
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture	18
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–2005	16
Exploring cross-cultural conceptual metaphors in Chinese and English table tennis news discourse	15
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa	15
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games	15
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?	14
The 2020 EventRights Mobility Project: investigating Atlanta’s compliance with FIFA’s human rights bidding requirement in planning and designing security and safety measures for the 2026 FIFA Men’s Wo	14
“What about the rest of me?”: a post-colonial and critical disability analysis of the Invictus Games docuserie s and its representation of war, injury, a	13
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media	13
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning	13
‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paula’: a netnographic exploration of Facebook user responses to the amended 2022 Women’s Australian Football League Collective Bargaining Agreement	13
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study	12
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants	12
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo	12
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games	12
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking	11
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows	11
What do we really know about fraud in sports? An exploratory study in Belgium	10
Whiteness in the production of televised football: Spanish sports journalists reflecting on race/ethnicity and diversity	10

Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization	9
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship	9
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa	9
Leveraging Olympic champion athletes as a communication tool: a neuromarketing study	9
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods	9
Dark undershorts and leaking body control: a critical review of the Wimbledon all-white dress code exception	9
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood	9
The concept of political neutrality – where we are at? ¹	8
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda	8
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure	8
Brand equity of football in India: an exploratory study to understand why millennials have a love hate relationship with Indian football	8
‘In any women’s sport …, it’s hard work because it’s a male dominated society’ – exploring forms of gendered media labour in relation to elite women’s cricket in England	8
Rising from irrelevance: the media framing of Brock Purdy’s rookie season in the NFL	8
Playing with the odds: negotiation of precarity through sevens in Sudani from Nigeria	7
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports	7
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China	7
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres	7
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse	7
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group	7
Athlete participation in decision-making in elite sport: a scoping review	7
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers	7
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement	7
Native tongue - Indigenous language revitalisation at the nexus of professional sport and culture: how Māori and Pacific sport stars are aiding endangered languages	7
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland	7
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings	7
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media	7
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation	7
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia	6
‘What should I do as a coach?’: an interview study with Swedish national team coaches about their professional practice and experiences in addressing potential health risks in elite sport	6
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes	6
Constitutive outsiders in and of sports: the case of transgender athletes	6
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History	6
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions	6
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia	6
Global sport in the post-COVID era	6
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment	6
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi	6
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities	6
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)	6
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis	6
The redefinition of a Chinese sports hero’s public image: evidence from the reactions on Chinese social media to Sun Yang’s international trial	6
The crowd management failure at 2022 champions league final: inter-organisational analysis of a collective powerlessness	5
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan	5
Queering bodies: subversive gender performance and embodied defiance through female bodybuilding in the digital public sphere	5
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis	5
Exposed bodies: hypersexualisation and prostitution in the scene of Brazilian female bodybuilding	5
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey	5
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports	5
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture	5

Fiction or reality? What the movie une belle équipe shows about women’s football in the Hauts-de-France region	5
Women and volleyball in Leap : a study of female bodies from a semiotic perspective	5
Lundy’s model and beyond: exploring a girl’s perspective on participation in voluntary sports organizations	5
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	5
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign	5
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories	5
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today	5
Sport-based social justice movements and activism: a narrative review	5
Under the postcolonial global sports order: the sportification, cultural re-creation, and shifting local identity of Miaoli Bombing dragons	5
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup	5
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	5
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology	5
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations	5
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan	5
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden	4
Sport communication digital ecosystem development: Lega Basket Italia case study	4
Correction	4
Outsiders, underdogs and bohemians in sport: an introduction	4
Behind the support of esports in Hong Kong: a study on public perception	4
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports	4
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava	4
The metaverse and sport fandom: revolutionising sport consumption	4
Eating’s cheating and the peculiarity of male professional road cycling	4
Sport and parenthood	4
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs	4
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes	4
Exploratory foray into the nexus between football and climate change in Africa	4
Nationalism, market logic, and cultural tradition: a labor politics analysis of media representations of Chinese female athletes in Olympic coverage	4
Being a Chinese while fighting against China: badminton and the nationalist identity construction of Malaysian Chinese	4
‘It’s crucial to have someone that recommends you’: female immigrants’ pathway into sports leadership in Sweden	3
Beyond the Noise : the cultural (or subcultural) politics of Irish surf films	3
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing	3
Quid interpersonal violence in the sport integrity literature? A scoping review	3
Correction Notice	3
The powers that changed dutch kickboxing	3
Stadiums of commercial and social control: overlapping rationalities within European football’s transformation	3
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences	3
Insiders, outsiders and allies: Inga Löwdin and the promotion of women’s international XC skiing, 1946–1960	3
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel	3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling	3
Sustaining the unsustainable: meaningful longevity and the doing of coaching	3
Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai	3
Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons	3
From chants to glitter: Thai sports fans as cultural producers in public space	3
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review	3
Cooperation policies among public institutions for the development and dissemination of sports: a qualitative study	3
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs	3
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology	3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis	3
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media	3
Even eagles struggle to fly: Matti Nykänen, Eddie the Eagle, and Jan Boklöv in the era of commercialisation, professionalisation, and mediatisation	3
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming	3
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific	3
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture	3
Reflexive meanings of global and local sports culture: Chinese female sports fandom in the context of glocalization	3
‘Basketball can be sold just like Coca-Cola’: an examination of the principle of amateurism in Israeli sport over time	3
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones	3
The nonwestern takeover of global sports: sportswashing or global power shift?	3
Correction	3
‘It’s always on’. Rituals and social structure within an international touch rugby team	3
The new politics of sport	3
‘And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University	3
Exploring youths’ perceptions of self and external initiatives for their football talent development in Tanzania	3
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda	3
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events	3
‘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 governance	3
Reflections on modern physical activity: how can Graeber’s ideas help us to reconceptualise it and increase the value of play?	3