Sport in Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Sport in Society is 2. 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
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games28
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory26
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity16
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity16
Running, Identity and Meaning: The Pursuit of Distinction through Sport16
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games15
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: U15
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa15
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey15
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games15
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games14
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro13
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning13
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance12
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture11
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures11
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants11
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo10
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media10
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?10
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–200510
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup9
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda9
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization9
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy9
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking9
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies9
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood9
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement8
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa8
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods8
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows8
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study8
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport8
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship8
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts8
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men7
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers7
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China7
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media7
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power7
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group7
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland7
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports7
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings7
The Chinese and South-East Asian sports world in the 2020s6
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse6
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres6
Can women escape the male influence when surfing? An ethnographic study of female surfers in Southern Spain6
Global sport in the post-COVID era6
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review6
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi6
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia6
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions6
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities6
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation6
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure6
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia6
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement6
‘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 sport6
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes5
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment5
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup5
The redefinition of a Chinese sports hero’s public image: evidence from the reactions on Chinese social media to Sun Yang’s international trial5
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History5
Communities in movement: football and basketball in transcultural spaces5
Neo-rituals under construction. How and what do the finals of the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores tell us?5
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand5
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)5
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick4
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities4
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology4
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey4
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan4
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign4
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis4
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter4
Hooligans, ultras, activists: Polish football fandom in sociological perspective4
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations4
Local protests against the 2024 Olympic Games in European cities: the cases of the Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Paris 2024 bids4
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?4
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance4
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis4
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport4
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports4
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports3
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today3
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden3
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava3
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure3
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 20323
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers3
Women and Sport in Asia3
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan3
Sport and parenthood3
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes3
An explanatory model of the influence of consumer exposure to sport sponsoring event3
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda3
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes3
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20th century3
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective3
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games3
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs3
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis3
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling3
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories3
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games3
‘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 governance2
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia2
Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons2
Policing football-related violence in the Czech Republic: the football clubs’ quest for profit and security2
‘It’s always on’. Rituals and social structure within an international touch rugby team2
Making compromises without a hurting stalemate, the change of the emblem of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games2
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view2
Skateboarding and contested public space in Portrush, Northern Ireland: exploring tensions between resortification and DIY space-claiming through co-creative methodology2
Correction Notice2
Towards more equal power relations in physical education: power, resistance and social transformation2
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones2
Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport2
‘Women were just there to ruin his day’: the lived experiences of women golfers and leadership roles in regional Australia2
‘Gold slaves’: unionism and football in Spain during the democratic transition 2
Centre of the house: youthful dominance and the creation of curling’s age order2
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media2
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics2
Quid interpersonal violence in the sport integrity literature? A scoping review2
Purposeful and unintentional: Chinese adolescent golfers in the intergenerational transmission and feedback of cultural capital2
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events2
Aikido’s self-regulation and co-regulation: a promising embodied pedagogy for intercultural communication training2
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology2
The hegemonic impact of the NHL and the ‘Americanization’ of Swedish ice hockey and resistance: Rögle BK as ‘hockey culture’2
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia2
Sport and Quality of Life – Practices, Habits and Lifestyles Sport and Quality of Life – Practices, Habits and Lifestyles , by P.Corvo & F. M.Lo Verde (eds). Cham, S2
Reflexive meanings of global and local sports culture: Chinese female sports fandom in the context of glocalization2
Understanding the authenticity of surf tourism: evidence from Chinese tourists2
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’2
More than just religion ’: a case study of the psychological preparation of an African American division I female golfer at a HBCU2
‘Basketball can be sold just like Coca-Cola’: an examination of the principle of amateurism in Israeli sport over time2
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs2
Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai 2
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific2
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects2
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming2
Beyond the Noise : the cultural (or subcultural) politics of Irish surf films2
Sustaining the unsustainable: meaningful longevity and the doing of coaching2
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing2
Volunteers’ collective memory of Youth Olympic Games: macro-level contextual understandings2
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel2
Bondi Days: An Obituary Bondi Days: An Obituary , by Monty Webber. Angourie, New South Wales: Monty Webber, 2022, Pbk: US$11.25, ISBN: 979-883-63-1456-92
The powers that changed dutch kickboxing2
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 programme2
Cooperation policies among public institutions for the development and dissemination of sports: a qualitative study2
Correction2
Modernising sport governance amid cultural constraints: a case study from Ireland2
Coaching by doing: communities of practice at Swedish sport schools in XC skiing since the 1970s2
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review2
Reading Michelle Kwan: cultural meanings of her youthfulness and hyper-sexual/exotic transformation in the 1994–1996 seasons2
Reflections on modern physical activity: how can Graeber’s ideas help us to reconceptualise it and increase the value of play?2
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football2
From English to Polish Disease. Conceptualising hooligans’ setup fights and their diffusion across Europe2
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University2
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture2
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences2
The new politics of sport2
Transnational unities, challenges and opportunities for sport volunteering: lessons from the European PlayGreen project2
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