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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Thinking outside the ‘box’: a discussion of sports fans, teams, and the environment in the context of COVID-19	55
Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters	46
The rise of E-Sports and potential for Post-COVID continued growth	44
Defining physical literacy: making sense of a promiscuous concept	28
The ‘how’ and ‘why’ of fitness app use: investigating user motivations to gain insights into the nexus of technology and fitness	20
The sports world in the era of COVID-19	19
‘He is like a Gazelle (when he runs)’ (re)constructing race and nation in match-day commentary at the men’s 2018 FIFA World Cup	18
The natural life cycle of sports fans	17
The social construction of integrity: a qualitative case study in Dutch Football	15
COVID-19 and the financial crisis in the sports sector around the world	13
The changing faces of fandom? Exploring emerging ‘online’ and ‘offline’ fandom spaces in the English Premier League	13
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies	13
Inclusionary and exclusionary banter: English club cricket, inclusive attitudes and male camaraderie	13
’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 Özil	12
Football (as) Guanxi: a relational analysis of actor reciprocity, state capitalism, and the Chinese football industry	12
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?	11
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 2032	11
Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality	11
eSports diplomacy: towards a sustainable ‘gold rush’	11
The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair	11
COVID-19 and the cancellation of the 2020 Two Oceans Marathon, Cape Town, South Africa	10
Stakeholders’ perceptions of athletic career pathways in Paralympic sport: from participation to excellence	10
The long-term implications of mega-event projects for urban public spaces	10
Signaling soft power through medal success: China as an example	10
The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games	10

COVID-19 and the cutting of college athletic teams	9
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects	9
Life skills from sport: the former elite athlete’s perception	9
Covid-19 and sport in the Asia Pacific region	9
The unstoppable rise of athlete power in the Olympic system	9
When women surf the world’s biggest waves: breaking gender barriers	8
Understanding parental support in elite sport: a phenomenological approach to exploring midget triple a hockey in the Canadian Maritimes	8
Exploring new trends of sport business: Japanese companies’ investment in ownership of foreign football clubs	8
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 attendance	8
Effects of an entrepreneurship sport workshop on perceived feasibility, perceived desiderability and entrepreneurial intentions: a pilot study in sports science students	8
Chinese football fandom and civic identities: a study of the fans of Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan	8
Why do sports fans support or oppose the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports? An empirical study of fairness and gender identity	8
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure	8
The community inclusion of athletes with intellectual disability: a transnational study of the impact of participating in Special Olympics	7
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions	7
Bullying in male physical education: a figurational sociological analysis	7
The ‘30-gold’ ambition and japan’s momentum for elite sport success: feasibility and policy changes	7
Impact of perceived value on behavior intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event	7
Black lives matter in the sports world	7
“The ‘blazer boys’ were getting all the chances”: South Asian men’s experiences of cricket coaching in England	7
Does size matter? Entrepreneurial orientation and performance in Spanish sports clubs	7
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick	6
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance	6
The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Norwegian athletes’ training habits and their use of digital technology for training and competition purposes	6
Sport CSR as a hidden marketing strategy? A study of Djarum, an Indonesian tobacco company	6
Sustaining market competitiveness of table tennis in China through the application of digital technology	6
Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers	6
’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 doping	6
Banal Europeanism? Europeanisation of football and the enhabitation of a Europeanised football fandom	6
Can international sports mega events be considered physical activity interventions? A systematic review and quality assessment of large-scale population studies	6
Influence of sports fan ethnocentrism on identification and media consumption intention: a preliminary investigation with Taiwanese baseball fans	6
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign	6
From inspiration to nostalgia: the football participation legacy of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan	6
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup	6
Residents’ perceptions of sporting events: a review of the literature	6
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives	6
The influence of macrocultural change on national governing bodies in British olympic sports	6
Football and cultural citizenship in China: a study in three embodiments	5
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football	5
Mapping the role of grassroots sport in public diplomacy	5
Increasing gender equity in sport organizations: assessing the impacts of a social learning initiative	5
Potemkin neoliberalism: developing Volgograd through the 2018 Men’s World Cup in Russia	5
Exploring Vietnamese sport for development through the capabilities approach: a descriptive analysis	5
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power	5
Sports entrepreneurs and the shaping of the SportsWorld	5
Football fans’ contestations over security: between offline and online fan spaces and channels	5
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games	5
The impact of gender quotas in sport management: the case of Spain	5
Forced migration and sport: an introduction	5

Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang	5
‘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	5
To trust or not to trust? Governance of multidimensional elite sport reality	5
From idyllic past-time to spectacle of accelerated intensity: televisual technologies in contemporary cricket	5
Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport	4
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review	4
“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
Gender inequity in media coverage and athletes’ welfare in Nigerian sports: impact of the Nigeria sports policy and African union agenda 2063	4
England’s summer of sport 2017	4
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa	4
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	4
Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: the gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions	4
Impact of perceived value on behaviour intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event	4
Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’: implications for the study of the relationship between national identity and sport	4
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 programme	4
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs	4
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport	4
Examining the relationship among service quality, perceived value, and sport consumption at the Wuhan tennis open	4
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	4
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch	4
Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance	4
Commercialization processes within Swedish child and youth sport – a Deleuzioguttarian perspective	4
Sporting Indianness: challenging the cinematic representation of Native American athletes	4
Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden	4
Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland	4
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics	4
Talent migration in NCAA division I tennis: an exploratory study	4
The LPGA’s global tour and domestic audience: factors influencing viewer’s intention to watch in the United States	4
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data	4
‘There is nothing else to do!’: the impact of football-based sport for development programs in under-resourced areas	4
Nurturing and sidelining capitalism in discourses of player potentiality in Finnish ice hockey	3
“The guys love it when chicks ask for help”: an exploration of female rugby league fans	3
Improving school sport: teacher-coach and athletic director perspectives and experiences	3
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy	3
Shame, pain and fame: sportswomen losing in Australia’s mainstream media reporting	3
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England	3
Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism	3
Credible and salient: examining frame resonance through Athlete Ally	3
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport	3
Enablers and barriers in ultra-running: a comparison of male and female ultra-runners	3
Examining attitudes towards homosexuality among young, athletic BME men in the UK	3
Scholar, gentleman and player: a tribute to Eric Dunning	3
Go with the flow – menstrual health experiences of athletes and coaches in Scottish swimming	3
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men	3
The Germans: no sports but only drills and exercises?	3
Esports: an exploration of the advancing esports landscape, actors and interorganisational relationships	3
Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing	3
Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s	3
Red-flagging the leagues: the U.S. Sports most in danger from match-fixing	3
Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity	3
Guerrilla patriotism and mnemonic wars: cursed soldiers as role models for football fans in Poland	3
Cricket has no boundaries with NatWest? The hyperreality of inclusion and diversity in English cricket	3
Black Lives Matter: perspectives from South African cricket	3
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap	3
An empirical use of organizational habitus and ethnography to explore how sport cultures are negotiated	3
Listening to the voices of teachers: primary physical education in Ireland	3
‘Why now’ for AFLW? Providing a new affirmative narrative for women’s football in the post-Covid world	3
Health and democratization as contradictory policy goals: sport in Zaragoza city	3
Should it be “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan”? A strategic relations analysis of name rectification referendum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games	3
Menstrual cycle, hormonal contraception and pregnancy in women’s football: perceptions of players, coaches and managers	3
In her own words: a refugee’s story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer	3
Engagement with Special Olympics by the general public in 17 countries world-wide	3
The co-development of inclusive tools in physical education for pupils with and without disabilities	3
Who cares about gladiators? An elite-sport-based concept of Sustainable Sport	3
A quest for relaxation? A figurational analysis of the transformation of yoga into a global leisure time phenomenon	3