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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity	25
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	22
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games	22
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey	19
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa	19
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games	19
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning	18
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures	18
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants	17
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance	15
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture	15
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games	13
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–2005	12
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media	12
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?	12
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study	11
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	11
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo	11
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization	11
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport	10
Whiteness in the production of televised football: Spanish sports journalists reflecting on race/ethnicity and diversity	10
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods	10
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa	10
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy	10
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows	10

What do we really know about fraud in sports? An exploratory study in Belgium	10
Leveraging Olympic champion athletes as a communication tool: a neuromarketing study	9
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood	9
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings	9
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China	9
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power	9
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking	9
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies	9
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship	9
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men	9
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda	9
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement	9
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media	9
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group	9
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland	8
Athlete participation in decision-making in elite sport: a scoping review	8
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure	8
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers	8
The concept of political neutrality – where we are at? ¹	8
Brand equity of football in India: an exploratory study to understand why millennials have a love hate relationship with Indian football	8
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports	8
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia	7
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse	7
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi	7
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions	7
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation	7
‘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
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement	6
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes	6
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis	6
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres	6
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review	6
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)	6
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Global sport in the post-COVID era	6
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia	6
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities	6
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History	6
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup	6
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20^th century	5
The crowd management failure at 2022 champions league final: inter-organisational analysis of a collective powerlessness	5
Sport-based social justice movements and activism: a narrative review	5
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	5
Neo-rituals under construction. How and what do the finals of the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores tell us?	5
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology	5
Hooligans, ultras, activists: Polish football fandom in sociological perspective	5
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey	5
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport	5
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports	5
Exposed bodies: hypersexualisation and prostitution in the scene of Brazilian female bodybuilding	5

Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment	5
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis	5
Women and volleyball in Leap : a study of female bodies from a semiotic perspective	5
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective	5
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan	5
Fiction or reality? What the movie une belle équipe shows about women’s football in the Hauts-de-France region	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
Lundy’s model and beyond: exploring a girl’s perspective on participation in voluntary sports organizations	5
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	5
The redefinition of a Chinese sports hero’s public image: evidence from the reactions on Chinese social media to Sun Yang’s international trial	5
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations	5
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign	5
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda	4
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture	4
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media	4
The metaverse and sport fandom: revolutionising sport consumption	4
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming	4
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics	4
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports	4
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories	4
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers	4
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan	4
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden	4
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media	4
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences	4
Correction	4
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis	4
Behind the support of esports in Hong Kong: a study on public perception	4
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs	4
Sport communication digital ecosystem development: Lega Basket Italia case study	4
Sport and parenthood	4
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes	4
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today	4
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling	4
‘And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University	4
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure	4
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava	4
The new politics of sport	3
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view	3
Stadiums of commercial and social control: overlapping rationalities within European football’s transformation	3
Beyond the Noise : the cultural (or subcultural) politics of Irish surf films	3
The powers that changed dutch kickboxing	3
Reflections on modern physical activity: how can Graeber’s ideas help us to reconceptualise it and increase the value of play?	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
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	3
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football	3
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific	3
Correction Notice	3
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones	3
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’	3
The nonwestern takeover of global sports: sportswashing or global power shift?	3
Empowerment & anxiety: social identity of Chinese women in combat sports	3
‘Basketball can be sold just like Coca-Cola’: an examination of the principle of amateurism in Israeli sport over time	3
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology	3
Reflexive meanings of global and local sports culture: Chinese female sports fandom in the context of glocalization	3
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing	3
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel	3
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events	3
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs	3
Correction	3
‘It’s always on’. Rituals and social structure within an international touch rugby team	3
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture	3
Reading Michelle Kwan: cultural meanings of her youthfulness and hyper-sexual/exotic transformation in the 1994–1996 seasons	3
Quid interpersonal violence in the sport integrity literature? A scoping review	3
Cooperation policies among public institutions for the development and dissemination of sports: a qualitative study	3
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review	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