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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and the financial crisis in the sports sector around the world	23
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 2032	18
The social construction of integrity: a qualitative case study in Dutch Football	17
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies	16
’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	15
The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games	14
The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair	14
The changing faces of fandom? Exploring emerging ‘online’ and ‘offline’ fandom spaces in the English Premier League	13
Virtual games meet physical playground: exploring and measuring motivations for live esports event attendance	12
Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality	12
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick	11
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects	11
When women surf the world’s biggest waves: breaking gender barriers	11
Why do sports fans support or oppose the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports? An empirical study of fairness and gender identity	10
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?	10
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure	10
Covid-19 and sport in the Asia Pacific region	10
Sustaining market competitiveness of table tennis in China through the application of digital technology	9
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions	9
Does size matter? Entrepreneurial orientation and performance in Spanish sports clubs	9
Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland	9
“Winning the women’s world cup”: gender, branding, and the Australia/New ZealandAs One 2023social media strategy for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™	9
Menstrual cycle, hormonal contraception and pregnancy in women’s football: perceptions of players, coaches and managers	9
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup	8
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa	8

Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives	8
The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Norwegian athletes’ training habits and their use of digital technology for training and competition purposes	8
Black lives matter in the sports world	8
Enablers and barriers in ultra-running: a comparison of male and female ultra-runners	7
Banal Europeanism? Europeanisation of football and the enhabitation of a Europeanised football fandom	7
‘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	7
Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang	7
Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: the gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions	7
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	7
Can international sports mega events be considered physical activity interventions? A systematic review and quality assessment of large-scale population studies	7
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football	7
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men	7
Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers	7
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games	7
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance	7
Forced migration and sport: an introduction	7
Residents’ perceptions of sporting events: a review of the literature	7
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood	7
To trust or not to trust? Governance of multidimensional elite sport reality	6
Local protests against the 2024 Olympic Games in European cities: the cases of the Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Paris 2024 bids	6
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap	6
Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden	6
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics	6
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign	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
Football and cultural citizenship in China: a study in three embodiments	6
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power	6
Football fans’ contestations over security: between offline and online fan spaces and channels	6
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	6
Go with the flow – menstrual health experiences of athletes and coaches in Scottish swimming	6
Increasing gender equity in sport organizations: assessing the impacts of a social learning initiative	6
Guerrilla patriotismand mnemonic wars: cursed soldiers as role models for football fans in Poland	5
Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’: implications for the study of the relationship between national identity and sport	5
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel	5
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport	5
Expanding understanding of elite athlete parenthood in socio-cultural context: a meta-synthesis of qualitative media research findings on motherhood and sport	5
Exploring Vietnamese sport for development through the capabilities approach: a descriptive analysis	5
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs	5
Should it be “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan”? A strategic relations analysis of name rectification referendum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games	5
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport	5
The positive impact of sports participation on life skills’ development: a qualitative study with medical students	5
Count Me In: a sports participation intervention promoting inclusion for young people from migrant backgrounds in Australia	5
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda	5
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England	5
Examining the relationship among service quality, perceived value, and sport consumption at the Wuhan tennis open	4
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data	4
How can clubs play an essential role in talent identification and development programmes? A case study of German football	4
Impact of perceived value on behaviour intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event	4
Commercialization processes within Swedish child and youth sport – a Deleuzioguttarian perspective	4
Destination development by sport event tourism (SET): a case study of Thailand	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
Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century	4
Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing	4
Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity	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
Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport	4
Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance	4
Transnational unities, challenges and opportunities for sport volunteering: lessons from the European PlayGreen project	4
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review	4
Sport legacy impact on ethnic minority groups: the case of London 2012	4
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea	4
Sport and imperialism today: time for an(other) anti-imperialist front	4
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum	4
Everyday bordering. Theoretical perspectives on national ‘others’ in sport and leisure time physical activity	4
The subject of Special Olympics – interrogating the inclusive potentials of a sport movement from an ableism-critical perspective	4
Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport	4
Esports: an exploration of the advancing esports landscape, actors and interorganisational relationships	4
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China	3
An empirical use of organizational habitus and ethnography to explore how sport cultures are negotiated	3
‘Girls on the field’ in Turkey: negotiating gender anxieties and norms through football	3
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement	3
Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s	3
In her own words: a refugee’s story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer	3
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football	3
Towards more equal power relations in physical education: power, resistance and social transformation	3
Dream team – team sports in a community of adults with intellectual disability	3
Nation as a product of resistance: introducing post-foundational discourse analysis in research on ultras’ nationalism	3
The new politics of sport	3
How are fans teams’ consumption behaviors impacted by their federations’ innovativeness perceived organizational legitimacy	3
‘Why now’ for AFLW? Providing a new affirmative narrative for women’s football in the post-Covid world	3
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy	3
Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism	3
Credible and salient: examining frame resonance through Athlete Ally	3
Cricket, Brexit and the Anglosphere	3
What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming	3
Intersections of nativism and football fandom in Zimbabwean online spaces	3
Analysing British Asian national sporting affiliations post-London 2012	3
Fantasy sports participation and the (de)humanization of professional athletes	3
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts	3
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models	3
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes	3
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games	3
“Kareem Hunt cut by the Chiefs for brutalizing woman on video”: online framings of racialized and gendered violence by a professional athlete	3
Examining attitudes towards homosexuality among young, athletic BME men in the UK	3
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia	3