OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication & Sport is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero	62
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships	43
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance	28
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions	27
Are Combat Sports Too Violent? Effects of Counter-Balancing Perceptions of Violence Through AR-Infused Gamification	22
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media	21
“At Augusta National, Not Talking About Race Is Tradition”: Race and Journalistic Repair Discourse at the Masters Tournament	20
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune	19
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport	19
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’	19
“Thug,” “Classless,” and the Policing of Black Womanhood in Sports: A Case Study of Racialized Language and Angel Reese	17
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange	16
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis	16
Soft Activism in Sport: Semantic and Sentiment Analysis of Well-Being Narratives Across Elite Multi-Sport Athletes	16
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry	15
The Construction of Human Rights Narratives in the 2022 World Cup: A Critical Examination of US and Qatari News Coverage	14
Forgiving the Foul: The Role of Moral Decoupling, Emotions, and Forgiveness in Fan Responses to Sports Crises	14
Reversing the Flow: Morocco’s Harnessing of Diasporic Talent and the Recent Success of the Atlas Lions in International Football	14
Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions: An Intersectional and Computational Analysis of Social Media Commentary During the 2024 Paralympics	13
Embrace Methodological Breadth in Communication and Sport Research – A Response to Cummins and Hahn	13
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic	13
Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of its Parts? Aggregation of Sports Events as a Driver of Coverage of (the) European Championships on German TV News Shows	12
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs	12
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain	12
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer	11

Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel	11
Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness	11
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)	10
The Role of Sports Commentary: Viewer’s Cognitive and Affective Responses and Moderating Effect of Prior Knowledge	10
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”	10
Shifting Sports Gambling Terrain: New Factors Within an Age-Old Activity	10
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games	10
War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics	9
Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games	9
Signing Off: An Examination Into Female Journalists Leaving Legacy Media	9
‘National Warriors’ and ‘Solo Celebrity’: Gender and Sport Nationalism in Media Representations of Chinese Women’s Volleyball and Li Na	9
Middle Aged Men in Lycra and the Performative Irony of Watching Tour de France	8
A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram	8
Streaming for Whom? Exploring the Audience Composition and Perceptions of Niche Sport Streams	8
Still Battling for Equity: Examining Biological Sex Portrayals Through the Lens of the Gold Coast During Australian Prime Time Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	8
Feminist Media Scholarship in Communication & Sport : A Response to the 10-Year Review	8
“We’ve … had to Make Ourselves more Visible Because … the Media hasn’t Done it for us”: Theorising a Visibility Bind in Relation to the Growing Prominence of Women’s Sport	8
“It Feels Like It’s in Our Back Yard”: Centering “Place” in Local Women’s Sports Media Coverage	7
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics	7
Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity	7
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders	7
Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems	7
From Seasoned Vet to Space-Taker: Gendered Ageism in Coverage of Professional Basketball Player Diana Taurasi’s Final Season	7
“You Don’t Want Us to Solve This”: Agenda Setting in the Federal Hearings on Name, Image, and Likeness	7
Hybrid Identity in Motion: Eileen Gu’s Cross-Platform Visual Self-Presentation on Weibo and Instagram	6
Role Models or Inferior Participants? Chinese News Portrayals of Gender and Disability in the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games	6
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?	6
Narratives of Naturalization of Foreign-Born Football Players in Vietnamese Mainstream Media: The Critical Case Study on Rafaelson Bezerra Fernandes	6
Silence, Signals, and Split-Second Meaning: Nonverbal Communication and Collective Sensemaking in Elite Team Sports	6
Questioning Sports Journalists: Stereotypes, Work Routines, and Color-Blind Racism in Sports Press Conferences	6
Toward a Measurement Tool for Sports Diplomacy in the News: The Case of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022	6
Between Opportunity and Scrutiny: Female Winter Olympians Navigating Sports Mediatization	6
The Role of Gender in Evaluating Athletes’ Endorsements of Corporate Social Advocacy Initiatives	6
Why Do People Collect Sportscards? Fan Motivations for Collecting Miniature Sports Media	6
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?	6
(Re)Coding the “Black Quarterback”: A 20-Year Critical Quantitative Analysis of Racial Stacking and the Mediated Dichotomy Between “Pro-Style” and “Dual-Threat”	6
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance	5
On Creating a Place, Space and Time for the Trans Athlete	5
How Does the Public Perceive the Problem? The Online Harassment of Women in Sport	5
Communication Scholars Should Help Uncover the Causes and Consequences of Mobile Sports Gambling: A Call for Research and Theory Development	5
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts	5
Finding Teammates on a Messy Playing Field: Continued Thoughts on 10 Years of Theory & Method in Communication & Sport	5
Reimagining History and Solidarity: Nationalist Discourse in Chinese Self-Media’s Coverage of the Belarusian Champion’s Olympic Triumph	5
When Dialogue Backfires: Economic Stratification and Engagement Paradoxes in English Premier League Clubs’ Dialogic Communication on X	5
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study	5
Social Identity Can be a Team Game: Social Identity and Other Factors that Widen and Bridge Partisan Gaps in Political Perceptions of Sports Media Topics	5
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 2020	5
Friends or Foes: Predicting Chinese Basketball Viewers’ Attitudes Toward Naturalized Athletes	5
The Local Perspective: Regional Television Framing of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport	5