Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners19
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport18
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’15
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept14
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport10
Nature sport’s ism problem8
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports7
A just organized youth sport7
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship6
The allure of sports in western culture6
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law6
The puzzle of sports fandom5
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences4
Is bodybuilding a sport?4
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems4
Boredom, sport, and games4
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization4
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport3
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence3
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 97819429569453
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport3
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites2
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge2
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by2
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom2
Games as agential yoga: athletic virtues and their agential counterparts1
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy1
How bad can good sport be?1
The concession rule1
Democracy, philosophy and sport: animating the agonistic spirit1
Magnificent Utopian games1
The power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism1
Strengthening the status quo: moral regulation of anti-doping policy1
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium1
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?1
Easy games are still games for Suits1
Cowboy professionalism: a cultural study of big-mountain tourism in the last frontier1
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White1
The parental dilemma of talented children1
The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagons The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagons , edited by Holt, Jason and Ramsay, Marc, Routled1
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport1
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport1
Surfing and the philosophy of sport Surfing and the philosophy of sport , by Daniel Brennan, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7936-4078-9 (hardback), ISBN 978-11
Trash talk and Kantian values1
Risky rescues – a reply to Patrick Findler1
Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity1
The role of risk in nature sports1
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports1
The real ethical problems with strategic fouling in basketball1
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition1
On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport , by Matt Hoven, J. J. Carney, Max T. Engel Eugene, Oregon, Cascade Books1
Athletes as workers1
In defense of medically supervised doping1
Categorization, virtues in sport, and the relevance of social injustice: a tribute to J.S. Russell1
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport1
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players1
Responses to contributors to ‘ the sport philosophy of J.S. Russell ’1
World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development1
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