OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘A vision of paradise lost’: coaching as a grasshopper rather than an ant	17
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	15
Nature sport’s ism problem	14
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	14
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	13
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	7
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	6
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	5
Game play, wholehearted engagement, and the good life	5
A just organized youth sport	4
The puzzle of sports fandom	4
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	4
The allure of sports in western culture	4
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context	4
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	4
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	3
Is bodybuilding a sport?	3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3
Boredom, sport, and games	3
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	3
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
Art, aesthetics, and the medium: comments for Nguyen on the art-status of games	3
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781942956945	3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement	3

Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki	2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
Beyond agency: games as the aesthetics of being	2
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2