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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	18
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	18
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	15
Nature sport’s ism problem	14
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	9
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	8
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	7
The allure of sports in western culture	7
A just organized youth sport	6
The puzzle of sports fandom	6
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	6
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	5
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	4
Boredom, sport, and games	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	4
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	4
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement	3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	3
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	2

Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art	2
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781942956945	2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom	2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by	2