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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	19
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	17
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	16
Nature sport’s ism problem	14
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	14
The allure of sports in western culture	7
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	7
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	7
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	6
A just organized youth sport	6
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context	6
The puzzle of sports fandom	5
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	4
Boredom, sport, and games	4
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	4
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	4
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	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
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

Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	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
A comparative philosophy of sport and art	2
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom	2
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by	2