OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sport & Social Issues 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Carousel of Gendering and Othering: Women Australian Rules Footballers’ Affective Experiences of Digital Self-Tracking	39
“Argentina's National Style: Maradona, Peronism, and Metaphysical Football.”	18
Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Student Athletes and Alcohol Use	17
The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing	15
CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman	15
“It Comes Down to Strength and Stamina”: Video Assistant Referee and the Reproduction of Masculine Performance in Football Refereeing	14
C.L. Cole and Feminist Cultural Studies in Sport: More Than Thirty Years of Resisting the Canon	12
Football is Politics: Analyzing Public Emotions in Neymar Jr.'s Case and PEC das Praias Through the Instagram Accounts of Folha de S.Paulo	9
What is Informal Sport? Negotiating Contemporary Sporting Forms	8
Kicking It Out? Football Fans’ Views of Anti-Racism Initiatives in English Football	8
Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Financial Sustainability of Sports Organizations	8
The Unsteady Balance Between Rock Climbing, Culture, and the Environment: An Independent Study	8
A Descriptive Look at the Mental Health Literacy of Student-Athletes	7
The Global Security Field of Sports and How the World Health Organization Shapes Mega-Events in a (Post-)Pandemic World	7
Reflections on the Remit of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and the Sociocultural Study of Sport	6
Challenges to Olympic Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of the International Wushu Federation’s Strategies in Aligning With International Olympic Committee Program Reforms	6
Athletic Fat and Disidentification: Reading Gender, Sport/Exercise, and Fatness on YouTube	5
“Issue Introduction and Welcome” JSSI Spring 2025 Double-Issue	5
“There's an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as Cultural Studies”: Rethinking Sport Studies After the Cultural Turn	5
“Muslims are Leaving Football, They Think ‘What is the Point?’”: A Qualitative Study on Islamophobia in Grassroots Football in England and Wales	5
Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research	4
Exploring Stakeholders’ Interpretations of Safe Sport	4
Black Mothers and NFL Moms Safety Clinics: An Ethnography of Care in American Football	4
The Experiences, and Effects, of Racial Mistreatments in the Lives of Black Male Collegiate Football Players: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Women's Physical Activity as Becoming: Lines of Flight from the Fitness Assemblage	4

Let the Kids Play: Latino Players, Differing Play Styles and Racial Stigma in Major League Baseball	3
Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection	3
Examining Stakeholder Outlooks on Football Policing and Security: The Case of Euro 2020	3
From Despair to Glory, and Back: The Rags to Riches to Rags Story of Antonio Cervantes, Kid Pambelé	3
Many Ways to Lead: A Discourse Analysis of Sport as an Influencer for Climate Action	3
Alcohol use by Athletes: Hierarchy, status, and Reciprocity	2
Fan Reflections on Sexuality in Women's Football in the United Kingdom	2
“Carbon Partners” and Collaborative Greenwashing: The Sustainability Partnership Between Dow Chemical and the Olympic Games	2
Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Women With Diverse Experiences of Disability: Addressing the Policy Gap in Australian Disability Sport	2
Fat Phobia Among Youth Sport Coaches	2
In Recognition of a Quarter Century of Service and Scholarship	2
“It Was My Story to Tell and I Wasn’t Ready to Tell It”: Stigma Management Amongst LGBTQ+ Sport Officials	2
“Riverboat Ron”: A Critical Reading of Ron Rivera, American Brownness & Latino Masculinities in the NFL	2
The Limits of Polycentric Governing Regimes: Preventing Athlete Abuse in the United States	2
The Anti-Intellectual Coach: The Cultural Politics of College Football Coaching from the New Left to the Present	1
A few Weeks in Dirt City: Sport-Related Gentrification, Mobilizing Resistance, and the Art of Failure in Edmonton, Alberta	1
“The Truth? I Play a Lot With My Credit Card”: A Multiple-Case Study Regarding Financial Challenges in Families With Youth Participating in Competitive Soccer	1
Race and Occupational Mobility in the National Football League	1
“Stick to Sports” and Critical Sports Media Industry Studies	1
An In-Depth Analysis of Youth Sport Coaches’ Perceptions of Sport Culture, Safety, and Injury Prevention	1
Women from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds in Sport Leadership: A Scoping Review of Facilitators and Barriers	1
Coaching While Black: Race, Leadership, and the National Football League	1
A Scoping Review of the Causes and Consequences of Fraud in Sport	1
Visions of Field	1
The Modernization of Monitorization: Technological Adaption and Innovation as Mechanisms for College Athlete Surveillance	1
Identifying Civic Opportunity Structures Within Professional Football Fan Clubs	1
Surfveillance: SurfCams, Social Issues and Regulatory Intervention	1
Listen, Tell, Show: Recreation and the Black and Decolonial Storytelling in Sport and Physical Culture Research	1