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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Carousel of Gendering and Othering: Women Australian Rules Footballers’ Affective Experiences of Digital Self-Tracking	19
“Argentina's National Style: Maradona, Peronism, and Metaphysical Football.”	19
The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing	19
C.L. Cole and Feminist Cultural Studies in Sport: More Than Thirty Years of Resisting the Canon	13
Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Student Athletes and Alcohol Use	13
CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman	11
Football is Politics: Analyzing Public Emotions in Neymar Jr.'s Case and PEC das Praias Through the Instagram Accounts of Folha de S.Paulo	10
“It Comes Down to Strength and Stamina”: Video Assistant Referee and the Reproduction of Masculine Performance in Football Refereeing	10
The Unsteady Balance Between Rock Climbing, Culture, and the Environment: An Independent Study	10
The Rise of Private Club and Travel Teams in the U.S.: Generational Changes in Youth Sports Participation and Associations with Socioeconomic Statuses and Family and Community Sport Cultures	8
What is Informal Sport? Negotiating Contemporary Sporting Forms	8
Shy Like Me: Exploring Links Between Coaches’ Shyness and Beliefs About Shy and Exuberant Children in a Team Sports Context	8
The Global Security Field of Sports and How the World Health Organization Shapes Mega-Events in a (Post-)Pandemic World	7
Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Financial Sustainability of Sports Organizations	7
Challenges to Olympic Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of the International Wushu Federation’s Strategies in Aligning With International Olympic Committee Program Reforms	6
Reflections on the Remit of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and the Sociocultural Study of Sport	5
“Muslims are Leaving Football, They Think ‘What is the Point?’”: A Qualitative Study on Islamophobia in Grassroots Football in England and Wales	5
Recreational Drug use at Sports Events in the US and UK	5
A Descriptive Look at the Mental Health Literacy of Student-Athletes	5
The Queen's Gambit: Race, Gender, and Feminist Reclamation of Athletic Histories	5
“Issue Introduction and Welcome” JSSI Spring 2025 Double-Issue	4
“There's an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as Cultural Studies”: Rethinking Sport Studies After the Cultural Turn	4
Maradona and Public Diplomacy	4
The Experiences, and Effects, of Racial Mistreatments in the Lives of Black Male Collegiate Football Players: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Athletic Fat and Disidentification: Reading Gender, Sport/Exercise, and Fatness on YouTube	4

Black Mothers and NFL Moms Safety Clinics: An Ethnography of Care in American Football	4
Women's Physical Activity as Becoming: Lines of Flight from the Fitness Assemblage	3
The Grass Ceiling: An Investigation into What Drives Gender Exclusion in Golf	3
In Recognition of a Quarter Century of Service and Scholarship	3
Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research	3
Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection	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
Exploring Stakeholders’ Interpretations of Safe Sport	3
Let the Kids Play: Latino Players, Differing Play Styles and Racial Stigma in Major League Baseball	3
Alcohol use by Athletes: Hierarchy, status, and Reciprocity	2
Fat Phobia Among Youth Sport Coaches	2
Representing Churandy: The Making of a Black Dutch Caribbean Sporting Celebrity in Dutch Media	2
“Riverboat Ron”: A Critical Reading of Ron Rivera, American Brownness & Latino Masculinities in the NFL	2
“Carbon Partners” and Collaborative Greenwashing: The Sustainability Partnership Between Dow Chemical and the Olympic Games	2
Forbidden Fruits? Institutional Rules, Agency, and Structure in European Football	2
“It Was My Story to Tell and I Wasn’t Ready to Tell It”: Stigma Management Amongst LGBTQ+ Sport Officials	1
An In-Depth Analysis of Youth Sport Coaches’ Perceptions of Sport Culture, Safety, and Injury Prevention	1
“Stick to Sports” and Critical Sports Media Industry Studies	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
Israeli Hasbara and the NBA's Palestine Exception: The Impossibility of Capitalist “Social Justice”	1
The Limits of Polycentric Governing Regimes: Preventing Athlete Abuse in the United States	1
Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Women With Diverse Experiences of Disability: Addressing the Policy Gap in Australian Disability Sport	1
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
Unequal Road: Agency, Aspiration, and Migration in the Sporting Journeys of Ghanaian Female Athletes	1