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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Carousel of Gendering and Othering: Women Australian Rules Footballers’ Affective Experiences of Digital Self-Tracking	25
“Argentina's National Style: Maradona, Peronism, and Metaphysical Football.”	20
Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Student Athletes and Alcohol Use	17
C.L. Cole and Feminist Cultural Studies in Sport: More Than Thirty Years of Resisting the Canon	15
Football is Politics: Analyzing Public Emotions in Neymar Jr.'s Case and PEC das Praias Through the Instagram Accounts of Folha de	15
CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman	15
The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing	15
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	14
“It Comes Down to Strength and Stamina”: Video Assistant Referee and the Reproduction of Masculine Performance in Football Refereeing	14
Addressing Gender Inequity in Australian Sports Leadership: A Postfeminist Policy Paradox	11
The Unsteady Balance Between Rock Climbing, Culture, and the Environment: An Independent Study	11
Shy Like Me: Exploring Links Between Coaches’ Shyness and Beliefs About Shy and Exuberant Children in a Team Sports Context	10
Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Financial Sustainability of Sports Organizations	10
What is Informal Sport? Negotiating Contemporary Sporting Forms	9
Reflections on the Remit of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and the Sociocultural Study of Sport	8
Challenges to Olympic Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of the International Wushu Federation’s Strategies in Aligning With International Olympic Committee Program Reforms	8
The Global Security Field of Sports and How the World Health Organization Shapes Mega-Events in a (Post-)Pandemic World	7
The Queen's Gambit: Race, Gender, and Feminist Reclamation of Athletic Histories	7
Recreational Drug use at Sports Events in the US and UK	7
A Descriptive Look at the Mental Health Literacy of Student-Athletes	7
“Muslims are Leaving Football, They Think ‘What is the Point?’”: A Qualitative Study on Islamophobia in Grassroots Football in England and Wales	6
“Issue Introduction and Welcome” JSSI Spring 2025 Double-Issue	6
Athletic Fat and Disidentification: Reading Gender, Sport/Exercise, and Fatness on YouTube	6
Maradona and Public Diplomacy	5
Sport and Human Rights Issues: Can Major Sporting Events Improve Civil Liberties? An Examination of the Olympic and FIFA World Cup Host Nations Following the World War II	5

The Changing Role of Alcohol Among Male Australian Sports Fans: A Preliminary Social Practice Analysis	5
Black Mothers and NFL Moms Safety Clinics: An Ethnography of Care in American Football	5
The Game Changer: An Experimental Study on Motivation and Retention of Girls in Indian Sports	5
The Marketing of Mental Health Services through Sport: A Point–Counterpoint Discussion	5
Navigating the Waves of Formalization: Capital Reconfiguration and Strategic Adaptation of Informal Migrant Coaches	5
“There's an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as Cultural Studies”: Rethinking Sport Studies After the Cultural Turn	5
The Experiences, and Effects, of Racial Mistreatments in the Lives of Black Male Collegiate Football Players: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Many Ways to Lead: A Discourse Analysis of Sport as an Influencer for Climate Action	3
Exploring Stakeholders’ Interpretations of Safe Sport	3
In Recognition of a Quarter Century of Service and Scholarship	3
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
Representing Churandy: The Making of a Black Dutch Caribbean Sporting Celebrity in Dutch Media	3
Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research	3
From Despair to Glory, and Back: The Rags to Riches to Rags Story of Antonio Cervantes, Kid Pambelé	3
Let the Kids Play: Latino Players, Differing Play Styles and Racial Stigma in Major League Baseball	3
Fat Phobia Among Youth Sport Coaches	2
Alcohol use by Athletes: Hierarchy, status, and Reciprocity	2
Visions of Field	2
He Coulda Been a Contender: Talent, Deviance, and Cultural Intimacy in the Contested Tennis and Public Career of Nick Kyrgios	2
The Forgotten Group: A Call to Focus on Early Adulthood in Sport and Physical Activity Policy and Research	2
The Limits of Polycentric Governing Regimes: Preventing Athlete Abuse in the United States	2
Forbidden Fruits? Institutional Rules, Agency, and Structure in European Football	2
“Carbon Partners” and Collaborative Greenwashing: The Sustainability Partnership Between Dow Chemical and the Olympic Games	2
“It Was My Story to Tell and I Wasn’t Ready to Tell It”: Stigma Management Amongst LGBTQ+ Sport Officials	2
Unequal Road: Agency, Aspiration, and Migration in the Sporting Journeys of Ghanaian Female Athletes	2
Race and Occupational Mobility in the National Football League	1
Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Women With Diverse Experiences of Disability: Addressing the Policy Gap in Australian Disability Sport	1
The Modernization of Monitorization: Technological Adaption and Innovation as Mechanisms for College Athlete Surveillance	1
Israeli Hasbara and the NBA's Palestine Exception: The Impossibility of Capitalist “Social Justice”	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
Deliberative Spaces of Elite Athlete Representation in Transnational Sport Governance	1
Moral Judgment by Fans and Institutional Authority in Elite Football: Public Legitimacy Construction in BBC Sport Comment Sections	1
Identifying Civic Opportunity Structures Within Professional Football Fan Clubs	1
Everyday Football Fan Violence	1
An In-Depth Analysis of Youth Sport Coaches’ Perceptions of Sport Culture, Safety, and Injury Prevention	1
Listen, Tell, Show: Recreation and the Black and Decolonial Storytelling in Sport and Physical Culture Research	1
Social Capital Development via Sport for Migrant Women and Girls: Understanding “the Intersectional Stuff That Comes With Being a Woman From a Particular Cultural Background”	1
“Stick to Sports” and Critical Sports Media Industry Studies	1
Beyond Prize Money: Barriers to Gender Equity in Australian Surfing	1
Women from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds in Sport Leadership: A Scoping Review of Facilitators and Barriers	1
Parental Expectations for Children's Future Athletic Achievement: The Roles of Socio-Economic Status, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Athletic Experiences and Identities	1
A Scoping Review of the Causes and Consequences of Fraud in Sport	1