OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sport & Social Issues is 4. 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
“Argentina's National Style: Maradona, Peronism, and Metaphysical Football.”	19
The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing	19
The Carousel of Gendering and Othering: Women Australian Rules Footballers’ Affective Experiences of Digital Self-Tracking	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
The Unsteady Balance Between Rock Climbing, Culture, and the Environment: An Independent Study	10
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
Shy Like Me: Exploring Links Between Coaches’ Shyness and Beliefs About Shy and Exuberant Children in a Team Sports Context	8
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
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
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
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
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
“Issue Introduction and Welcome” JSSI Spring 2025 Double-Issue	4

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