OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociology of Sport Journal 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians	82
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	35
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	26
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	19
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	17
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	16
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	14
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	14
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	12
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	12
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	11
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	11
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	10
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	10
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	9
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	9
“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces	9
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	9
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	9
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	9
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	9
“Track’s Coed, I Never Thought of It as Separate”: Challenging, Reproducing, and Negotiating Gender Stereotypes in Track and Field	8
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	8
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	7
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	7

“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	7
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey	7
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	7
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport	7
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	7
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	7
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	7
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	7
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	7
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	6
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	6
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	6
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes	6
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Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	6
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	6
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	5
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	5
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	5
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	5
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	5
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	5
A Proposal for an “Environmental Sports Journalism” (ESJ) Approach: Principles and Illustrative Examples From Coverage of the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games	5
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	5
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	5
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	5
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	4
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics	4
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	4
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	4
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	4
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	4
What Are the Olympics For?	4
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective	4
Letter From the Editor	4
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	4
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	4
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	4
On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster	3
Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?	3
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	3
Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and Gender S	3
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	3
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	3

Necropolitics Narratives and Disposition of Lives in Sport Spectacle: Negotiating the Death of Mexican Boxer Jeanette Zacarías Zapata in Quebec’s Sport/Media Landscape	3
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	3
“Is Black Culture Marketable?”: Angel Reese, TikTok Branding, and Respectability Politics in the Name, Image, and Likeness Era	3
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization	3
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	3
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling	3
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy: Examining Olympic Channel Content Through a Gendered Lens	3
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	3
Sports Heroes and the Invulnerability of Their Reputation to Sportswashing: The Case of Rafael Nadal	3
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	3
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism	3
“I Just Don’t Wanna Deal With the Headache of People Fighting Over the Internet”: A Study of Sponsored Female Climbers’ Digital Labor	3
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development	3
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf	2
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win	2
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences	2
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	2
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19	2
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress	2
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024	2
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts: The Death of Colin Meads and the New Zealand Imagination	2
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	2
Religiosity and U.S. Adult Support for Youth Tackle Football: Risk Aversion or Playing for the Glory of God?	2
Erratum. Reconstructing, Challenging, and Negotiating Sex/Gender in Sport: U.S. Public Opinion About Transgender Athletes’ Rights, Rights for Athletes With Varied Sex Characteristics, Sex Testing, and	2
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion	2
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation1	2
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	2
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun	2
On Thin Ice: Toward A Modified Male Peer Support Theory of Professional Hockey Players’ Violence Against Women	2
Gender Equality in the “Next Stage” of the “New Age?” Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup	2
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	2
Sporting the Sacred: Redescribing the Study of Religion in the Sociology of Sport	2
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity	2
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey	2
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender	2
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness	2
Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Be Paid? A Public Opinion Analysis	2
Sport for Development and Transformative Social Change: The Potential of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach to Reconceptualize a Long-Standing Problem	2
Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self	2