OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociology of Sport Journal 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians	70
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	34
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	30
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	23
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	18
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	15
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	13
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	13
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	12
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	11
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	10
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	10
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	9
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	9
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	9
“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces	8
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	8
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	8
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	8
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	8
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	7
“Track’s Coed, I Never Thought of It as Separate”: Challenging, Reproducing, and Negotiating Gender Stereotypes in Track and Field	7
Running (for) the Military: An Ethnography of Sport Militarism at the Canada Army Run	7
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	7
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	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
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	7
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	6
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	6
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	6
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	6
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey	6
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	6
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	6
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes	6
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	6
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport	6
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	6
Athletes as “Sites of Normative Intersectionality”: Critically Exploring the Ontology of Influence in Sport Coaching	6
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	5
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage	5
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Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	5
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	5
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	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
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	5
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	5
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective	4
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	4
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	4
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics	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
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	4
Letter From the Editor	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	4
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	4
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	4
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	4
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	4
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	4
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	4
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	3
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling	3
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development	3
Sports Heroes and the Invulnerability of Their Reputation to Sportswashing: The Case of Rafael Nadal	3
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	3
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	3
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	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

Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	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
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	3
Self-Presentation and Black Male College Athletes at Historically White Institutions	3
On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster	3
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism	3
What Are the Olympics For?	3
Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant	3
Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?	2
Sporting the Sacred: Redescribing the Study of Religion in the Sociology of Sport	2
Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self	2
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf	2
Religiosity and U.S. Adult Support for Youth Tackle Football: Risk Aversion or Playing for the Glory of God?	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
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts: The Death of Colin Meads and the New Zealand Imagination	2
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	2
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy: Examining Olympic Channel Content Through a Gendered Lens	2
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization	2
Hegemony and the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Resources Concerning Name, Image, and Likeness	2
Sport for Development and Transformative Social Change: The Potential of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach to Reconceptualize a Long-Standing Problem	2
Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Be Paid? A Public Opinion Analysis	2
“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19	2
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	2
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	2
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	2
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	2
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	2
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024	2
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win	2
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	2
Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress	1
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	1
Recuperative Wokeness: Nike and the Commodification of Potential for Social Change	1
Women Yoga Practitioners’ Experiences in the Pandemic: From Collective Exhaustion to Affirmative Ethics	1
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and Machine Futures	1
Representations of Wrigley Field Redevelopment(s) in the Chicago Tribune: Neoliberal Discourse and Urban Politics	1
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events	1
A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket	1
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy	1
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo	1
What Is a Girl Worth?: Gender-Based Violence and Accountability in SportsWorld	1
Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing	1
Exposures of Hypermasculinity: Aesthetic Portrayals of Disengaged “Hockey Boys” in a Specialized Sports Academy	1
The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey	1
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity	1
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”	1
A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun	1
The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game	1
Sport or Party? The University Sports in Paraná	1
The Penalty That’s Never Called: Sexism in Men’s Hockey Culture	1
Sports Attitudes in Childhood and Income in Adulthood	1
Brittney Griner, Intersectionality, and “Woke Politics”: A Critical Examination of Brittney Griner’s Return to the United States	1
“A Lot of What We Ride Is Their Land”: White Settler Canadian Understandings of Mountain Biking, Indigeneity, and Recreational Colonialism	1
A Different World: A BlackCrit Reconceptualization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletics	1
Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020)	1
Gender, Sexual, and Sports Fan Identities	1
Anti-Black Misandry as an Emotional Reflection With Black American Male College Athletes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study	1
All the Right Questions: Exploring Racial Stereotypes in Sports Press Conferences	1
Moving Beyond Models: Theorizing Physical Disability in the Sociology of Sport	1
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation1	1
Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender	1
“Sorry If I Offended”: The Art of Nonapology, Racism, and White Supremacy in Sport	1
“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media	1
The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game	1
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was	1
Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization	1
Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives	1
Feminist Sport Media Studies in SSJ: Mapping Theoretical Frameworks and Geographies of Knowledge Production	1
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace	1
Sports and the Limits of the Binary: The Contested Terrains of Trans and Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion	1
Scientific Neglect: Cis-Bias in the Sociology of Sport’s Approach to Trans Athletes	1
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	1
“Saturdays Are For The Boys”: Barstool Sports and the Cultural Politics of White Fratriarchy in Contemporary America	1
Trans Athletes in College Sport: Searching for a Path That Leads to Greater Inclusion	1
Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization Through Physical Activity	1
Investigating the Nexus of Paralympic Bodies With Medicine	1