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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians	77
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	34
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	25
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	19
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	16
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	15
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	13
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	13
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	12
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	11
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	11
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	10
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	10
“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces	9
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	9
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	9
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	9
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	9
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	8
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	8
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	8
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	8
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	7
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	7
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	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
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport	7
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	7
“Track’s Coed, I Never Thought of It as Separate”: Challenging, Reproducing, and Negotiating Gender Stereotypes in Track and Field	7
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	7
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey	7
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	7
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes	6
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“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	6
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	6
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	6
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	6
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	6
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	5
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	5
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	5
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	5
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	5
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	5
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	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
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective	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
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball	4
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	4
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	4
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	4
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	4
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	4
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	4
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	4
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	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
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	4
Letter From the Editor	4
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field: An Introduction	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
“Getting Back on the Bike”: Risk, Injury, and Sport-Related Concussion in Competitive Road Cycling	3
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	3
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	3
Transgender Athletes’ Testimonies of Existence and Resistance: Breaking Gender Binaries in Online Women’s Sports Media	3
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	3
“I Can’t Because I Am a Man”: Masculinity, Manhood, and Gender Equality in Sport for Development	3
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy: Examining Olympic Channel Content Through a Gendered Lens	3

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