OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology of Sport Journal is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
	58
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy: Examining Olympic Channel Content Through a Gendered Lens	28
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians	20
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace	18
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	15
“A Lot of What We Ride Is Their Land”: White Settler Canadian Understandings of Mountain Biking, Indigeneity, and Recreational Colonialism	14
Rugby, Nationalism, and Deaf Athlete Counterhegemony: Insights From the Case of Fiji	13
Counter Stories on the Meaning of Sport in the Lives of Black Youth Who Are Incarcerated	11
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	11
How Sports Identification Compares to Political and Religious Identification: Relationships to Violent Extremism and Radicalization	9
Anti-Black Racism and Soccer in Canada: Is It Because I’m Black, Ref?	9
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	9
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	8
Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams	8
Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer Fandom	8
“They Do Not Represent Our Gym”: How CrossFit Affiliates Define Community as They Respond to Racial Controversy	8
Reflections on Working With Black Youth From Underserved Communities in the United States: Decolonizing My Whiteness Through Critical Collaborative Interrogation	8
To Live, Play, and Die in Tianjin: Football as Biopolitical Assemblage in Contemporary China	7
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	7
“Soul on Ice”: Black Commodification, Race, and the National Hockey League	7
“There Will Always Be Opposition”: Collegiate Coaches’ and Athletic Administrators’ Perceptions of LGBTQIA+ Pride Initiatives	5
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	5
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	5
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	5
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	5

The Black College Athletes’ Burden: A Critical Analysis of Race, Civic Engagement, and Activism of National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletes	5
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance	5
Athlete Migration in Global Sports: The Case of East-African Runners in Brazil	5
Gender, Sexual, and Sports Fan Identities	5
Sport and Transnational Indigenous Solidarity From Turtle Island to Palestine? Examining Iroquois Nationals’ 2018 Trip to Israel	5
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	5
Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations	4
Legitimizing and Transforming Gender Relations Within the Contemporary Equestrian Sport of Charrería in Mexico	4
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District	4
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and Machine Futures	4
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	4
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	4
The Production of Coaching: A Critical Examination of Space in Coaching	4
Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self	4
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	4
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	4
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	4
“What Is Lost so That Other Things Can Be Sustained?”: The Climate Crisis, Loss, and the Afterlife of Golf	4
Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods	4
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	4
“I Realize My White Privilege Certainly Has Contributed to This Whole Experience”: White Undergraduate Sport Management Students Engagement With Racism in a Sport-For-Development Service-Learning Cour	4
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	4
Overcoming Gender Barriers in Sports—An Opportunity of Adventure/High Risk Sports?	3
“Just Existing Is Activism”: Transgender Experiences in Martial Arts	3
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	3
Letter from the Editor: Celebrating SSJ’s 40th Anniversary	3
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	3
Sociology of Sport in Argentina: A Review of Publications in Local Journals (1995–2020)	3
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	3
Sports Attitudes in Childhood and Income in Adulthood	3
Weighing the Body: Women Olympic Weightlifters Negotiating Weight Class, Body Image, and the Unruly Body	3
“Futures—Past,” A Reflection of 40 Years of the Sociology of Sport Journal: An Introduction	3
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage	3
The Influence of Confucianism on Para-Sport Activism	3
Marketing Politics and Resistance: Mobilizing Black Pain in National Football League Publicity	3
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever	3
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	3
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	3
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	3
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”	3
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	3