OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology of Sport Journal 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	138
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	44
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	24
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	21
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	19
Nonnormative Bodies in Sport: Connecting Dominant Gender Discourses on Trans, Nonbinary, Pregnant, and Mothering Athletes	18
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	18
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	14
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	14
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	13
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	12
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	12
Manufacturing Dreams and Investing in Future Generations: Women Athletes’ Inspirational Labor in the Marketing and Promotion of Their Sport	12
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement	12
Finding Identity and Community: The Hybrid, Heterogenous, and Multiple Experiences of Vietnamese Americans in Sport and Physical Activity	11
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	11
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	11
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	10
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	10
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	10
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	10
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	10
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	9
“There Was a Bagpiper Playing Amazing Grace, and I Broke Down Sobbing”: The Body and Military Affects at the Canada Army Run	9

Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	9
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	8
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Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	7
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	7
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	7
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	7
You Look Like Rugby: Reflexivity and the Embodied Politics of Ethnography in Sport Criminology	7
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	7
Man-Not Like Us: The Cultural Castration of Black Athletic Resistance	7
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex	7
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	7
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	7
Sanctified Bets? Religiosity, Gender, and Sports Gambling in the United States	6
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	6
Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams	6
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	6
Understanding Informal Sport Through Institutional Bricolage	6
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	5
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	5
(Dana) White Privilege: Sports Media Coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship Domestic Violence	5
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	5
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	5
Player to Influencer? College Athletes’ Roles and Identities in the Context of Name, Image, and Likeness	5
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	5
Third Space Identity Negotiation: A Case Study of Muslim Canadians and Faith- and Community-Based Sport	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
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	5
U.S. Sports Diplomacy as Counterinsurgency: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective	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
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	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
Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport	4
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	4
Letter From the Editor	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