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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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