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 2021-11-01 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
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	13
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	13
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	11
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	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
#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
“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
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
“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
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes	6
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“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
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
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
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective	4