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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians	63
Mobile Mega-Event Expertise in an “East Asian Era”	30
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming	26
How Racial Tasking Leads to Inequitable Financial Remuneration Among Power-5 College Football Coaches	22
“Compatriot” or “Stateless”: Iranian State-Owned Media and Social Media Depictions of Iranian Refugee Kimia Alizadeh’s Match at the Tokyo Olympic Games	15
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue!: Black Aesthetics, Access, Inclusion, and Resistance	14
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports	14
The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	11
Wrestling With Jello: “Good Dads” and the Reproduction of Male Dominance in Children’s Baseball	11
Erratum. Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	10
Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC	10
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
#TheyareUnited and #TheyWantToPlay: A Critical Discourse Analysis of College Football Player Social Media Activism	9
Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It? Racial Justice Activism and Articulations of Whiteness Among White Collegiate Athlete Activists	9
Contradiction or Cohesion? Tracing Questions of Protection and Fairness in Scientifically Driven Elite Sport Policies	9
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a “Diverse” Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics	8
“They Just Dash Us to the Side”: Race, Gender, and Negotiating Access to Basketball Spaces	8
Erratum. A Baltimore Benevolence Thing? American Philanthropy, Neoliberal Fitness, and the Persistence of “Colorblind” Racial Silencing	8
Running (for) the Military: An Ethnography of Sport Militarism at the Canada Army Run	7
Does Location Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Stadium Location and Attendance at National Women’s Soccer League Matches	7
Privileging Difference: Negotiating Gender Essentialism in U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer	7
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus	6
Opportunities Denied: The Divergent Resonance of Opportunity for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Hockey Players With the Now-Disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks	6
Gender Critical Feminism and Trans Tolerance in Sports	6

Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It	6
Athletes as “Sites of Normative Intersectionality”: Critically Exploring the Ontology of Influence in Sport Coaching	6
The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment	6
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence	6
“Track’s Coed, I Never Thought of It as Separate”: Challenging, Reproducing, and Negotiating Gender Stereotypes in Track and Field	6
Under the Influence: Marijuana, the Black Male Athlete, and Alternative Understandings of Humanity	6
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL	5
#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey	5
Erratum. Career Winnings and Gender in Thoroughbred Racing	5
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Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes	5
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport	5
International High-Performance Sport Camps and the Development of Emplaced Physical Capital Among Pasifika Athletes	5
College Football “Kids”: Infantilizing Language in Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl Game Broadcasts	5
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup	5
Are We Really That Inclusive? An Examination of the Performance of Masculinities in Rugby Union Clubs in England, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand	5
Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood	5
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism	5
“Who Am I ... a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces	5
Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes	4
Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective	4
Intertwining Influences on Perceptions of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport: A Close Study of a Chinese New Immigrant Mother–Daughter Pair	4
Nationalism and Anti-LGBTQ+: Exploring the Role of Nationalism in Soccer Fans’ Protests Against LGBTQ+ Equal Rights	4
Does Sport Bring Different Racial/Ethnic Groups Together? Examining U.S. Adults’ Beliefs and the Impact of Youth and Adult Sport Experiences	4
Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport	4
The Non-Sweet Sixteen: Referee Bias Against Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Men’s College Basketball	4
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza	4
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage	4
When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences	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
Stereotype Threat and Interscholastic Athletic Leadership	4
“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play	4
Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions	3
From Exploitative Systems to Exploitative Relationships: A Black Feminist Intervention to Scholarship on Exploitation in College Athletics	3
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities: An Analysis of Structural Stigma	3
What Are the Olympics For?	3
Mega Sport Event Volunteers: Understanding the Role of Space in Social Capital Development at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games	3
Whitewashed and Blacked Out: Counter-Narratives as an Analytical Framework for Studies of Ice Hockey in Canada	3
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics: “There’s a Lot of Work Still Yet To Be Done”	3
Letter From the Editor	3
Through the Decades: Critical Race Theory and Pathways Forward in Sport Sociology Research	3
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Protest During the National Anthem? An Analysis of Public Opinions Among U.S. Adults	3
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict	3
Saving Women’s Sport: The Case for Feminist Dialogue With the Unregulated Majority	3
Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism	3
Constructing Diaspora Space and Consciousness Through Sport and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda	3
Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant	3
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport	3