OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of the History of Sport is 1. 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
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland	33
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer	16
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand	11
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr	9
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms	8
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes	7
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–1941	6
Introduction: Africa in the Boxing Ring	6
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa	5
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby	4
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa	4
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States	4
Six Minutes in Berlin. Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics	3
Image of ‘Sino-Western Essence’ in the Press: On the ‘Dual-Track’ Physical Training System of Chin Woo Athletic Federation	3
The Polish Olympic Committee’s Subjection to the Communist Authorities in the Stalinist Period: An Inside Story	3
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa	3
Professional Basketball, the ‘Hardship Case’ and the ‘Culture of Poverty’: The Social Construction of Black Basketball Players from Spencer Haywood to Moses Malone, 1969–1974	3
‘Dis Football Sef … Na Wahala’: A Continental Contest That Troubled a Nation	3
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development	3
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter	3
White Gold: Snowmaking, Resort Growth, and Skier Experience in the U.S. East, 1945–1971	3
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments	3
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)	3
Breaking New Ground: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Cricket in India, 1973–1991	2
Book Reviews: A Specificity of Historical Practice	2

Between Purity and Pragmatism: The Politics of Purebred Breeding and Racing of the Orlov Trotter in Imperial Russia, 1880–1915	2
Development of Japanese Martial Arts in Hungarian Sport Culture	2
‘A Democracy That Will Know Not the Differences of Race’: American ‘Globetrotting’ in South Africa from the 1920s through the 1980s in Perspective	2
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values	2
Cooperation of Sports Communities with the Government Apparatus in Poland in the Years 1945–1989	2
From Motions to Missions: Interrogating Sport Organization Annual Reports as Works of Sport Memory	2
‘It’s a Policy Matter, Not a Racial Matter’: Athlete Activism and Symbiotic Struggles against Apartheid in US Track and Field of the Early 1970s	2
Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina: La Nuestra	2
The Medical Examination of Lady Competitors: Sex Control in Skiing, 1967–2000	2
A Bouncing Echo of Medieval Heydays? The Legacy of Pärk ( Jeu de Paume ) in Gotland	2
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: Socio-Cultural Perspectives	2
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England	2
The Girl with the Torch: The Life Story of Gymnast Karin Lindberg Lindén	2
Reading Le Jingyi’s Back: The Creation and Construction of the Sino-Steroid Spectre in the Western Media in the Post–Cold War Era	2
Decathlon and the 2 Second Tent: From Discount to Innovation (1976–2008)	2
A Mutual Dependency: Postcolonial Relations between the French Athletics Federation and French-Speaking African Athletics Federations (1956–1969)	2
Football, Propaganda and International Relations under Francoism: The 1960 and 1964 European Nations Cup and Their Impact on the International Press	2
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	2
‘An Honour, Rather than a Disgrace’: Song Koon Poh, Apartheid Rugby, Tokkie’s Dragons and the Politics of Dissent and Confession	2
Sustainable Local Operation of Chin Woo Athletic Association in Singapore and Malaysia	2
From California to Brazil: The History of Skateboarding in Curitiba, Paraná (1975–1999)	1
Sports Press as a Soft Power Tool in the Polish-German Border Plebiscite of 1921	1
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay	1
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan	1
Living Football, Navigating Politics: Salah Assad’s Life Story in Post-Colonial and Post-Conflict Algeria	1
The Trade Union Sport Organisation in Communist Romania between 1973 and 1989: Workplace Gymnastics, Mass and Elite Sport	1
‘Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–1990	1
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps	1
Media Framing of Women’s Football in Nigeria from the Early Twentieth Century to Present	1
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’	1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee	1
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa	1
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader	1
Sports Facility Development and Politics in Budapest since 1945	1
Sports in South America: A History	1
Rugby in Early Communist Romania	1
Internationalisation and Modern Sport: The Anglo-French Struggle to Control International Cycling, 1892–1914	1
A Hotly Contested Affair: Hockey in Canada: The National Game in Documents	1
Louis Faure-Dujarric, a French Sports Architect in the Interwar Period	1
The Olympic Oath and so Much More: A Biographical Interpretive Analysis of the Life of Victor Boin, 1886–1974	1
Exploring Sport’s Role in Mitigating Conflicts Gulf Cup as a Case Study	1
The Political and Social Determinants of Football Hooliganism in Central Europe in the Interwar Period	1
Regulating, Controlling and Using New Financial Inflows: The Introduction of a Modern Licensing Scheme in Swiss Professional Football (1992–2010)	1
‘In Case of Dispute, the French Text is to be Used’: A History of the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR), 1904–1922	1
On the Kicking Techniques of Pankration	1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 1927	1
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries	1
Turning Gymnasts into Citizen-Soldiers: The Militarization of Physical Activities during the Third Republic in France (1870–1940)	1
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance	1
Sumiyuki Kotani, the Kodokan Emissary to Brazil	1

Disputed Frontiers: Open Water Crossings in the River Plate, 1918–1924	1
A Contested Victory: Liberal Reformism and Women’s Physical Culture in Colombia, 1930–1946	1
Inaugurating ‘Good Feeling between the United States and South Africa’: The 1931 All-White Tour of South Africa	1
The Sidesaddle: The Unlikely Emblem of Equestrian Empowerment	1
Introduction	1
Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey’s Agents of Change	1
‘In the Interest of Reporting the Facts, and Not the Fiction, of South African Sport’: Race, Netball, and the Struggle for Social Justice in South Africa	1
Willy Richard Frantz Seewald (1900–1929): The Brazilian Sportsman in the 1924 Olympic Games	1
Analysis of the Cancellation of the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in Taiwan	1
Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900–1949	1
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)	1
An Evaluation of Turkish Wrestling History during the Ottoman Empire	1
Commodifying Race: The Portrayal of Bernardo Mikixi, an Angolan Mixed Martial Artist, in the Extreme Fighting Championship’s Advertising Materials in South Africa, 2009–2015	1
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital	1
From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea	1
The Sporting Battalion Athletes in the Defence of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War ¹	1
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio	1
Sport and Social Difference in Vienna around 1900: On the Historical Significance of Otto Herschmann	1
The Origin and Significance of the Korean Boy Scout Movement during the Japanese Occupation	1
A Historical Narrative of High School Athletics Amongst ‘Coloured’ Communities in Cape Town, South Africa, with Special Reference to the Western Province Senior Schools Sports Union, 1956-1972	1
Physical Education, Sports and Educational Reforms: The Assistance Agreement Between the Argentine Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany (1961–1980)	1
Introduction	1
On the Take: The 1910 Scandal That Changed Australian Football Forever	1