International Journal of the History of Sport

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Between Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization: Lifecycles of Sports Clubs in Israel23
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay11
The Premier and China’s Pursuit of the Olympics9
Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang8
More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan8
Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community, by Younghan Cho7
Japan through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics7
Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia6
From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea6
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa6
The Impact of Sex and Gendered Stories of Sport in Australia4
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance3
Priests, Bearers, Schoolboys, Sailors: Pioneering Indian Field Hockey Players from Bengal in the 1890s3
The Athletes’ Voice and a Feminist Ethics of Care: The Russian Doping Scandal at the 2016 Olympic Games3
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’3
A Futile Contestation for Olympic Power: The Case of Roberto G. Peper’s Election to the International Olympic Committee3
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s3
An Alternative Model for International Competition: The First Women’s World Field Hockey Tournament, Copenhagen 19333
The (Not So) United Soccer of Atlanta: An Early History of Class Distinction and Racial Separatism in Organized Youth Soccer2
Festive Federalism: Race, Nation, and Neoliberal Aesthetics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games2
Australia’s Game: The History of Australian Football2
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–19412
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio2
‘I Consider Myself a Political Prisoner’: The Long and Strange Journeys of American Rebels Enmeshed in Ironies of the Athletes’ Rights Crusade2
Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era*2
A Sporting Nation: Creating Sámi Identity through Sport2
A Tale of Two Medals: The USA, Olympic Ice Hockey and Popular American Views of Détente (1972) and Renewed Cold War (1980)2
On the Origins of the Young Men’s Catholic Association as a Response to the Protestant Recreation Ethic in the United States, 1854–19092
The Uruguayan Civic-Military Dictatorship and Football: Authoritarianism, Resistance and Mediations (1973–1980)2
Out of Apartheid’s (Racial) Corner: One Man’s Journey from Bare-Fists to Bible-Puncher2
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa2
The Membership Composition of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee: Between Appointments and Elections, 1981–20002
‘We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand2
Walking through the Dark: FC Barcelona and the Forced Closure of 19252
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement2
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer2
Developing Winning Ways for Women’s Sport: New Zealand’s National Netball Team2
Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place2
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa2
Strategic Role of Taiwanese Acrobatics in the Cultural Diplomacy of the Republic of China since the Cold War2
The Nationalization of Algerian Football following Independence, 1962–19822
Chadwick: A Man of Many Parts1
The History of Outdoor Learning in Canada1
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites1
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter1
Historical Overview: Playable Female Athlete Characters in Sport Simulation Videogames1
Sport or Spectacle? The Harlem Globetrotters’ 1955 Visit to Israel1
¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Laagues/En los barrios y las grandes ligas1
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr1
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand1
Correction1
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby1
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms1
Sport for All in Brazil in the 1970s: The Institutionalisation of a Government Policy for Mass Sport1
The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–19561
Football and Black Identity: Lifestyle Construction in A Voz da Raça in São Paulo, Brazil, in 19331
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader1
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States1
22 Players Run After the Ball for 90 Minutes, and in the End England Wins. German Views of the 1935 and 1938 Germany–England Football Matches1
Sports in South America: A History1
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19891
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’1
Introduction: Africa in the Boxing Ring1
Ankō Itosu: The Man, the Master, the Myth, Biography of a Legend1
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes1
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics1
Archaeology of Historic Football Grounds: A Case Study of the 19 May Stadium in Turkey1
Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–19131
Introduction1
Traditional and Modern Sports in the Forging of Respectability in Nineteenth-Century Spain1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
What Factors Determine the Success or Failure of ‘Cross-Border’ Career Development of Chinese Retired Olympic Champions? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis1
The Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club1
A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power1
Introduction1
Modern Life-Building as a Biopower Strategy: Developing Sports Spaces in Urban, Rural and Industrial Areas in Turkey1
A Runner’s Journey1
Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age1
‘I See the Struggle against Race Supremacy and Racial Inequality as World-Wide’: Anti-Apartheid Campaigns, Civil Rights Struggles, and the 1961 Track and Field Tours of South Africa1
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital1
A Supplementary Sport? Towards a Historical Analysis of the Development of Badminton in New Zealand, c. 1870–19391
Chamonix 1924: The First Winter Olympics1
Identifying Contextual Factors That Informed Planning and System Development for School-Based Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Education: A Realist Evaluation1
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland1
Sports and Lao-Viet Contact and Conflict in the 1930s1
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-191
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank1
Evolution of Professional Football Management in the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 20161
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 19271
Excavating the Ancestry of ‘Globetrotting’: New Perspectives on the Intersection of Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles and anti-Apartheid Crusades in US Track and Field from the 1920s through the1
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha1
‘Know the Game—Boxing’: Boxing in Colonial Kenya, 1895–19631
Römische Gladiatorenbilder: Studien zu den Gladiatorenreliefs der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit aus Italien1
Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives,1
El deporte en la Grecia antigua: aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales (Sport in Ancient Greece: socio-political and cultural aspects)1
Sports and Recreation in the Modern Industrial Campuses of the Early Republican Turkey (1923–1945)1
The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies1
Dawn of the War on Steroids1
Major League Baseball Labour Conflict and the Popularization of Fantasy Baseball1
A Dilemma: Women in Turkish Sport News Amidst Modernization and Traditionalism1
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