International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Papers
(The H4-Index of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 13. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs52
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?22
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities19
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene18
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men17
Book Review: Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist by Noelle K. Brigden BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Streng17
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria16
‘Every day we’d have an arranged activity, so she’d have football, swimming, dance, gymnastics’: A sociological analysis of parenting and sports-based enrichment activities for the under-fives16
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer15
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media15
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity14
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England14
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens14
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport13
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture13
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport13
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States13
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