OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Sport and exercise in times of self-quarantine: How Germans changed their behaviour at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic	128
Women in sports leadership: A systematic narrative review	50
Homo- and transnegativity in sport in Europe: Experiences of LGBT+ individuals in various sport settings	25
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia	16
Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines	16
Chinese martial arts and the Olympics: Analysing the policy of the International Wushu Federation	16
Gay male athletes’ coming-out stories on Outsports.com	15
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	14
‘Who unlocked the kitchen?’: Online misogyny, YouTube comments and women's professional street skateboarding	14
Extreme weight control behaviors among adolescent athletes: Links with weight-related maltreatment from parents and coaches and sport ethic norms	13
Walking the line? An investigation into elite athletes’ sport-related use of painkillers and their willingness to use analgesics to train or compete when injured	12
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics	12
‘These are “our” sports’: Kabaddi and Kho-Kho women athletes from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan	11
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	10
‘These chicks go just as hard as us!’ (Un)doing gender in a Dutch CrossFit gym	9
The intersubjective accomplishment of power by medical professionals within unregulated combat sports	9
Understanding match-fixing from the perspective of social capital: A case study of Taiwan’s professional baseball system	9
The toxic doxa of “clean sport” and IOC’s and WADA’s quest for credibility	9
(Per)forming identity in the mind-sport bridge: Self, partnership and community	9
‘Everything is said with a smile’: Homonegative speech acts in sport	9
A new era? How the European ESPN covered the 2019 Women’s World Cup online	9
Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter	9
Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study	8
Linking sports-related and socio-economic resources of retiring Olympic athletes to their subsequent vocational career	8
National sport success and the emergent social atmosphere: The case of Iceland	8

‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement	8
‘We are the vocal minority’: The Safe Standing movement and breaking down the state in English football	8
Social capital networks in sports spectatorship and participation	8
Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports	7
Contingent nationalism: The genesis of ultras’ nationalist discourse	7
Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect	7
Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers	7
Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running	7
‘He may not be qualified in it, but I think he’s still got the knowledge’: Team-doctoring in combat sports	7
(Not) being granted the right to belong—Amateur football clubs in Germany	7
Patriotism, competition, nationalism, and respect for the military in US sports: Public recognition of American institutionalized sports nationalism	7
Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™	7
Footballers’ citizenship during COVID-19: A case study of Premier League players’ community support	7
The toponymy of sporting venues: A multinomial logistic regression analysis of football stadium names	6
The grey zone between tactics and manipulation: The normalization of match-fixing in road cycling	6
Title IX at 50: Legitimating state domination of women’s sport	6
Globalization and player recruitment: How teams from European top leagues broker migration flows of footballers in the global transfer network	6
Paddling with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Exploring the moving body in sport	6
Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis	6
Sport, gender, and national interest during the Olympics: A comparative analysis of media representations in Central and Eastern Europe	6
The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance: Views of representation and their implications for board composition	5
U.S. Women's Sport Consumption and Self-Identified Fandom: An Exploration of Social Structural and Sociocultural Antecedents	5
Athletic naturalisation, nationality and nationalism – Naturalised players in Hong Kong’s representative (national) football team	5
Chinese women skateboarders in Hong Kong: A skatefeminism approach	5
Tokyo 2020 Olympics sustainability: An elusive concept or reality?	5
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital	5
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England	5
From non-runner to parkrunner: Subjective athletic identity and experience of parkrun	5
Waiting or Acting? The Gender Gap in International Football Success	5
What’s in a name? Between “Chinese Taipei” and “Taiwan”: The contested terrain of sport nationalism in Taiwan	5
Challenges to the role of media in reporting sport corruption: Insights from reporters in Balkan countries	5
Swimming as self-care – A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women	4
‘All Avatars Aren't We’: Football and the experience of football-themed digital content during a global pandemic	4
‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals	4
Cosmopolitans and communitarians: A typology of football fans between national and European influences	4
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?	4
Granting the privilege to grunt: Reconceptualizing the perception of grunting in gyms	4
Who leads The Last Dance?	4
Sport omnivorism: Social stratification of sports practice in Chile	4
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football	4
Odds-wise view: Whose ideas prevail in the global integrity campaigns against match-fixing?	4
Athlete activism and the role of personal and professional positionality: The case of Naomi Osaka	4
‘Boys, when they do dance, they have to do football as well, for balance’: Young men’s construction of a sporting masculinity	4
Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes’ consent practices within combat sports	4
Communication network analysis to advance mapping ‘sport for development and peace’ complexity: Cohesion and leadership	3
Examining the fabrics of match-fixing: The underground sport betting system	3
The attitudes of collegiate coaches toward gay and lesbian athletes in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China	3
Racist Stacking in Professional Soccer in Germany	3
Why Russians love the Olympic Games: How individual values and nationalism motivate attitudes towards the Olympics	3
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance	3

If things go South: The renewed policy of sport mega events allocation and its implications for future research	3
Sport for Indigenous resurgence: Toward a critical settler-colonial reflection	3
“Helmets aren’t cool”: Surfers’ perceptions and attitudes towards protective headgear	3
‘We’re all in this together’: Perspectives from within the Gulf Cooperation Council Women’s Games	3
The dancefloor is now open: A dispositional analysis of the glocalization and sportification of Chinese DanceSport	3
Defining ‘woman': A governmentality analysis of how protective policies are created in elite women's sport	3
How gender affects the newsworthiness of sports news on German TV: An application of the news-factors approach to understanding gender-biased sports news presentation	3
African footballers’ wives: “Those paid dollars and pounds, their head is not five!”	3
Corruption in sports: Lessons from Montenegro	3
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation	3
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	3
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity	3
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals	3
Sexual minority prevalence and attitudes within the British horseracing industry	3
Television commentary on women's and men's Australian Rules football: A thematic analysis	3
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods	3
Auditory and visual sensory modalities in the velodrome and the practice of becoming a track cyclist	3
Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China: (Re)crafting contours of a metropolitan cityscape	3
“Do you find it normal to be so fat?” Weight stigma in obese gym users	3
When ‘the show’ cannot go on: An investigation into sports mega-events and responses during the pandemic crisis	3
‘It’s not like she’s from another planet’: Undoing gender/redoing policy in mixed football	3
Brazilian School Games: A globalized model for school sports policy	3
Fear of judgement and women's physical (in)activity experiences	3
When the gift is halfhearted: A socio-cultural study of ambivalence in a charity sport event	3
Kicking off: Violence, honour, identity and masculinity in Argentinian football chants	3
Responder or promoter? investigating the role of nation-state in globalization: The case of China’s strategies in the global wushu movement	2
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	2
Sport, physical activity and social health in older adults. Caring with technology in the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)	2
Moving Away: Intra-National Migration Experiences of Brazilian Men Elite Futsal Players During Youth	2
Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team	2
‘I was really, really shocked’: A sociological exploration of the transition experiences of English Youth Academy male footballers from school to work	2
Performative nationalism in Polish football stadiums and fans’ views and attitudes: Evidence from quantitative research	2
‘You can rent it for a while, but it is our house’: Sports fans’ experience of returning ‘home’ to a new multipurpose stadium	2
Aesthetic/affective norms of femininity: An obstacle to women’s performance of exercise	2
What’s in a game? A dialectic of competition and cooperation in Squid Game	2
Sport and British Jewish identity	2
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	2
‘A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman’: Feminisation in horse racing in Poland	2
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space	2
A rare dance	2
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup	2
Stabbed, shot, left to die: Christy Martin and gender-based violence in boxing	2
(Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport: A chain of legitimating and de-legitimating acts	2
Beating the buzzer: The construction of ageing hockey masculinity	2
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men	2
Mid-life Chinese women’s understandings of sporting pain and injury: A non-Western cultural analysis via the Confucian concept of ‘ren’	2
“Before I am biologically a male, I am me”: Exploring gender identity of South Korean male exotic polers	2