International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Papers
(The TQCC of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist, Routledge: London, 2023; 242 pp.ISBN: 978-1-003-37092-5. £37.79 (e-book).94
Beyond the boundaries of humour: Disabled cricketers’ experiences of sledging25
Paid work in voluntary sport clubs: An oxymoron with transformative potential?22
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport: Empirical findings of a qualitative mixed methods approach22
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities21
Everyday racism in Australian community sport20
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene19
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria18
Platformed risk culture: Youth equestrians’ framings of falling off the horse on TikTok18
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer17
‘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
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media16
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity15
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens14
‘ I think I could see the turning point … people just came for good cricket ’: The Women's Big Bash League, The Hundred and female cricketers’ experience14
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport13
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England13
Exploring the “perfect physique”: Mind–body discourse in Netflix's Physical 10013
Safeguarding in sport: Toward a performative compliance of international sports federations?13
Gain by losing: Chinese elite athletes’ understanding of playing hurt and lived experience12
“Adults know what's best for children!”: A critical narrative analysis of children's participation rights in sports12
Riding between fear, hope, and trust: A study of elite cyclists’ experiences of personal data sharing on TrainingPeaks12
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming12
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture12
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States12
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport12
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.11
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?11
Book Review11
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment11
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball10
Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond10
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches10
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective10
Navigating dynamics and dilemmas in Southern African sport for development collaborations: Analyses of Global North perspectives on safe sport policy development with a framing and postcolonial lens10
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents10
‘I want my child to participate in sport, but I have no information about it’ – a study of Ukrainain refugee's parent's perspectives on their children's sport participation in Norway9
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups9
Newcomers in a neo-liberal sports world: The self-presentations of private football academies in Aotearoa New Zealand and Norway9
Sculpting the ideal body: A narrative analysis of the body profile craze in South Korea using Honneth's pathologies of recognition9
‘But she’s not even trans!’: A rhetorical analysis of ‘liberal feminist’ defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations9
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer9
Necropolitical institutions and state-sanctioned violence: Critical discourse analysis of institutional response to a professional boxer's death in Quebec9
Sport and physical activity policy in Scotland: An intersectional approach to addressing inequalities8
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights8
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’8
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava8
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?8
Beyond local belonging: The socio-political construction of football fandom in Türkiye8
Book Review ShoemakerTerry D., Religions and Sports: The Basics, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2024, pp. 181., £19.99 (PBK) ISBN 97810324240268
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland8
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators8
Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’8
‘What can a Latin American country offer?’: An analysis of publications on the sociology of sport in Colombia8
"We are all Hersh": Grief, solidarity, and identity in a football fan community8
Sharing gifts: The modus narrandi of athletes’ and former athletes’ interests in supporting sport for development and peace programmes in Brazil8
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment7
Drive to Survive and symbolic capital in Formula One7
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics7
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?7
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity7
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram7
Symbolic capital and the social construction of cricketer brand value7
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships7
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia7
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance6
‘I have a small window of time left that I’m going to do it’ : Transitions, risk and life-planning in the careers of mobile athletes6
Book Review6
Constructing self-identity through the spectrum of global gaze: Football and national identity in Saudi Arabia6
What constitutes bodily difference? – An ethnographic study of a provincial men's blind football team in China6
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion6
Book review6
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination6
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji6
The politicization and polarization of the Afghanistan cricket team on Twitter (X): A critical discourse analysis approach6
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians6
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run6
Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities5
Sport for development: Working with youth or youth work? A commentary5
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?5
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms5
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion5
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League4
Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters4
Athletes, support staff, and classifiers opinions on intentional misrepresentation in Para sport4
Digital selves: A cross-cultural examination of athlete social media self-presentation during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics4
Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences4
Redefining masculinities through street workout: Dynamics of hybridity and aesthetic capital4
Navigating the playing field: Reimagining the sports industry in the face of accelerated climate change4
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union4
Breaking the mold or reinforcing norms? The digital construction of female athletes’ bodies on TikTok4
European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda4
Book Review CliftBryan CBoykoffJules, Populism in Sports, Leisure, and Popular Culture, Routledge: New York, 2024; 1–289 PP. eBook: ISBN: 9781032507211. £35.69.4
“I thought we were useless”: K-skateboarding and socio-material pollution in Nanjido, Seoul4
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications4
Anti-racism industrial complex in sport4
From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players4
“It becomes a fight against who I am, rather than what I say”: Gender, positionality, and inclusion in esports leadership4
Book Review: Football Presidents: Towards a Typology of Political Cultures by Burlamaqui Luiz Guilherme and de Waele Jean-Michel BurlamaquiLuiz Guilherme4
Scandalization as catalyzer for marginalized stakeholders: The impact of the Luis Rubiales “kissing scandal” on gender relations in Spanish football4
‘Humans for sale’: Analysing The Guardian's representations of Qatar during the 2022 men's FIFA World Cup4
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