OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review for the Sociology of Sport is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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).	85
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities	28
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene	24
Beyond the boundaries of humour: Disabled cricketers’ experiences of sledging	22
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport: Empirical findings of a qualitative mixed methods approach	20
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	19
‘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-fives	18
Exploring the “perfect physique”: Mind–body discourse in Netflix's Physical 100	18
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	18
Safeguarding in sport: Toward a performative compliance of international sports federations?	17
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria	16
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer	15
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England	14
Riding between fear, hope, and trust: A study of elite cyclists’ experiences of personal data sharing on TrainingPeaks	13
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media	13
“Adults know what's best for children!”: A critical narrative analysis of children's participation rights in sports	13
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport	12
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture	12
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States	12
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport	12
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming	11
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	11
Gain by losing: Chinese elite athletes’ understanding of playing hurt and lived experience	11
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?	11
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective	10

Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment	10
Necropolitical institutions and state-sanctioned violence: Critical discourse analysis of institutional response to a professional boxer's death in Quebec	10
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	10
Book Review	10
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups	10
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches	10
‘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	10
Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond	9
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball	9
Sculpting the ideal body: A narrative analysis of the body profile craze in South Korea using Honneth's pathologies of recognition	9
‘But she’s not even trans!’: A rhetorical analysis of ‘liberal feminist’ defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations	8
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights	8
Sport and physical activity policy in Scotland: An intersectional approach to addressing inequalities	8
Book Review ShoemakerTerry D., Religions and Sports: The Basics, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2024, pp. 181., £19.99 (PBK) ISBN 9781032424026	8
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	8
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators	8
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?	8
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents	8
‘What can a Latin American country offer?’: An analysis of publications on the sociology of sport in Colombia	8
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	8
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	8
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 lens	8
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer	8
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
"We are all Hersh": Grief, solidarity, and identity in a football fan community	8
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	8
Beyond local belonging: The socio-political construction of football fandom in Türkiye	8
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	7
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football	7
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	7
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	7
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics	7
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava	7
Symbolic capital and the social construction of cricketer brand value	7
The politicization and polarization of the Afghanistan cricket team on Twitter (X): A critical discourse analysis approach	7
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	7
‘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 athletes	7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	7
Drive to Survive and symbolic capital in Formula One	7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity	7
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion	7
Book review	7
Sharing gifts: The modus narrandi of athletes’ and former athletes’ interests in supporting sport for development and peace programmes in Brazil	7
Book Review	6
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji	6
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms	6
Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities	6
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians	6
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run	6
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination	6

Sport for development: Working with youth or youth work? A commentary	6
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	6
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club	6
Constructing self-identity through the spectrum of global gaze: Football and national identity in Saudi Arabia	6
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance	6
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion	6
Athletes, support staff, and classifiers opinions on intentional misrepresentation in Para sport	5
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union	5
Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters	5
Anti-racism industrial complex in sport	5
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications	5
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League	5
From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players	5