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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs	52
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 identities	19
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene	18
Book Review: Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist by Noelle K. Brigden BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Streng	17
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men	17
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria	16
‘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	16
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media	15
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
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	14
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	14
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture	13
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport	13
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	13
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport	13
Book Review	12
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	12
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches	11
‘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	11
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?	10
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment	10
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents	10
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming	10

Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond	10
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	9
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups	9
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective	9
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer	9
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball	9
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators	9
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?	8
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	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
Book Review: Religions and Sports: The Basics by Terry D. Shoemaker ShoemakerTerry D., Religions and Sports: The Basics, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2024, pp. 181., £	8
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights	8
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals	8
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	7
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava	7
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	7
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	7
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	7
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist	7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity	7
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	6
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity	6
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club	6
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	6
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion	6
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	6
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football	6
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	6
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics	6
Book Review	6
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance	5
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union	5
“It becomes a fight against who I am, rather than what I say”: Gender, positionality, and inclusion in esports leadership	5
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China	5
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians	5
Television commentary on women's and men's Australian Rules football: A thematic analysis	5
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms	5
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji	5
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications	5
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run	5
‘If you haven't got the contacts … you have no choice’: A figurational examination of unpaid work in football scouting in men's professional football in England	5
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination	5
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	5
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance	5
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion	5
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League	5
Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities	5
Book review	5
‘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	5

From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics