OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Family ties and social capital among grand slam tennis champions	45
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity	29
It’s Just About Having Fun’? Interrogating the lived experiences of newcomers To Canada in introductory winter sport programmes	28
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space	27
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities	26
Book Review: Eric Dunning and the Sociology of Sport by Malcolm, D. and Waddington, I.	17
What forms of socialization lead women to stop cycling during adolescence?	16
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	16
Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes’ consent practices within combat sports	16
#Sportsball anti-fandom as identity performance on X: The case of Australian Football League Women's (AFLW)	15
How has the media's construction of a discourse of nationalism evolved? Critical discourse analysis of Korean sports nationalism through the FIFA World Cup	15
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs	15
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	15
A problem without a cause: Framing the agenda within sport for development organisations	12
Theorizing the form and impact of sport scandals	12
Black male college athlete identity: A scoping review	12
Coping within the interstices of the neoliberal sports market: Using de Certeau to analyse the migration of African mixed martial arts fighters in South Africa	12
Observations on sport and eSport from a systems theory perspective: Theoretical reflections on differentiating sport and eSport and on the functions and consequences of an integration	11
‘I was really, really shocked’: A sociological exploration of the transition experiences of English Youth Academy male footballers from school to work	11
Footballers’ citizenship during COVID-19: A case study of Premier League players’ community support	11
Book review: NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo & Beyond	11
Sports and boycott: Attitudes among Jewish Israelis	10
A typological understanding of medical support in sport: What do we know and what’s next?	10
Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach	9
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?	9

South Korean members’ experiences on the LPGA Tour: The first decade after Se Ri Pak's appearance in 1998	9
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust	8
Family first: The role of family in Māori and Pasifika professional athlete success	8
Racialisation and the inequitable experiences of racialised minority coaches in men's professional football club youth academies in England	8
Reconsidering edgework theory: Practices, experiences, and structures	7
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	7
Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study	7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	7
Mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?	7
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	7
(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology: The meaning, workings, and consequences of rational design efforts	7
Women's transnational migration through football: Possibilities, responsibilities, and respectability in Ghana	7
The Paralympics on YouTube: Alternative content creation and the digital consumption of the Paralympics	7
Fear of judgement and women's physical (in)activity experiences	6
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities	6
Sensing inclusion among visually impaired and guide runners	6
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	6
Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter	6
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist	6
Redefining masculinities through street workout: Dynamics of hybridity and aesthetic capital	6
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	6
‘I feel I must work harder and still be overlooked’ – How the implementation of video assistant referee (VAR) influences gendered recruitment and working conditions in elite football refereeing	6
The role of physiological testing for athlete development in sport: The elite athlete perspective	5
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer	5
From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	5
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	5
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria	5
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	5
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity	5
Content analysis of biological sex-specific media coverage of sport: The case of National Collegiate Athletic Association athletic department home webpages	5
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	5
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	5
Sport for Indigenous resurgence: Toward a critical settler-colonial reflection	5
‘A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman’: Feminisation in horse racing in Poland	5
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	4
The framed and contested meanings of sport mega-event ‘legacies’: A case study of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games	4
A holistic framework of power to observe constraining and enabling manifestations and outcomes of power within international Sport for Development and Peace partnerships	4
Feminine negotiations and patriarchal bargains: Contradictory resistance in women's flat track roller derby	4
Navigating the double bind – gendered attitudes towards appearance-based exercise in Finland	4
Examining the socioemotional outcomes of social justice efforts on social media users: Evidence from the NFL's Inspire Change initiatives	4
Balancing risk-taking and self-care: The ecology of athlete health behaviour during the Olympic qualification phase	4
Structuration theory investigation of elite Rugby players’ perceptions on how the transition from player to retired player impacted their significant others	4
FIFA’s utopia: An analysis of FIFA’s football for hope movement	4
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men	4
The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility	4
The political stance of Ibero-American national teams on social media towards Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup	4
‘Refugee footballers’: A socioecological exploration of forced migrants in the Italian and German elite football system	4
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran	4
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	4
The accidentology of sport in France through the prism of the legitimacy theory: A first multilevel quantitative approach	4

Erratum	4
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football	4
‘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	4
Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team	4
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	4