International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport: Empirical findings of a qualitative mixed methods approach59
Book Review: Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist by Noelle K. Brigden BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Streng25
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene20
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities20
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs19
Exploring the “perfect physique”: Mind–body discourse in Netflix's Physical 10017
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer16
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria16
‘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 media15
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity14
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture14
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens14
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England14
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States13
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport13
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport12
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?11
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming11
‘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 journals11
Book Review11
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment11
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches10
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents10
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.10
Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond10
‘But she’s not even trans!’: A rhetorical analysis of ‘liberal feminist’ defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations9
Necropolitical institutions and state-sanctioned violence: Critical discourse analysis of institutional response to a professional boxer's death in Quebec9
Sculpting the ideal body: A narrative analysis of the body profile craze in South Korea using Honneth's pathologies of recognition9
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective9
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball9
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes9
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups9
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights8
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 Scotland8
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 community8
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators8
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist8
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?8
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer8
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
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’8
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity7
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football7
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava7
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships7
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity6
Book review6
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination6
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction6
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment6
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport6
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion6
Book Review6
‘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
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia6
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics6
The politicization and polarization of the Afghanistan cricket team on Twitter (X): A critical discourse analysis approach6
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club6
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians6
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market6
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance5
Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities5
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics5
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League5
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications5
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run5
Sport for development: Working with youth or youth work? A commentary5
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China5
European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda5
“It becomes a fight against who I am, rather than what I say”: Gender, positionality, and inclusion in esports leadership5
From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players5
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms5
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji5
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion5
Navigating the playing field: Reimagining the sports industry in the face of accelerated climate change5
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union5
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?5
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