OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport in Society is 3. 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
Running, Identity and Meaning: The Pursuit of Distinction through Sport	32
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity	28
On the 8 th Day: A Catholic Theology of SportOn the 8 ^th Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport, by M. Hoven, J. J. Carney, & M. T. Engel. Cascade Books, 2022, Pbk: U	20
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa	18
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games	18
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey	17
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games	17
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro	17
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games	17
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance	15
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning	15
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory	15
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–2005	14
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures	12
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture	12
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games	12
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo	11
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media	11
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?	11
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants	11
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study	10
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement	10
What do we really know about fraud in sports? An exploratory study in Belgium	10
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods	10
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization	10

Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda	9
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood	9
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts	9
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship	9
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport	9
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies	9
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking	9
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa	9
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland	9
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy	9
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows	9
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power	8
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports	8
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group	8
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings	8
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure	8
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men	8
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media	8
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers	8
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation	7
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China	7
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres	7
Athlete participation in decision-making in elite sport: a scoping review	7
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi	7
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse	7
Global sport in the post-COVID era	7
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia	7
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia	7
Can women escape the male influence when surfing? An ethnographic study of female surfers in Southern Spain	7
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities	6
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes	6
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)	6
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions	6
Communities in movement: football and basketball in transcultural spaces	6
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History	6
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review	6
‘What should I do as a coach?’: an interview study with Swedish national team coaches about their professional practice and experiences in addressing potential health risks in elite sport	6
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup	6
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis	6
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement	6
Exposed bodies: hypersexualisation and prostitution in the scene of Brazilian female bodybuilding	5
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	5
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan	5
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	5
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment	5
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey	5
Neo-rituals under construction. How and what do the finals of the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores tell us?	5
The redefinition of a Chinese sports hero’s public image: evidence from the reactions on Chinese social media to Sun Yang’s international trial	5
Lundy’s model and beyond: exploring a girl’s perspective on participation in voluntary sports organizations	5

Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology	4
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava	4
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes	4
Women and Sport in Asia	4
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden	4
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick	4
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport	4
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis	4
Fiction or reality? What the movie une belle équipe shows about women’s football in the Hauts-de-France region	4
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20^th century	4
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure	4
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories	4
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda	4
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers	4
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports	4
The crowd management failure at 2022 champions league final: inter-organisational analysis of a collective powerlessness	4
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games	4
Sport-based social justice movements and activism: a narrative review	4
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign	4
Sport and parenthood	4
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today	4
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games	4
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture	4
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media	4
Local protests against the 2024 Olympic Games in European cities: the cases of the Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Paris 2024 bids	4
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations	4
Hooligans, ultras, activists: Polish football fandom in sociological perspective	4
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones	3
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 2032	3
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia	3
Beyond the Noise : the cultural (or subcultural) politics of Irish surf films	3
‘It’s always on’. Rituals and social structure within an international touch rugby team	3
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel	3
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs	3
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view	3
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics	3
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media	3
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs	3
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective	3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling	3
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing	3
Reflexive meanings of global and local sports culture: Chinese female sports fandom in the context of glocalization	3
Cooperation policies among public institutions for the development and dissemination of sports: a qualitative study	3
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football	3
‘We are going to the right direction… but we are not in ideal world yet’: understanding gender (in)equality within leadership positions in Nordic football governance	3
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming	3
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events	3
‘And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University	3
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences	3
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes	3
Behind the support of esports in Hong Kong: a study on public perception	3
Correction Notice	3
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology	3
Benefits and underlying mechanisms of organized sport participation on mental health among socially vulnerable boys. A qualitative study on parents’ perspective in the sport-based Icehearts programme	3
The powers that changed dutch kickboxing	3
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review	3
The new politics of sport	3
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’	3
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific	3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis	3
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports	3
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan	3