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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games	28
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity	28
Running, Identity and Meaning: The Pursuit of Distinction through Sport	18
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	17
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity	17
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games	16
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro	15
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey	15
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa	15
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning	14
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–2005	13
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance	13
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory	13
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants	13
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games	11
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games	11
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture	11
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo	10
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures	10
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup	10
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?	10
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization	10
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media	10
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts	9
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy	9

Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study	9
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods	9
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda	9
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa	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
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement	9
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport	9
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland	8
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows	8
What do we really know about fraud in sports? An exploratory study in Belgium	8
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship	8
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men	8
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood	8
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power	7
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China	7
The Chinese and South-East Asian sports world in the 2020s	7
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers	7
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports	7
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure	7
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse	7
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media	7
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group	7
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings	7
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi	7
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions	6
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes	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
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement	6
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia	6
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation	6
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup	6
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review	6
Can women escape the male influence when surfing? An ethnographic study of female surfers in Southern Spain	6
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia	6
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities	6
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)	6
Communities in movement: football and basketball in transcultural spaces	6
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres	6
Global sport in the post-COVID era	6
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Neo-rituals under construction. How and what do the finals of the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores tell us?	5
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign	5
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	5
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis	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
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment	5
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History	5
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance	5
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	5

Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports	4
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick	4
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations	4
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan	4
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective	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
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology	4
Local protests against the 2024 Olympic Games in European cities: the cases of the Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Paris 2024 bids	4
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport	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
Sport and parenthood	4
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey	4
Hooligans, ultras, activists: Polish football fandom in sociological perspective	4
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis	4
Women and Sport in Asia	4
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers	4
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes	3
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs	3
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes	3
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan	3
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today	3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling	3
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football	3
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones	3
‘And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University	3
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’	3
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 2032	3
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava	3
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories	3
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture	3
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games	3
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming	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
An explanatory model of the influence of consumer exposure to sport sponsoring event	3
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media	3
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure	3
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports	3
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media	3
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden	3
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda	3
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences	3
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review	3
Correction Notice	3
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics	3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis	3