Sport in Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Sport in Society is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Game-based pedagogy in physical education and sports: designing rich learning environments25
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football23
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa17
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch16
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports16
How media influence is perceived by professional soccer players: a qualitative case study in Portugal15
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan15
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?14
The target of digital hegemonic masculinity: male sports journalists on Twitter14
I Run, Therefore I Am: Marathon, Body Discipline and Middle-Class Self-Identity13
Women and Sport in Asia13
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: U11
Running, Identity and Meaning: The Pursuit of Distinction through Sport11
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda10
The ‘physician-athlete’ and the development of sports medicine as a ‘very peculiar practice’10
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro10
Sports experiences of elite athletes with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorders10
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes10
Sport and parenthood9
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games9
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games9
Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers9
New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case9
Bondi Days: An Obituary Bondi Days: An Obituary , by Monty Webber. Angourie, New South Wales: Monty Webber, 2022, Pbk: US$11.25, ISBN: 979-883-63-1456-98
Introduction to the special issue—sport, the media and Ireland: intersections of gender, class and geography8
The professionalization of the role of the coach: transforming the last bastion of the Scandinavian welfare-sport model8
Sport, dominance, hegemonic culture, and rebellion: an introduction8
Volunteers’ collective memory of Youth Olympic Games: macro-level contextual understandings8
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum8
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective8
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20th century8
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden8
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media7
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity7
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–20057
Country image and satire in sport management: analyzing America through sports inSouth Park7
Credible and salient: examining frame resonance through Athlete Ally7
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories7
Sport and imperialism today: time for an(other) anti-imperialist front7
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today7
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure7
Azerbaijan on the crossroad between Eastern and Western state building: the Baku 2015 European Games and the boundaries of Europe7
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity7
‘We need a whole range of different views’: exploring the lived experiences of women leaders in Australian rules football6
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia6
The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair6
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning6
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games6
Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages6
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games6
First nation voices matter! Multi-level community consultations determine the design elements of a modified sport programme to promote healthy ageing in First Nation men6
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games6
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative6
In her own words: a refugee’s story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer6
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey6
Why sports? Sketching a typology of young people’s reasons for taking part in sports6
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions5
Cricket and climate change: an integrative review5
To trust or not to trust? Governance of multidimensional elite sport reality5
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers5
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes5
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava5
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa5
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign5
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory5
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data4
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants4
Purposeful and unintentional: Chinese adolescent golfers in the intergenerational transmission and feedback of cultural capital4
Contextual factors in sport talent identification research4
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture4
Football fans’ contestations over security: between offline and online fan spaces and channels4
Corporate social responsibility, supply chain management, and football industry: a systematic review4
The shy girl who became national team captain: a bioecological narrative of an Olympian’s life skills development4
Long-term sport participation after the Olympic Games: from ‘inspirational feelings’ to ‘inspirational effects’4
Aikido’s self-regulation and co-regulation: a promising embodied pedagogy for intercultural communication training4
Children with disability in competitive Little Athletics: a systems thinking approach to rules and law4
Global sport mega-events and local community impacts: the case of housing and redevelopment in Porto Alegre at the 2014 Men’s World Cup finals in Brazil4
Navigating fandom: how user generated content reflected the conflicting emotions of sport’s importance during COVID-194
LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf4
Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity4
The nature experiences and environmental identity of physical education teachers in Sweden and Switzerland4
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance4
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review4
Similarities and differences in male and female First Nations hockey players’ experiences of moving away from their home communities to play elite hockey in the Canadian mainstream context4
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 20323
Can overcoming issues of gender be an Olympic legacy (Commentary): a need for comprehensive change3
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media3
The politics of East Asian Olympics: a post event review of PyeongChang 2018, Tokyo 2020, and Beijing 20223
The walks often give me a reason to get up and get out in the morning rather than hiding. Towards sustainable community-health enhancing interventions3
The Covid-19 pandemic and Asian Football Confederation match officials3
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea3
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture3
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures3
Team performance and gendered parenthood in horse-riding activities for young children3
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization3
Injury videos and the affective potentials of user-generated sports highlights3
Consuming esports and trash talking: how do social norms and moderating attributes influence behaviour?3
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies3
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University3
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement3
The economic and regulatory differences between professional football and ice hockey in Switzerland3
From a dark place to a blue space: open water swimming transformed our lives3
The competent child and (in)competent others. Horse-riding school activities for preschool children3
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking3
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs3
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup3
Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 20223
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis3
Exploring the social mediatization of action sports communities in South Korea2
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows2
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press2
The Jersey of modernity: post-national masculinity and South Asian English Premier league football fans2
Skateboarders of color and the (co-)emergence of the DIY ethos in skateboarding2
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study2
A Star is Born: An analysis of the media construction of Linda Caicedo’s sporting star status in Colombia2
Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century2
New conceptual apparatus for political orientation in relation to sporting mega-events – case: the World Cup in Qatar 20222
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy2
‘Girls on the field’ in Turkey: negotiating gender anxieties and norms through football2
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling2
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts2
Race, gender and MMA fandom – imagining Asian masculinities in the online forum of the UFC fan club2
Researching women in sport development: an intersectional approach2
Naturalised athletes as national icons: official and netizen narratives of Eileen Gu in the 2022 Winter Olympics2
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media2
Football, faith and family for the Australian Pacific Island diaspora: the role of the vā (‘space between’) in rugby league2
Entrepreneurs’ perceptions of official sporting events’ capacity to promote their business in the long term2
Conceptualising the notion of the ‘sport worker’ and ‘sport/s work’: a commentary2
The intersectionality of the sports labour market and gender inequality in South Korea2
Esports: an exploration of the advancing esports landscape, actors and interorganisational relationships2
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming2
‘Operación Feria’ : a critical analysis of body discourses on Instagram2
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa2
On coaching and the ethics of care: a psychodynamic approach2
Bondi Beach : Representations of an iconic Australian2
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’2
Let her surf: the politics of homotransphobia in surfing2
Stories in photos: framing styles of women athlete images on Instagram2
Exploring the nexus of business and sport and its impact on society2
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport2
Win-win cooperation: a review of parent-coach cooperation in sport parenting2
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America2
Should it be “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan”? A strategic relations analysis of name rectification referendum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games2
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship2
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences2
Understanding the 2021 Australian Open through an Elias lens: a case of tension, conflict and athlete outsiders2
From the Berlin Olympics marathon to a park in Seoul: Sohn Kee-Chung and the construction of sports heritage in South Korea2
A Critical Realist Theory of Sport A Critical Realist Theory of Sport , by Graham Scambler. United Kingdom, Routledge, 2023, p. 188, £120.00 (hardcover); £34.99 (paperba2
Dressed for success or undermining the achievement? Material culture of recreational sporting events for women in Sweden2
Organized sport engagement interventions for female adolescents: a systematic review using the Youth Sport System2
Parent-spectators’ misbehaviour in grassroots football: an explorative qualitative study2
Kick like a girl: a qualitative exploration into community perspectives surrounding the Women’s Australian Football League2
Professionalisation of sport coaching from a Scandinavian horizon: an introduction2
Soccer, the Saarland, and statehood: win, loss, and cultural reunification in post-war Europe2
Lifting weights, raising voices: an analysis of reactions to Hidilyn Diaz’s views on the South China Sea issue after her Olympic gold medal win2
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo2
‘We sacrifice our bodies for this plank of wood’: girl skateboarders, risk, pain, and injury 12
An explanatory model of the influence of consumer exposure to sport sponsoring event2
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital2
Change or continuity? The impact of New Labour’s modernisation programme on grassroots football within Hampshire2
‘Complaining’, ‘campaigning’, and everything in between: media coverage of pay equity in women’s tennis in 1973 and 20072
Uniting, disuniting and reuniting: towards a ‘United’ 20262
Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland2
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