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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity	26
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	24
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games	24
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey	22
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games	20
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa	19
The 2020 EventRights Mobility Project: investigating Atlanta’s compliance with FIFA’s human rights bidding requirement in planning and designing security and safety measures for the 2026 FIFA Men’s Wo	17
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures	15
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants	14
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media	13
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance	13
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–2005	13
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture	13
Exploring cross-cultural conceptual metaphors in Chinese and English table tennis news discourse	12
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games	12
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?	12
“What about the rest of me?”: a post-colonial and critical disability analysis of the Invictus Games docuserie s and its representation of war, injury, a	12
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo	11
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning	11
Whiteness in the production of televised football: Spanish sports journalists reflecting on race/ethnicity and diversity	10
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy	10
What do we really know about fraud in sports? An exploratory study in Belgium	10
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study	10
Leveraging Olympic champion athletes as a communication tool: a neuromarketing study	10
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows	10

Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa	9
Dark undershorts and leaking body control: a critical review of the Wimbledon all-white dress code exception	9
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization	9
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods	9
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking	9
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies	9
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement	9
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda	9
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship	9
Brand equity of football in India: an exploratory study to understand why millennials have a love hate relationship with Indian football	8
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers	8
The concept of political neutrality – where we are at? ¹	8
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings	8
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood	8
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure	8
Athlete participation in decision-making in elite sport: a scoping review	8
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland	7
Rising from irrelevance: the media framing of Brock Purdy’s rookie season in the NFL	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
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres	6
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement	6
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports	6
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China	6
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power	6
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation	6
Global sport in the post-COVID era	6
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men	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
‘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
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia	6
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions	6
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi	6
‘In any women’s sport …, it’s hard work because it’s a male dominated society’ – exploring forms of gendered media labour in relation to elite women’s cricket in England	6
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse	6
Native tongue - Indigenous language revitalisation at the nexus of professional sport and culture: how Māori and Pacific sport stars are aiding endangered languages	5
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)	5
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	5
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	5
Constitutive outsiders in and of sports: the case of transgender athletes	5
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology	5
Sport-based social justice movements and activism: a narrative review	5
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities	5
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History	5
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment	5
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis	5
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games	5
Hooligans, ultras, activists: Polish football fandom in sociological perspective	5
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand	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

Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup	5
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes	5
Exposed bodies: hypersexualisation and prostitution in the scene of Brazilian female bodybuilding	5
Lundy’s model and beyond: exploring a girl’s perspective on participation in voluntary sports organizations	5
Women and volleyball in Leap : a study of female bodies from a semiotic perspective	5
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign	5
Exploratory foray into the nexus between football and climate change in Africa	4
The crowd management failure at 2022 champions league final: inter-organisational analysis of a collective powerlessness	4
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey	4
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs	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
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories	4
The metaverse and sport fandom: revolutionising sport consumption	4
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis	4
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda	4
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations	4
Being a Chinese while fighting against China: badminton and the nationalist identity construction of Malaysian Chinese	4
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan	4
Behind the support of esports in Hong Kong: a study on public perception	4
Nationalism, market logic, and cultural tradition: a labor politics analysis of media representations of Chinese female athletes in Olympic coverage	4
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden	4
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan	4
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava	4
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport	4
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media	4
Fiction or reality? What the movie une belle équipe shows about women’s football in the Hauts-de-France region	4
Sport communication digital ecosystem development: Lega Basket Italia case study	4
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes	4
Correction	4
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports	4
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture	4
Sport and parenthood	4
Under the postcolonial global sports order: the sportification, cultural re-creation, and shifting local identity of Miaoli Bombing dragons	4
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports	3
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20^th century	3
‘And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University	3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis	3
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs	3
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review	3
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events	3
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones	3
Outsiders, underdogs and bohemians in sport: an introduction	3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling	3
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics	3
Even eagles struggle to fly: Matti Nykänen, Eddie the Eagle, and Jan Boklöv in the era of commercialisation, professionalisation, and mediatisation	3
Insiders, outsiders and allies: Inga Löwdin and the promotion of women’s international XC skiing, 1946–1960	3
Stadiums of commercial and social control: overlapping rationalities within European football’s transformation	3
The new politics of sport	3
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific	3
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences	3
Eating’s cheating and the peculiarity of male professional road cycling	3
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming	3
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media	3
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing	3
Correction	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
Correction Notice	3