Communication & Sport

Papers
(The H4-Index of Communication & Sport is 13. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal34
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune32
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions21
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance21
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’20
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media17
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport16
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships16
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero15
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange14
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games13
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis13
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer13
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry13
Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of its Parts? Aggregation of Sports Events as a Driver of Coverage of (the) European Championships on German TV News Shows13
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games13
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