OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication & Sport is 4. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women’s Televised Sports, 1989–2019	52
Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism: Field Theory, Changing Boundaries and Evolving Technologies	28
Active Within Structures: Predictors of Esports Gameplay and Spectatorship	22
Fulfilling the Basic Psychological Needs of Esports Fans: A Self-Determination Theory Approach	22
The Face of Mental Health: Kevin Love and Hegemonic Masculinity in the NBA	21
Gaming Gone Viral: An Analysis of the Emerging Esports Narrative Economy	21
Understanding Sporting Social Media Brand Communities, Place and Social Capital: A Netnography of Football Fans	18
Smart Stadium as a Laboratory of Innovation: Technology, Sport, and Datafied Normalization of the Fans	15
Motivational Differences Among Viewers of Traditional Sports, Esports, and NBA 2K League	15
Cyber Racism Toward Black Athletes: A Critical Race Analysis of TexAgs.com Online Brand Community	14
Analyzing the Presence of Homosexually- Themed Language Among Association Football Fans in the United Kingdom	14
Royce White, DeMar DeRozan and Media Framing of Mental Health in the NBA	14
Challenging Hegemony Through Narrative: Centering Women’s Experiences and Establishing a Sis-Science Culture Through a Women-Only Doping Forum	13
Consuming for the Greater Good: “Woke” Commercials in Sports Media	12
Taegeuk Warriors with Blue Eyes: A Media Discourse Analysis of the South Korean Men’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team and Its Naturalized Athletes	12
“I’m Not going to the f***ing White House”: Twitter Users React to Donald Trump and Megan Rapinoe	12
Gendered Body of Turkish Bikini Fitness Athletes on Instagram	10
Shared Space: How North American Olympic Broadcasters Framed Gender on Instagram	9
Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final	9
Let’s Watch Live Streaming: How Streamer Credibility Influences Brand Attitude in Esports Streamer Marketing	9
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics	9
Prejudice in the People’s Game: A Content Analysis of Race/Ethnicity in Polish Televised Football	9
Sports Journalism Content When No Sports Occur: Framing Athletics Amidst the COVID-19 International Pandemic	9
Dimensions of Sense of Membership in a Sport Fan Community: Factors, Outcomes, and Social Capital Implications	9

Sports Newsrooms Versus In-House Media: Cheerleading and Critical Reporting in News and Match Coverage	9
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport	9
Adoption of Innovations in Digital Sports Journalism: The Use of Twitter by German Sports Journalists	8
The Gender of Sports News: Horizontal Segregation and Marginalization of Female Journalists in the Swiss Press	8
Everyone Hates the NCAA: The Role of Identity in the Evaluations of Amateurism Transgressions: A Case Study of the Chase Young Loan Scandal	7
Exploring Discourses About Race/Ethnicity in a Spanish TV Football Program	7
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: The Visibility of People With Disabilities in Brazil as a Possible Legacy	7
Media Framing of the Unified Korean Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team	7
A Magic “Bullet”: Exploring Sport Fan Usage of On-Screen, Ephemeral Posts During Live Stream Sessions	7
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics	6
Just How They Drew It Up: How In-House Reporters Fit Themselves Into the Sports Media System	6
Systematic Sexism: Women’s Sports News in a Circle of Gatekeepers and Users on Twitter	6
Side-by-Side Sports Reporters: A Between-Subjects Experiment of the Effect of Gender in Reporting on the NFL	5
Fair Go? Indigenous Rugby League Players and the Racial Exclusion of the Australian National Anthem	5
“Detrimental to the Team Dynamic”: Exploring College Student-Athlete Dissent	5
How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising	5
Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship	5
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Military-Related Remembrance Rhetoric in UK Sport: Communicating Consent for British Militarism	5
The Effect of Statistics on Enjoyment and Perceived Credibility in Sports Media	5
Rediscovering Mediatization of Sport	5
“Cutting Editors Faster Than We’re Cutting Reporters”: Influences of The Athletic on Sports Journalism Quality and Standards	5
Recontextualizing Barstool Sports and Misogyny in Online US Sports Media	4
Mediatization in Times of Pandemic: How German Grassroots Sports Clubs Employed Digital Media to Overcome Communication Challenges During COVID-19	4
Mental Health, College Athletics, and the Media Framing of D. J. Carton’s Announcement to Step Away From his Team	4
Masculinities, Media and the Rugby Mind: An Analysis of Stakeholder Views on the Relationship Between Rugby Union, the Media, Masculine-Influenced Views on Injury, and Concussion	4
“Posting More than Just a Black Square”: National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athletes’ Perceptions of the Athletic Department’s Role in Social Media, Racial Justice, and the Black Lives M	4
Media Narratives About Concussions: Effects on Parents’ Intention to Inform Their Children About Concussions	4
#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics	4