OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication & Sport 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions	30
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’	28
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study	20
A U.S. Medal Agenda? Clock-Time and Salience Analyses of Biological Sex Representation in the 2020 and 2022 NBC Olympic Telecasts	18
#Gramming Gender: The Cognizance of Equality on Instagram Accounts of Prominent NCAA Athletic Departments	16
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates: The Role of Issue and Source Involvement in Students’ Information Processing about Binge Drinking	15
“A Manifestation of Their City as a God”: Gritty Memes, the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, and Online Representations of Home	13
A Magic “Bullet”: Exploring Sport Fan Usage of On-Screen, Ephemeral Posts During Live Stream Sessions	13
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships	12
(Re)Coding the “Black Quarterback”: A 20-Year Critical Quantitative Analysis of Racial Stacking and the Mediated Dichotomy Between “Pro-Style” and “Dual-Threat”	12
Informing Future Paralympic Media Approaches: The Perspective of Canadian Paralympic Athletes	12
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?	12
This Means More: Branded Solidarity at Liverpool’s Soccer Clubs	11
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?	11
Covering the Home Nation at Its Home Games: An Analysis of Australian Nationalistic Broadcast Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games	10
“Why Can’t We Play on Grass?”: An Investigation of Discourse on Sterling Shepard’s ACL Tear	10
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero	10
“New Heights” in Storytelling?: Considerations for Cross-National Analyses of Broadcasters’ Social Media Coverage of the Paralympics	9
‘Deteriorating Our Relationship for no Good Reason’: Collegiate Beat Writers’ Perceptions of Their PR Counterparts	9
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media	9
Playing (& Smoking) by the Rules: Sport Media’s Racialized Coverage of Athlete Drug Use	9
Playoff Losses, Mayoral Politics, Image Repair, and Inoculation: Open Letter Sport Communication	9
Embracing Computational Approaches to Social Media Research: Implications for Theory and Praxis in Sport Communication	8
Determinants of Online Live Esports Viewership With Advanced Data: The Case of League of Legends Champions Korea	8
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune	8

Mental Health, College Athletics, and the Media Framing of D. J. Carton’s Announcement to Step Away From his Team	8
Dynamic Information Processing of Signage Advertising Embedded in VR-Mediated Sports Through Real-Time Eye-Tracking and Biometric Measures	7
Prolonging the Mental Health Moment: Sport, Media, and the Advancement of a More Authentic Athlete	7
Extended Reality in Esports: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Research Avenues - An Experts’ Perspective	7
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance	7
Social Media Education Provided by National Governing Bodies of Sport: An Examination of Practices for Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Games Athletes	6
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts	6
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Answering the Question on a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance and Persistence in US Sporting Representations	5
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup	5
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport	5
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics	5
Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal	5
Sport Celebrities’ COVID-19 Prevention on Social Media: The Effect of Credibility, Social Distance, Identification, and Message’s Power Style on Health Behavioral Intentions	4
Examining Sports Media Credibility, Bias, Political Identification, and Fandom Using a Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey	4
Sports Media Research in the Slovenian Context: Mapping Trends and Suggestions for the Future	4
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games	4
“Drive to Survive” Drives New Fans to Formula 1? Studying Viewer Experiences of a Sports Documentary and Its Influence on the Sport’s Fandom	4
Cross-National News Narratives of the Paralympic Games: Computational Text Analysis of the Media Coverage in the United States and South Korea	4
Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School	4
“Willpower knows no obstacles”: Examining Neoliberal Postfeminist Messaging in Nike’s Transnational Advertisements for Women	4
Is it in the Game? Reflections of Race-Based Stereotypes in EA SPORTS FIFA 22	4
“If Those Stats Make You Mad, Then You’ve Come to the Right Place”: Theorizing a Women’s Sports Media Counterpublic	4
Changing the Esport Debate: An Upstart Establishes Firm Footing in the Sports Arena	4
Essential for the Future of the Field: Leadership and Scholarship by Women in Communication and Sport	4
“We Need to Wake Our World up”: Collegiate Athletes’ Communicative Constitution of Activism	4
Athletic Insiders or Nowhere Men?: NBC’s Primetime Television Coverage of Male Figure Skaters at the 2018 Olympic Games	4
Sports Newsrooms Versus In-House Media: Cheerleading and Critical Reporting in News and Match Coverage	3
“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	3
Extractives Companies’ Social Media Portrayals of Their Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia	3
Trolligans: Conceptual Links Between Trolling and Hooliganism in Sports and Esports	3
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange	3
Are They Really Chinese? Examining Chinese Audiences’ Emotions and Perceptions Toward Naturalized Athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics	3
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	3
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”	3
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain	3
1,001 Manuscript Data Points: The State of Communication & Sport in 2025	3
“Guarding Our National Volleyball Sheroes Against Social Media Malice”: Exploring the Rejection-Identification Process Among Chinese Women’s National Volleyball Team Fans	3
Consumer Response to Patriotic Ads for Domestic Versus Foreign Brands in Contexts of International Sporting Events: The Role of National Identity Activation and Group Emotion	3
Systematic Sexism: Women’s Sports News in a Circle of Gatekeepers and Users on Twitter	3
#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics	3
Mediatization in Times of Pandemic: How German Grassroots Sports Clubs Employed Digital Media to Overcome Communication Challenges During COVID-19	3
Let’s Watch Live Streaming: How Streamer Credibility Influences Brand Attitude in Esports Streamer Marketing	3
Just How They Drew It Up: How In-House Reporters Fit Themselves Into the Sports Media System	3
Danmu as Parasocial Audience Engagement: A Textual Analysis Based on Television Interviews With Women Athletes	3
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry	3
(S)Tumbling Blocks: Making Sense of and Creating a Model for Mental Blocks in Sport	3