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Journal of Sport and Social Issues Template

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About the Journal of Sport and Social Issues format

Journal of Sport and Social Issues is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Sports, Gender, and Society, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts, Sports Analytics and Performance.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inSports, Gender, and Society Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Sports Analytics and Performance American Sports and Literature Physical Education and Pedagogy
ISSN0193-7235
Citation impact (2-yr)2.37
h-index89
i10-index644
Total citations35,393
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Journal websitejss.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Sport and Social Issues per year

27
2014
18
2015
18
2016
26
2017
22
2018
35
2019
46
2020
15
2021
19
2022
13
2023
22
2024
38
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Sport and Social Issues by publication year

782
2014
371
2015
417
2016
798
2017
884
2018
621
2019
901
2020
268
2021
176
2022
75
2023
135
2024
41
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Sport and Social Issues

PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF THE SPORT FAN MOTIVATION SCALE

Daniel L. Wann · 1 Nov 1995

Factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs. However, these factors have been untested empirically, and a valid and reliable measure of sport fan motivation has been unavailable to researchers. The current two studies were an attempt to develop such a measure.…

Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flaneurs

Richard Giulianotti · 1 Feb 2002

World football (or soccer) has undergone an intensive hypercommodification over the past decade or so. This article examines the impact of this process on forms of spectator identification with top professional football clubs. Drawing upon previous analyses by Taylor and Critcher (on football) and the theories of Bryan Turner (on body culture), the article advances…

Die-Hard and Fair-Weather Fans: Effects of Identification on BIRGing and CORFing Tendencies

Daniel L. Wann, Nyla R. Branscombe · 1 Sep 1990

Previous research has demonstrated that people are capable of strategic self-presentation; they decrease the distance between themselves and successful groups with which they have only the most trivial of associations, and strive to increase the distance between themselves and groups viewed negatively as a result of some perceived failure. These two processes, termed basking-in- reflected-glory…

Youth Sports

Jay Coakley · 1 Aug 2011

There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport’s assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it. Promoted and perpetuated by sport evangelists and kindred spirits, this belief inspires the strategy of using sports to create among young people the attributes needed to…

The Positive Social and Self Concept Consequences of Sports Team Identification

Nyla R. Branscombe, Daniel L. Wann · 1 Sep 1991

As a result of increased geographic mobility, industrialization, and the like, traditional social and community ties have declined. Conversely, sports spectatorship has continued to flourish. We argue that strong identification with a specific sports team provides a buffer from feelings of depression and alienation, and at the same time, fosters feelings of belongingness and self…

Journal of Sport and Social Issues template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of Sport and Social Issues use?
Journal of Sport and Social Issues uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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