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Sports, Gender, and Society

Sports, Gender, and Society is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 21.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of gender dynamics, fan culture, and identity within the context of sports. It delves into topics such as the construction of masculinity and femininity, fan loyalty, social media interaction, and the impact of rivalry on spectator behavior.

  • Gender
  • Sport
  • Fan Culture
  • Identity
  • Social Media
  • Masculinity
  • Femininity
  • Team Loyalty
  • Rivalry
  • Spectator Behavior
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
21.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+11%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Sports, Gender, and Society research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.3k and 529 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 529 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 346 works
  4. 4 France 286 works
  5. 5 China 262 works
  6. 6 Germany 256 works
  7. 7 Canada 228 works
  8. 8 Australia 225 works
  9. 9 Brazil 161 works
  10. 10 Spain 148 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 34.4%United Kingdom: 14.2%Türkiye: 9.3%France: 7.7%6 others listed: 34.4%34%largest
United States1,280 · 34.4%United Kingdom529 · 14.2%Türkiye346 · 9.3%France286 · 7.7%6 others listed1,281 · 34.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Sports, Gender, and Society research?

By volume in 2022–2025, German Sport University Cologne publishes the most Sports, Gender, and Society research, followed by Loughborough University and University of Lausanne.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 German Sport University CologneGermany 34 works
  2. 2 Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom 33 works
  3. 3 University of LausanneSwitzerland 25 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 22 works
  5. 5 Leeds Beckett UniversityUnited Kingdom 22 works
  6. 6 Brock UniversityCanada 22 works
  7. 7 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 20 works
  8. 8 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 20 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 Deakin UniversityAustralia 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sports, Gender, and Society?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sports, Gender, and Society include Loïc Wacquant.

  1. 1 Loïc Wacquant United States 3.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Sports, Gender, and Society research done?

The largest centres of Sports, Gender, and Society research in 2022–2025 are Melbourne (Australia), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Saint Catharines and Loughborough.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Melbourne Australia 60 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 58 works
  3. 3 Istanbul Türkiye 57 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 48 works
  5. 5 Paris France 45 works
  6. 6 Moscow Russia 41 works
  7. 7 Ankara Türkiye 40 works
  8. 8 New York United States 40 works
  9. 9 Cologne Germany 38 works
  10. 10 Toronto Canada 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Saint CatharinesCA · 22.1 works34×
  2. LoughboroughGB · 34.3 works26×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sports, Gender, and Society than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sports, Gender, and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Lausanne and Loughborough University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 42.16%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Manchester Metropolitan University: 20, 53.2%University of Lausanne: 26, 25.8%Loughborough University: 33, 41.2%Liverpool John Moores University: 15, 49.7%Nottingham Trent University: 9, 51.9%Norwegian School of Sport Sciences: 14, 44.9%Leeds Beckett University: 22, 43.9%Victoria University: 10, 50.9%German Sport University Cologne: 34, 29.7%Northumbria University: 12, 30.4%Manchester Metropoli…Liverpool John Moore…Loughborough Univers…University of Lausanne
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 84.053.2%22.2×20 +159.8%
2 University of LausanneSwitzerland 76.725.8%13.8×26 +212.9%
3 Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom 74.141.2%26.2×33 -23.0%
4 Liverpool John Moores UniversityUnited Kingdom 74.149.7%18.8×15 +64.6%
5 Nottingham Trent UniversityUnited Kingdom 72.451.9%10.6×9 +163.4%
6 Norwegian School of Sport SciencesNorway 70.744.9%133.2×14 +35.1%
7 Leeds Beckett UniversityUnited Kingdom 69.843.9%53.7×22 +4.7%
8 Victoria UniversityAustralia 69.650.9%21.8×10 +85.1%
9 German Sport University CologneGermany 69.529.7%107.7×34 +42.9%
10 Northumbria UniversityUnited Kingdom 68.330.4%9.8×12 +222.5%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Sports, Gender, and Society research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sports, Gender, and Society.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.