| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Knud Enemark Jensen's Death During the 1960 Rome Olympics: A Search for Truth? | Sport in History | 2005 | 41 |
| 2 | Speaking Irish with hurley sticks: Gaelic sports, the Irish language and national identity in revival Ireland | Sport in History | 2017 | 38 |
| 3 | The Legacy of Festina: Patterns of Drug Use in European Cycling Since 1998 | Sport in History | 2005 | 33 |
| 4 | The Invention of a ‘Drug of Mass Destruction’: Deconstructing the EPO Myth | Sport in History | 2011 | 29 |
| 5 | The Amateur Body and the Middle-class Man: Work, Health and Style in Victorian Britain | Sport in History | 2006 | 26 |
| 6 | Sites of Truth or Metaphors of Power? Refiguring the Archive | Sport in History | 2006 | 23 |
| 7 | History, Theory and the ‘Civilizing Process’ | Sport in History | 2005 | 22 |
| 8 | Football's Engineers? British Football Coaches, Migration and Intercultural Transfer,c.1910–c.1950s | Sport in History | 2010 | 22 |
| 9 | Cultural Continuity and Football in Nineteenth-century Lancashire | Sport in History | 2008 | 19 |
| 10 | Tennent's Lager, National Identity and Football in Scotland, 1960s–90s | Sport in History | 2012 | 19 |
| 11 | From Fixed Capacities to Performance-Enhancement: The Paradigm Shift in the Science of ‘Training’ and the Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances | Sport in History | 2005 | 16 |
| 12 | Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum | Sport in History | 2003 | 15 |
| 13 | Whose Hegemony? The Origins of the Amateur Ethos in Nineteenth Century English Society | Sport in History | 2004 | 15 |
| 14 | Hellenism and Olympism: Pierre de Coubertin and the Greek Challenge to the Early Olympic Movement | Sport in History | 2007 | 15 |
| 15 | Unknown Soldiers and Very Pretty Ladies: Challenges to the Social Order of Sports in Post-War Sweden | Sport in History | 2009 | 15 |
| 16 | “More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen…”: Culture, Hegemony and the Literaturisation of Cricket | Sport in History | 2003 | 14 |
| 17 | ‘The Best Football Team, The Best Platoon’: The Role of Football in the Proletarianization of the British Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918 | Sport in History | 2006 | 14 |
| 18 | ‘We All Agree, Name the Stand after Shankly’: Cultures of Commemoration in Late Twentieth-century English Football Culture | Sport in History | 2006 | 14 |
| 19 | Hungarian Football: A Socio-historical Overview | Sport in History | 2007 | 14 |
| 20 | ‘Managing the Media’: The Changing Relationship Between Football Managers and the Media | Sport in History | 2007 | 14 |
| 21 | Empiricist Versus Sociological History: Some Comments on the ‘Civilizing Process’ | Sport in History | 2007 | 14 |
| 22 | Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today | Sport in History | 2009 | 14 |
| 23 | The Individual and the State: A Social Historical Analysis of the East German ‘Doping System’ | Sport in History | 2011 | 14 |
| 24 | ‘War Minus the Shooting’: George Orwell on International Sport and the Olympics | Sport in History | 2013 | 14 |
| 25 | The History and Geography of a Forgotten Olympic Project: The Spring Games | Sport in History | 2010 | 13 |
| 26 | Enhancing the Odds: Horse Racing, Gambling and the First Anti-Doping Movement in Sport, 1889–1911 | Sport in History | 2012 | 12 |
| 27 | Changing Patterns of Drug Use in British Sport from the 1960s | Sport in History | 2005 | 11 |
| 28 | The Idea of the Record | Sport in History | 2006 | 11 |
| 29 | Sociological Versus Empiricist History: Some Comments on Tony Collins's ‘History, Theory and the “Civilizing Process”’ | Sport in History | 2006 | 11 |
| 30 | Surf Rhetoric in American and British Surfing Magazines Between 1965 and 1976 | Sport in History | 2007 | 11 |
| 31 | From Mixed-Sex Sport to Sport for Girls: The Feminization of Figure Skating | Sport in History | 2010 | 11 |
| 32 | Team GB, or No Team GB, That Is The Question: Olympic Football and the Post-War Crisis of Britishness | Sport in History | 2012 | 11 |
| 33 | ‘National Heroes’: Sport and the Creation of Icons | Sport in History | 2013 | 11 |
| 34 | Women Climbers 1850–1900: A Challenge to Male Hegemony? | Sport in History | 2013 | 11 |
| 35 | Historians and the History of Sport | Sport in History | 2014 | 11 |
| 36 | The Games Ethic and Industrial Capitalism Before 1914: The Provision of Company Sports | Sport in History | 2003 | 10 |
| 37 | Anabolic Steroid and Stimulant Use in North American Sport between 1850 and 1980 | Sport in History | 2005 | 10 |
| 38 | Emigrants at Play: Gaelic Games and the Irish Diaspora in Chicago, 1884–c.1900 | Sport in History | 2006 | 10 |
| 39 | Training Theory and Why Roger Bannister was the First Four-Minute Miler | Sport in History | 2006 | 10 |
| 40 | Archives, Truths and the Historian at Work: A Reply to Douglas Booth's ‘Refiguring the Archive’ | Sport in History | 2007 | 10 |
| 41 | Disabled Sport and its Relation to Contemporary Cultures of Presence and Aesthetics | Sport in History | 2008 | 10 |
| 42 | The Proto-globalisation of Horseracing 1730–1900: Anglo–American Interconnections | Sport in History | 2009 | 10 |
| 43 | ‘Ladies First’?: Establishing a Place for Women Golfers in British Golf Clubs, 1867–1914 | Sport in History | 2010 | 10 |
| 44 | The State of Play: Women in British Sport History | Sport in History | 2010 | 10 |
| 45 | Women's Euro 2005 a ‘watershed’ for women's football in England and a new era for the game? | Sport in History | 2019 | 10 |
| 46 | Revenge of the Crouch End Vampires: The AFA, the FA and English Football's ‘Great Split’, 1907–14 | Sport in History | 2006 | 9 |
| 47 | ‘Base Mechanic Arms’? British Rowing, Some Ducks and the Shifting Politics of Amateurism | Sport in History | 2006 | 9 |
| 48 | ‘An Excellent Means of Combining Fresh Air, Exercise and Society’: Females on the Fairways, 1890–1914 | Sport in History | 2009 | 9 |
| 49 | The Usual Suspect: A History of Football Violence in the State of Israel | Sport in History | 2016 | 9 |
| 50 | The up-front legacies of France 2019: changing the face of ‘le foot féminin’ | Sport in History | 2019 | 9 |
