| Sports mega-events, soft power and soft disempowerment: international supporters’ perspectives on Qatar’s acquisition of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals PM Brannagan, J Rookwood International journal of sport policy and politics 8 (2), 173-188, 2016 | 111 | 2016 |
| The hoolifan: Positive fan attitudes to football ‘hooliganism’ J Rookwood, G Pearson International review for the sociology of sport 47 (2), 149-164, 2012 | 82 | 2012 |
| Invasion games in war‐torn nations: can football help to build peace? J Rookwood, C Palmer Soccer & Society 12 (2), 184-200, 2011 | 72 | 2011 |
| The 39th game: fan responses to the Premier League’s proposal to globalize the English game J Rookwood, N Chan Soccer & Society 12 (6), 897-913, 2011 | 62 | 2011 |
| Access, security and diplomacy: Perceptions of soft power, nation branding and the organisational challenges facing Qatar’s 2022 FIFA World Cup J Rookwood Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 9 (1), 26-44, 2019 | 60 | 2019 |
| Soccer for peace and social development J Rookwood Peace Review 20 (4), 471-479, 2008 | 45 | 2008 |
| ‘We all dream of a team of Carraghers’: comparing ‘local’and Texan Liverpool fans' talk J Rookwood, P Millward Sport in Society 14 (1), 37-52, 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
| Football for peace? Bringing Jews and Arabs together in Northern Israel S Liebmann, J Rookwood Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies 1 (1), 11-18, 2007 | 33 | 2007 |
| Responding to football disorder, policing the British football fan D Stead, J Rookwood Journal of Qualitative research in sports studies 1 (1), 33-41, 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
| The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies JA Lee Ludvigsen, J Rookwood, D Parnell Sport in Society 25 (4), 705-711, 2022 | 27 | 2022 |
| The politics of ConIFA: Organising and managing international football events for unrecognised countries J Rookwood Managing Sport and Leisure 25 (1-2), 6-20, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| Violence in football (soccer): Overview, prevalence, and risk factors J Rookwood, R Spaaij The Wiley handbook of violence and aggression, 1-12, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Fan perspectives of football hooliganism: Defining, analysing and responding to the British phenomenon J Rookwood (No Title), 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
| Emerging third-sector sports organisations and navigating uncertainty in an ‘era of austerity’: a single ethnographic case study from Liverpool JA Kenyon, C Mason, J Rookwood Sport Policy and Politics in an Era of Austerity, 24-41, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| A history of the English Premier League: Cultures, consumption and commerce J Rookwood, J Hughson The English Premier League, 13-32, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Cardiff City Football Club as a vehicle to promote Welsh national identity G Rogers, J Rookwood Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies 1 (1), 57-68, 2007 | 18 | 2007 |
| Nation branding and public diplomacy: Examining Japan’s 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 (21) Olympic Games in the midst of a global economic downturn and the COVID-19 pandemic J Rookwood, K Adeosun Journal of Global Sport Management 8 (3), 573-593, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| Applying Olympic values–peace promotion through sport in Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina J Rookwood Journal of Olympic History 17 (2), 22-33, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| A photo-ethnography, a picture-story-board of experiences at an NGO football project in Liberia (part 1) J Rookwood, C Palmer Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies 3 (1), 161-186, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| Managing football hooliganism J Rookwood Critical issues in global sport management, 174-185, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
