| Race and resistance: A typology of African American sport activism JN Cooper, C Macaulay, SH Rodriguez International Review for the Sociology of Sport 54 (2), 151-181, 2019 | 222 | 2019 |
| Excellence beyond athletics: Best practices for enhancing black male student athletes' educational experiences and outcomes JN Cooper Equity & Excellence in Education 49 (3), 267-283, 2016 | 143 | 2016 |
| A critical race theory analysis of big-time college sports: Implications for culturally responsive and race-conscious sport leadership JN Cooper, A Nwadike, C Macaulay Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics 10 (1), 33, 2017 | 118 | 2017 |
| The transfer effect: A critical race theory examination of Black male transfer student athletes’ experiences JN Cooper, B Hawkins Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 7 (1), 80-104, 2014 | 103 | 2014 |
| Personal troubles and public issues: A sociological imagination of Black athletes’ experiences at predominantly White institutions in the United States JN Cooper Sociology Mind 2 (03), 261, 2012 | 100 | 2012 |
| Overcoming the odds: First-generation Black and Latino male collegians’ perspectives on pre-college barriers and facilitators EM Hines, JN Cooper, M Corral Journal for Multicultural Education 13 (1), 51-69, 2019 | 95 | 2019 |
| A call for culturally responsive transformational leadership in college sport: An anti-ism approach for achieving equity and inclusion JN Cooper, ACI Newton, M Klein, S Jolly Frontiers in Sociology 5, 65, 2020 | 92 | 2020 |
| Not so black and white: A multi-divisional exploratory analysis of male student-athletes’ experiences at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institutions JN Cooper, TJ Davis, S Dougherty Sociology of Sport Journal 34 (1), 59-78, 2017 | 84 | 2017 |
| The state of intercollegiate athletics at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Past, present, & persistence JN Cooper, JK Cavil, G Cheeks Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics 7 (1), 22, 2014 | 82 | 2014 |
| Success through community cultural wealth: Reflections from Black female college athletes at a historically Black college/university (HBCU) and a historically White institution … JN Cooper, CJ Porter, TJ Davis Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 10 (2), 129-156, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Understanding black male student athletes’ experiences at a historically black college/university: A mixed methods approach JN Cooper, J Hall Journal of Mixed Methods Research 10 (1), 46-63, 2016 | 71 | 2016 |
| A place of opportunity: Black male student athletes’ experiences at a historically Black university JN Cooper, B Hawkins Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 5 (2), 170-188, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| “I’m running so you can be happy and I can keep my scholarship”: A comparative study of Black male college athletes’ experiences with role conflict JN Cooper, JE Cooper Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 8 (2), 131-152, 2015 | 68 | 2015 |
| Allyship as activism: Advancing social change in global sport through transformational allyship S Jolly, JN Cooper, Y Kluch European Journal for Sport and Society 18 (3), 229-245, 2021 | 62 | 2021 |
| An anti-deficit perspective on black male student athletes’ educational experiences at a historically black college/university JN Cooper, B Hawkins Race Ethnicity and Education 19 (5), 950-979, 2016 | 60 | 2016 |
| From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under) Development Through Sport and JN Cooper Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2019 | 57 | 2019 |
| Critical race theory: Black athletic sporting experiences in the United States BJ Hawkins, AR Carter-Francique, JN Cooper Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017 | 56 | 2017 |
| Does Race Still Matter?: A Post Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Era Examination of Student Athletes' Experiences at a Division I Historically Black College/University (HBCU) and … JN Cooper, S Dougherty Journal of issues in intercollegiate athletics 8, 2015 | 56 | 2015 |
| Autoethnography as a critical approach in sport management: Current applications and directions for future research JN Cooper, RS Grenier, C Macaulay Sport Management Review 20 (1), 43-54, 2017 | 48 | 2017 |
| A racial reckoning in a racialized organization? Applying racialized organization theory to the NCAA institutional field ACI Keaton, JN Cooper Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics 15 (1), 4, 2022 | 42 | 2022 |
