| An introduction to the sociology of sports mega-events J Horne, W Manzenreiter The sociological review 54 (2_suppl), 1-24, 2006 | 755 | 2006 |
| Sports mega-events: social scientific analyses of a global phenomenon. J Horne, W Manzenreiter | 416 | 2006 |
| Accounting for mega-events: forecast and actual impacts of the 2002 Football World Cup Finals on the host countries Japan/Korea JD Horne, W Manzenreiter International review for the sociology of sport 39 (2), 187-203, 2004 | 348 | 2004 |
| The Beijing games in the western imagination of China: The weak power of soft power W Manzenreiter Journal of Sport and Social issues 34 (1), 29-48, 2010 | 307 | 2010 |
| Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup J Horne, W Manzenreiter Routledge, 2013 | 177 | 2013 |
| Football goes east W Manzenreiter, J Horne Business, culture and the people’s game in China, Japan and South Korea, 2004 | 76 | 2004 |
| Playing the post-Fordist game in/to the Far East: The footballisation of China, Japan and South Korea W Manzenreiter, H John Globalised Football, 122-138, 2013 | 69 | 2013 |
| Global governance in world sport and the 2002 World Cup Korea/Japan W Manzenreiter, J Horne Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, 1-25, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
| The ‘benefits’ of hosting: Japanese experiences from the 2002 Football World Cup W Manzenreiter Asian Business & Management 7, 201-224, 2008 | 54 | 2008 |
| The World Cup and television football J Horne, W Manzenreiter Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, 195-212, 2013 | 52 | 2013 |
| Japanese football and world sports: raising the global game in a local setting W Manzenreiter Japan Forum 16 (2), 289-313, 2004 | 48 | 2004 |
| Sport and body politics in Japan W Manzenreiter Routledge, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
| Public policy, sports investments and regional development initiatives in Japan W Manzenreiter, J Horne The political economy of sport, 152-182, 2005 | 45 | 2005 |
| Football diplomacy, post-colonialism and Japan's quest for normal state status W Manzenreiter Sport in Society 11 (4), 414-428, 2008 | 42 | 2008 |
| Sport spectacles, uniformities and the search for identity in late modern Japan W Manzenreiter The Sociological Review 54 (2_suppl), 144-159, 2006 | 37 | 2006 |
| Football in the reconstruction of the gender order in Japan W Manzenreiter Football: From England to the World, 78-92, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Japan’s new ruralities: Coping with decline in the periphery W Manzenreiter, R Lützeler, S Polak-Rottmann Routledge, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
| Life course, happiness and well-being in Japan BG Holthus, W Manzenreiter Routledge, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| Introduction: Governance, citizenship and the new European Football Championships: the European spectacle W Manzenreiter, G Spitaler Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships, 1-14, 2013 | 30* | 2013 |
| Happiness and the good life in Japan W Manzenreiter, BG Holthus Routledge, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
