Karl Spracklen

Karl Spracklen publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Karl Spracklen D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karl Spracklen sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

• The Labour of Leisure

  Karl Spracklen

  122
  Citations

• Systematic Review of the Literature on Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Sport and Physical Recreation

  Jonathan Long;Kevin Hylton;Karl Spracklen;Aarti Ratna

  112
  Citations

• Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture

  Karl Spracklen

  93
  Citations

• Introduction to the special issue: Music and Tourism

  Brett Lashua;Karl Spracklen;Phil Long

  90
  Citations

• The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure

  Karl Spracklen

  86
  Citations

• Sounds and the City

  Brett Lashua;Karl Spracklen;Stephen Wagg

  85
  Citations

• 'Asians cannot wear turbans in the scrum': explorations of racist discourse within professional rugby league.

  Jonathan Long;Benjamin H Carrington;Karl Spracklen

  81
  Citations

• The Construction of Heavy Metal Identity through Heritage Narratives: A Case Study of Extreme Metal Bands in the North of England

  Karl Spracklen;Caroline Lucas;Mark Deeks

  78
  Citations

• Managing and monitoring equality and diversity in UK sport: an evaluation of the sporting equals Racial Equality Standard and its impact on organizational change.

  Karl Spracklen;Kevin Hylton;Jonathan Long

  72
  Citations

• Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport

  Karl Spracklen;Jonathan Long;Kevin Hylton

  64
  Citations

• There is (almost) no alternative: the slow ‘heat death’ of music subcultures and the instrumentalization of contemporary leisure

  Karl Spracklen

  64
  Citations

• Constructing Leisure

  Unknown

  63
  Citations

• Metal Studies? Cultural Research in the Heavy Metal Scene

  Karl Spracklen;Andy R. Brown;Keith Kahn-Harris

  62
  Citations

• Global Metal Music and Culture : Current Directions in Metal Studies

  Andy R. Brown;Karl Spracklen;Keith Kahn-Harris;Niall Scott

  58
  Citations

• Whiteness and Leisure

  Karl Spracklen

  56
  Citations

• True Norwegian Black Metal — The Globalized, Mythological Reconstruction of the Second Wave of Black Metal in 1990s Oslo

  Karl Spracklen

  48
  Citations

• Whiteness, Blackness and Settlement: Leisure and the Integration of New Migrants

  Jonathan Long;Kevin Hylton;Karl Spracklen

  46
  Citations

• Sport management issues in an era of austerity

  Daniel Parnell;Karl Spracklen;Peter Millward

  45
  Citations

• Nazi punks folk off: leisure, nationalism, cultural identity and the consumption of metal and folk music

  Karl Spracklen

  40
  Citations

• Grim Up North: Northern England, Northern Europe and Black Metal

  Caroline Lucas;Mark Deeks;Karl Spracklen

  35
  Citations