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Liz Wanless

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Sports Analytics and PerformanceSports, Gender, and SocietyBig Data and Business IntelligenceInnovation Diffusion and ForecastingDigital Marketing and Social Media

Publications

20

Citations

181

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

15

Publishing since 2012

Research summary
AI-generated

Liz Wanless studies the business and management side of sports, with a focus on how new technologies and innovations—such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing, data analytics, and renewable energy systems—spread through professional and collegiate sports organizations. Her work also examines topics like sponsorship, social media engagement, fundraising and donor relations, and financial modeling in athletics. Much of her research applies quantitative methods and analytics to understand how sports organizations operate and adopt new tools.

Sports analytics and data-driven decision makingDiffusion and adoption of innovation in sportArtificial intelligence and natural language processing in sportSport marketing and social media engagementCollegiate athletics finance and donor relations

Publication activity has been fairly steady over the past decade, averaging about two publications per year with modest year-to-year fluctuation.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 1 publication182019: 3 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 4 publications4222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 1 publication252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Sport Marketing Quarterly×3
  • Journal of Sport Management×3
  • Sports Innovation Journal×2
  • Sport Management Education Journal×2
  • Journal of applied sport management×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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