LabCompass

Walter Gantz

Social Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex
Established · publishing since 1973
Sports, Gender, and SocietyMedia Influence and HealthMedia Studies and CommunicationSport and Mega-Event ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Publications

78

Citations

2,543

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

53

Publishing since 1973

Research summary
AI-generated

Walter Gantz studies how people engage with sports as media audiences, examining what it means to be a fan and how fan behaviors and experiences develop. His work covers topics such as gender differences in fan viewing, emotional responses to watching sports, and how fandom changes across a person's lifetime. He also studies online and concurrent viewing behaviors and the effects of media commentary on attitudes toward women's sports.

Sports fanship and audience behaviorMedia and communication studiesGender in sports viewingEmotion and media engagementOnline and live sports viewing behaviors

Publication activity has been modest and intermittent over the past decade, with a small peak around 2021 and a low average of under one publication per year in recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

1 earlier award
  • NIH R01CA108487Sep 2004 – Aug 2006 · $73k awarded

    Coverage of Cancer in Local Television Newscasts

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 1,197 established Social Sciences PIs within our index
Citations: 2,543cohort median 1,128
h-index: 24cohort median 16
Publications / year (recent): 0.6cohort median 2.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~2 · 100% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 5 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
172018: 2 publications182019: 2 publications19202021: 3 publications3212022: 2 publications2223242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Communication & Sport×4
  • Journal of Global Sport Management×1
  • Communication Research Reports×1
  • International Journal of Sport Communication×1
  • American Behavioral Scientist×1
Similar researchers
By research-topic overlap

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

Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

Claim or correct this profile