Adam Karg

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Adam Karg is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam Karg has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 38 papers in Gender Studies and 19 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Adam Karg's work include Sports, Gender, and Society (38 papers), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (33 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (15 papers). Adam Karg is often cited by papers focused on Sports, Gender, and Society (38 papers), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (33 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (15 papers). Adam Karg collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Adam Karg's co-authors include Daniel Lock, Heath McDonald, Kevin Filo, ‬Hadi Ghaderi, Emma Sherry, Civilai Leckie, Katie Rowe, Daniel C. Funk, Thilo Kunkel and David Shilbury and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Social Indicators Research and Business Horizons.

In The Last Decade

Adam Karg

53 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Sport and social media research: A review 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2021 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sport and social media research: A review
    2014 408 citations Adam Karg et al. Sport Management Review profile →
  2. Prospecting non-fungible tokens in the digital economy: Stakeholders and ecosystem, risk and opportunity
    2021 187 citations Adam Karg et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adam Karg Australia 18 909 611 356 336 134 62 1.3k
Christos Anagnostopoulos Norway 23 957 1.1× 586 1.0× 245 0.7× 294 0.9× 172 1.3× 79 1.4k
Pola B. Gupta United States 14 612 0.7× 230 0.4× 88 0.2× 1.0k 3.0× 173 1.3× 25 1.4k
Aron M. Levin United States 17 489 0.5× 150 0.2× 120 0.3× 819 2.4× 192 1.4× 26 1.2k
Juha Munnukka Finland 18 1.2k 1.3× 183 0.3× 60 0.2× 886 2.6× 318 2.4× 36 1.7k
Fred Bronner Netherlands 19 1.8k 1.9× 102 0.2× 133 0.4× 978 2.9× 341 2.5× 29 2.1k
Martin Benkenstein Germany 19 779 0.9× 116 0.2× 81 0.2× 729 2.2× 507 3.8× 37 1.3k
Rupashree Baral India 21 548 0.6× 161 0.3× 87 0.2× 86 0.3× 532 4.0× 58 1.3k
Thomas W. Whipple United States 18 280 0.3× 466 0.8× 73 0.2× 502 1.5× 302 2.3× 43 1.4k
Traci H. Freling United States 12 839 0.9× 97 0.2× 58 0.2× 984 2.9× 321 2.4× 16 1.4k
Barbara Ross Wooldridge United States 15 411 0.5× 96 0.2× 40 0.1× 382 1.1× 207 1.5× 25 922

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adam Karg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adam Karg

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Karg, Adam, et al.. (2025). Affective Judgement of a Sense of Social Connection: A Scale Refinement Process. Social Indicators Research. 179(1). 399–421.
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Karg, Adam, et al.. (2025). Applying Experience Sampling Methods in Leisure Research Contexts. Leisure Sciences. 1–20.
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Heckel, Leila, Adam Karg, Rochelle Eime, Heath McDonald, & Ian O’Boyle. (2025). Physical activity and perceived wellbeing benefits in users of aquatic leisure and recreation centres. Leisure Studies. 1–16.
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Karg, Adam, et al.. (2024). Who churns from fitness centres? Evidence from behavioural and attitudinal segmentation. Managing Sport and Leisure. 31(2). 388–404. 1 indexed citations
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Karg, Adam, et al.. (2024). Mandating Women Board Members in Sport Organizations: Change via Coercive Institutional Pressure. Journal of Sport Management. 38(6). 411–425. 3 indexed citations
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Karg, Adam, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical grippers based on the tuning of surface forces for applications in micro- and nanorobotics. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7885–7885. 2 indexed citations
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Karg, Adam, et al.. (2023). Exploring the interplay between attitudinal and behavioural determinants of fitness centre member retention. Managing Sport and Leisure. 31(2). 316–335. 1 indexed citations
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Eime, Rochelle, Jack Harvey, Adam Karg, et al.. (2023). Motivations to be active in club-based sport compared to fitness centres. Managing Sport and Leisure. 31(2). 265–282. 8 indexed citations
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Shilbury, David, et al.. (2023). Sport Management in Australia. 2 indexed citations
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Kunkel, Thilo, Adam Karg, & Heath McDonald. (2022). The Utility of a Single-Item Self-Perception Fandom Measure for Sport Consumer Segmentation and Predicting Behavior. Sport Marketing Quarterly. 31(2). 141–156. 9 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Jeremy, Adam Karg, Abbas Valadkhani, & Heath McDonald. (2021). Predicting individual event attendance with machine learning: a ‘step-forward’ approach. Applied Economics. 54(27). 3138–3153. 12 indexed citations
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Breitbarth, Tim, et al.. (2021). The (un)level playing field: sport media during COVID-19. European Sport Management Quarterly. 22(1). 55–71. 17 indexed citations
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Karg, Adam, Ali Tamaddoni, Heath McDonald, & Michael T. Ewing. (2021). Predicting Season Ticket Holder Retention Using Rich Behavioral Data. Journal of Sport Management. 35(5). 426–439. 10 indexed citations
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Shilbury, David, et al.. (2020). Sport Management in Australia. 10 indexed citations
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Kunkel, Thilo, et al.. (2019). Built to last: relationship quality management for season ticket holders. European Sport Management Quarterly. 20(3). 364–384. 26 indexed citations
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Karg, Adam, Heath McDonald, & Civilai Leckie. (2019). Channel Preferences Among Sport Consumers: Profiling Media-Dominant Consumers. Journal of Sport Management. 33(4). 303–316. 19 indexed citations
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McDonald, Heath, Adam Karg, & Civilai Leckie. (2014). Predicting which season ticket holders will renew and which will not. European Sport Management Quarterly. 14(5). 503–520. 45 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Sheila, et al.. (2014). ‘Game, Set, Match’: An exploration of congruence in Australian disability sport sponsorship. Sport Management Review. 17(1). 78–89. 17 indexed citations
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Karg, Adam & Heath McDonald. (2009). Understanding experiences of fantasy sport participation. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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