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Alan A. Lew publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan A. Lew sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 197 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Alan A. Lew 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 Alan A. Lew sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan A. Lew is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Demography, Geography, Planning and Development, as well as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their main research topics cover diverse aspects of tourism research, including tourism, volunteerism, and development, religious tourism and spaces, artificial intelligence in service interactions, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and environmental education and sustainability.

Alan A. Lew has a publication record featuring multiple papers in well-regarded venues. The recent papers include:

  • From high-touch to high-tech: COVID-19 drives robotics adoption, 2020, Tourism Geographies
  • Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020, 2020, Tourism Geographies
  • COVID-19 is expanding global consciousness and the sustainability of travel and tourism, 2020, Tourism Geographies
  • The global consciousness path to sustainable tourism: a perspective paper, 2020, Tourism Review
  • Cultural ecosystem services and placemaking in peripheral areas: a tourism geographies agenda, 2022, Tourism Geographies

Their collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Joseph M. Cheer, Adriana Galvani, María Sotelo Pérez, Zhanjing Zeng, and Po-Ju Chen, indicating a broad engagement within the field of tourism research and related social sciences.

The venues publishing their work are diverse but centered around tourism studies and geography, including:

  • Tourism Geographies
  • Tourism Review
  • European Journal of Geography

Best Publications

  • A framework of tourist attraction research

    Alan A. Lew

  • Modeling Tourist Movements: A Local Destination Analysis

    Alan Lew;Bob McKercher

  • Sustainable Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

    Colin Michael Hall;Alan A. Lew

  • Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: An Integrated Approach

    C. Michael Hall;Alan A. Lew

  • From high-touch to high-tech: COVID-19 drives robotics adoption

    Zhanjing Zeng;Po Ju Chen;Alan A. Lew

  • Tourism Geography: Critical Understandings of Place, Space and Experience

    Stephen Williams;Alan A. Lew

  • Scale,change and resilience in community tourism planning

    Alan August Lew

  • Tourism planning and place making: place-making or placemaking?

    Alan A. Lew

  • Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020

    Alan A. Lew;Joseph M. Cheer;Michael Haywood;Patrick Brouder

  • A Companion to Tourism

    Alan A. Lew;C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall;Allan M. Williams

  • Community sustainability and resilience: similarities, differences and indicators

    Alan A. Lew;Pin T. Ng;Chin cheng (Nickel) Ni;Tsung chiung (Emily) Wu

  • Distance Decay and the Impact of Effective Tourism Exclusion Zones on International Travel Flows

    Bob Mckercher;Alan A. Lew

  • COVID-19 is expanding global consciousness and the sustainability of travel and tourism

    Adriana Galvani;Alan A. Lew;Maria Sotelo Perez

  • Trip destinations, gateways and itineraries: the example of Hong Kong

    Alan A Lew;Bob McKercher

  • Tourism and Economic Growth

    Ding Du;Alan A. Lew;Pin T. Ng;Pin T. Ng

  • Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability : Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change

    Joseph Martin Cheer;Alan A. Lew

  • Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

    Alan A Lew

  • Tourist Flows and the Spatial Distribution of Tourists

    Bob McKercher;Alan A. Lew

  • Tourism in China

    A. A. Lew;L. Yu;J. Ap;Z. Guangrui

  • Tourism: Conceptualizations, Institutions, and Issues

    C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall;Allan M. Williams;Alan A. Lew

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Michael Hall
C. Michael Hall Massey University
Allan M. Williams
Allan M. Williams University of Surrey
Bob McKercher
Bob McKercher University of Queensland
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
Dallen J. Timothy
Dallen J. Timothy Arizona State University
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott University of Waterloo
Stefan Gössling
Stefan Gössling Linnaeus University
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey

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