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2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
76
Citations
24800
World Ranking
206
National Ranking
11

Bob McKercher publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bob McKercher sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 272 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Bob McKercher D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bob McKercher sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Bob McKercher is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of tourism research. Their primary research spans social sciences and business, management, and accounting, with numerous publications in these domains.

The subfields in which Bob McKercher has produced work include sociology and political science, transportation, tourism, leisure and hospitality management, social psychology, and demography.

The main topics covered in their research encompass diverse aspects of tourism research, cruise tourism development and management, hospitality and tourism education, recreation, leisure and wilderness management, sport and mega-event impacts, religious tourism and spaces, and tourism, volunteerism, and development.

Frequent coauthors with whom Bob McKercher has collaborated are Bruce Prideaux, Hilary du Cros, Denis Tolkach, Aaron Tkaczynski, and IpKin Anthony Wong.

Bob McKercher has a strong presence in several scholarly venues, including:

  • Tourism Review
  • Tourism Recreation Research
  • Tourism Management
  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • International Journal of Tourism Research

Significant book publications authored by Bob McKercher have been released by Goodfellow Publishers eBooks and Goodfellow Publishers Ltd eBooks. The titles include Tourism Theories, Concepts and Models (2020) and Understanding Tourism (2024).

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Bob McKercher are:

  • Cultural tourism market: a perspective paper, 2020, Tourism Review
  • Travel by Chinese: a generational cohort perspective, 2020, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
  • Choosing the Optimal Segmentation Technique to Understand Tourist Behaviour, 2022, Journal Of Vacation Marketing

Other notable publications by collaborators in related fields include works such as From tourism and disability to accessible tourism: a perspective article (2020) published in Tourism Review, and Reflecting on tourism and COVID-19 research (2022) featured in Tourism Recreation Research.

Best Publications

  • Cultural Tourism: The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management

    Bob McKercher;Hilary du Cros

  • Incorporating local and international cuisines in the marketing of tourism destinations: The cases of Hong Kong and Turkey

    Bendegul Okumus;Fevzi Okumus;Bob McKercher

  • Towards a classification of cultural tourists

    Bob McKercher

  • Modeling Tourist Movements: A Local Destination Analysis

    Alan Lew;Bob McKercher

  • Testing a cultural tourism typology

    Bob McKercher;Hilary du Cros

  • A chaos approach to tourism

    Bob McKercher

  • Tourism and online photography

    Iris Sheungting Lo;Bob McKercher;Ada Lo;Catherine Cheung

  • TRAVELING WITH A DISABILITY More than an Access Issue

    Matthew Kwai-sang Yau;Bob McKercher;Tanya L. Packer

  • Relationship between tourism and cultural heritage management: evidence from Hong Kong

    Bob McKercher;Pamela S.Y. Ho;Hilary du Cros

  • Food Tourism as a Viable Market Segment: It's All How You Cook the Numbers!

    Bob McKercher;Fevzi Okumus;Bendegul Okumus

  • Some Fundamental Truths About Tourism: Understanding Tourism's Social and Environmental Impacts

    Bob McKercher

  • Exploration Versus Acquisition: A Comparison of First-Time and Repeat Visitors

    Anita L. S. Lau;Bob McKercher

  • Rating tourism and hospitality journals

    Bob McKercher;Rob Law;Terry Lam

  • Travel agents as facilitators or inhibitors of travel: perceptions of people with disabilities.

    Bob McKercher;Tanya Packer;Matthew K. Yau;Patrick Lam

  • Hotel location and tourist activity in cities

    Noam Shoval;Bob McKercher;Erica Ng;Amit Birenboim

  • Understanding Tourist Movement Patterns in a Destination: A GIS Approach:

    Gigi Lau;Bob McKercher

  • Achieving voluntary reductions in the carbon footprint of tourism and climate change

    Bob McKercher;Bruce Prideaux;Catherine Cheung;Rob Law

  • Movement patterns of tourists within a destination.

    Bob Mckercher;Gigi Lau

  • The Over-Reaction to SARS and the Collapse of Asian Tourism.

    Bob McKercher;Kaye Chon

  • First and Repeat Visitor Behaviour: GPS Tracking and GIS Analysis in Hong Kong

    Bob McKercher;Noam Shoval;Erica Ng;Amit Birenboim

  • The unrecognized threat to tourism: Can tourism survive ‘sustainability’?

    Bob McKercher

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Prideaux
Bruce Prideaux Central Queensland University
Noam Shoval
Noam Shoval Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alan A. Lew
Alan A. Lew Northern Arizona University
Rob Law
Rob Law University of Macau
IpKin Anthony Wong
IpKin Anthony Wong University of Macau
Seongseop Sam Kim
Seongseop Sam Kim Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Simon Darcy
Simon Darcy University of Technology Sydney
Alexandra Coghlan
Alexandra Coghlan Griffith University
Fevzi Okumus
Fevzi Okumus University of South Carolina
Catherine Cheung
Catherine Cheung Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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