2026 Chris Gibson: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	57	1767	1587	133	124	281	13482

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

1767

1587

133

124

281

13482

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

13482

World Ranking

1767

National Ranking

133

Overview

Chris Gibson is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia, specializing in the social sciences with a significant focus on urban studies and related fields.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

Urban Planning and Governance
Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Water Governance and Infrastructure
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Mining and Resource Management
Global trade, sustainability, and social impact

Within the social sciences, their subfields of study include:

Sociology and Political Science
Urban Studies
Political Science and International Relations
Finance
Economics and Econometrics

They have authored several recent papers, some of which are:

"From backyards to balconies: cultural norms and parents' experiences of home in higher-density housing" (2020, Housing Studies)
"Deal-making, elite networks and public-private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance" (2022, Urban Studies)
"Critical minerals: rethinking extractivism?" (2023, Australian Geographer)
"Unsolicited urbanism: development monopolies, regulatory-technical fixes and planning-as-deal-making" (2020, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space)
"Theorising tourism in crisis: Writing and relating in place" (2021, Tourist Studies)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

Andrew Warren
Chris Brennan-Horley
Nicole Cook
Peta Wolifson
Dallas Rogers

Their publications appear often in venues such as:

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
Tourism Geographies
Urban Studies
Tourist Studies
Economic Geography

Chris Gibson has contributed to book publications, with titles including:

The Church's Starfish (2022) published by Bloomsbury Publishing plc
British and Irish Wild Flowers and Plants (2024) published by Princeton University Press

Best Publications

Sound Tracks: Popular Music Identity and Place

John Connell;Christopher R. Gibson

1675
Citations
Cultural Economy: A Critical Review

Chris Gibson;Lily Kong

566
Citations
Music and Tourism

Chris Gibson;John Connell

451
Citations
Music and Tourism: On the Road Again

Christopher R. Gibson;John Connell

437
Citations
Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place

Gordon R Waitt;Christopher R Gibson

412
Citations
World music: deterritorializing place and identity

John Connell;Chris Gibson

366
Citations
'We do not want to leave our land': Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of 'climate refugees'

Karen Elizabeth McNamara;Chris Gibson

351
Citations
Tamworth, Australia's 'country music capital': place marketing, rurality and resident reactions

Chris Gibson;Deborah Davidson

294
Citations
Geographies of tourism: (un)ethical encounters.

Chris Gibson

282
Citations
Knowledges of the creative economy: Towards a relational geography of diffusion and adaptation in Asia

Lily Kong;Chris Gibson;Louisa May Khoo;Anne Louise Semple

265
Citations
Academic publishing as 'creative' industry and recent discourses of 'creative economies': some critical reflections

Chris Gibson;Natascha Klocker

253
Citations
The 'cultural turn' in Australian regional economic development discourse: neoliberalising creativity?

Christopher R Gibson;Natascha Klocker

247
Citations
Geographies of making Rethinking materials and skills for volatile futures

Chontel A Carr;Christopher R Gibson

227
Citations
Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces

Michelle Duffy;Gordon R Waitt;Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Chris Gibson

227
Citations
Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods

Christopher R Gibson

226
Citations
Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia

Peter Dunbar-Hall;Christopher R. Gibson

202
Citations
Cultures at work: Why 'culture' matters in research on the 'cultural' industries

Chris Gibson

200
Citations
Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia

Christopher R Gibson;John Connell

197
Citations
Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia

Christopher R Gibson;Gordon R Waitt;Jim Walmsley;John Connell

195
Citations
The Parkes Elvis revival festival: economic development and contested place identities in rural Australia

Christopher R Brennan-Horley;John Connell;Christopher R Gibson

188
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong

Lesley Head University of Melbourne

Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter

John Connell University of Sydney

Andrew Gorman-Murray Western Sydney University

Gill Valentine University of Sheffield

Lily Kong Singapore Management University

Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia

Geoffrey M. Spinks University of Wollongong

Marc in het Panhuis University of Wollongong

External Links

Personal website of Chris Gibson Google Scholar page

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