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D-Index
57
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13482
World Ranking
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National Ranking
132

Chris Gibson 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 Chris Gibson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 281 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chris Gibson 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 Chris Gibson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Cultural Economy: A Critical Review

    Chris Gibson;Lily Kong

  • Music and Tourism

    Chris Gibson;John Connell

  • Music and Tourism: On the Road Again

    Christopher R. Gibson;John Connell

  • Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place

    Gordon R Waitt;Christopher R Gibson

  • World music: deterritorializing place and identity

    John Connell;Chris Gibson

  • '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

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

    Chris Gibson;Deborah Davidson

  • Geographies of tourism: (un)ethical encounters.

    Chris Gibson

  • 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

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

    Chris Gibson;Natascha Klocker

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

    Christopher R Gibson;Natascha Klocker

  • Geographies of making Rethinking materials and skills for volatile futures

    Chontel A Carr;Christopher R Gibson

  • Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces

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

  • Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods

    Christopher R Gibson

  • Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia

    Peter Dunbar-Hall;Christopher R. Gibson

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

    Chris Gibson

  • Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia

    Christopher R Gibson;John Connell

  • Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
Lesley Head
Lesley Head University of Melbourne
Nicholas J Gill
Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter
John Connell
John Connell University of Sydney
Andrew Gorman-Murray
Andrew Gorman-Murray Western Sydney University
Gill Valentine
Gill Valentine University of Sheffield
Lily Kong
Lily Kong Singapore Management University
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia
Geoffrey M. Spinks
Geoffrey M. Spinks University of Wollongong
Marc in het Panhuis
Marc in het Panhuis University of Wollongong

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