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David A. Fennell

David A. Fennell

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
7700
World Ranking
4428
National Ranking
257

David A. Fennell 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 David A. Fennell sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David A. Fennell 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 David A. Fennell sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David A. Fennell is affiliated with Brock University in Canada and works primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Genetics, Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Ecology.

Their work concentrates on several key topics covering human-animal interaction studies, geographies of human-animal interactions, diverse aspects of tourism research, animal and plant science education, environmental education and sustainability, tourism, volunteerism, and development, as well as animal behavior and welfare studies.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Chris Cooper, Yulei Guo, Valerie Sheppard, Bastian Thomsen, and Stephen Schweinsberg.

Their papers have been published in notable venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Ecotourism
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Animals
  • Tourism and Hospitality

Key recent papers authored by David A. Fennell are:

  • Technology and the sustainable tourist in the new age of disruption (2020, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • Tourism, animals and the scales of justice (2020, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • An animal welfare literacy framework for tourism (2022, Annals of Tourism Research)
  • Animal-informed consent: sled dog tours as asymmetric agential events (2022, Tourism Management)
  • Tourism & animal suffering: Mapping the future (2021, Annals of Tourism Research)

In addition to journal papers, David A. Fennell has contributed to book publications primarily through Multilingual Matters eBooks and Channel View Publications eBooks. Their books include Sustainable Tourism (published twice in 2020 with differing citation counts) and Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness (2022).

Best Publications

  • Ecotourism: An Introduction

    David A. Fennell

  • A Content Analysis of Ecotourism Definitions

    David A. Fennell

  • Managing protected areas for sustainable tourism: prospects for adaptive co-management

    Ryan Plummer;David A. Fennell

  • The Ecotourium Concept and Tourism-Conservation Symbiosis

    David Fennell;David Bruce Weaver

  • An analysis of whalewatching codes of conduct.

    Brian Garrod;David A. Fennell

  • The vacation farm sector in Saskatchewan: a profile of operations

    David B Weaver;David A Fennell

  • Codes of ethics and tourism: An exploratory content analysis

    David Cruise Malloy;David A Fennell

  • Ecotourism Policy and Planning

    David A. Fennell;Ross Kingston Dowling

  • A tourist space-time budget in the Shetland Islands

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  • The context of ecotourism policy and planning.

    Ross Dowling;David Fennell

  • Measuring the ethical nature of tourism operators

    David A Fennell;David C Malloy

  • Myth or substance: an examination of altruism as the basis of volunteer tourism.

    Alexandra Coghlan;David Fennell

  • Is adaptive co-management ethical?

    David Fennell;Ryan Plummer;Melissa Marschke

  • Ecotourism and the Myth of Indigenous Stewardship

    David A. Fennell

  • Tourism and Animal Ethics

    David A. Fennell

  • Evolution in tourism: the theory of reciprocal altruism and tourist-host interactions.

    David A. Fennell

  • Determinants of climate change disclosure practices of global hotel companies: Application of institutional and stakeholder theories

    Danuta de Grosbois;David A. Fennell

  • Tourism and Animal Welfare

    David A. Fennell

  • The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment

    Andrew Holden;David A. Fennell

  • Ecotourism and Ethics: Moral Development and Organizational Cultures:

    David Cruise Malloy;David A. Fennell

  • Towards a Model of Travel Fear

    David A. Fennell

  • Ecotourism Programme Planning

    David A. Fennell

  • Tourism and Animal Rights

    David A. Fennell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross K. Dowling
Ross K. Dowling Edith Cowan University
Ryan Plummer
Ryan Plummer Brock University
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
David Bruce Weaver
David Bruce Weaver Queensland University of Technology
Ralf Buckley
Ralf Buckley Griffith University
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott University of Waterloo
Erik Cohen
Erik Cohen Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Stefan Gössling
Stefan Gössling Linnaeus University
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey

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