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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 61 1340 1190 98 90 239 16529

David Bruce Weaver publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by David Bruce Weaver between 1981 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. David Bruce Weaver published across 45 years, from 1981 to 2025, averaging 6.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2000. 10 of the 273 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1981 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2000. 1981: 1 publication 1982: 0 publications 1983: 1 publication 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 1 publication 1992: 1 publication 1993: 3 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 2 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 18 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 25 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 7 publications 2003: 17 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 13 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 16 publications 2024: 9 publications 2025: 1 publication
1981 2025

273 publications in total across all disciplines

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David Bruce Weaver: publications per year, 1981 to 2025
Year Publications
1981 1
1982 0
1983 1
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 1
1989 0
1990 1
1991 1
1992 1
1993 3
1994 1
1995 2
1996 3
1997 4
1998 18
1999 4
2000 25
2001 4
2002 7
2003 17
2004 3
2005 6
2006 4
2007 13
2008 8
2009 8
2010 5
2011 8
2012 11
2013 10
2014 6
2015 13
2016 8
2017 12
2018 4
2019 5
2020 5
2021 11
2022 13
2023 16
2024 9
2025 1
Total 273
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David Bruce Weaver publications per year - data summary

  • David Bruce Weaver, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Queensland University of Technology, has 273 publications recorded across 45 years, from 1981 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1981 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2000, with 25 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 6 of the 45 years in the span carry no publications at all (1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 6.1 papers per year over the whole span, or 7.0 per year counting only the 39 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 50 publications, 18% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1981-1995: 12 publications (0.8 per year); 1996-2010: 129 publications (8.6 per year); 2011-2025: 132 publications (8.8 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

David Bruce Weaver 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 Bruce Weaver sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 234–243 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 239 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170 239
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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David Bruce Weaver publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • David Bruce Weaver, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Queensland University of Technology, records 239 publications - the 76th percentile of the discipline.
  • 76% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than David Bruce Weaver, and about 24% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and David Bruce Weaver ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

David Bruce Weaver 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 Bruce Weaver sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 61 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86 61
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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David Bruce Weaver D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • David Bruce Weaver, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Queensland University of Technology, records 61 D-Index - the 83rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 83% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than David Bruce Weaver, and about 17% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and David Bruce Weaver ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Overview

David Bruce Weaver is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, particularly within the subfields of sociology and political science, molecular biology, computational mechanics, plant science, and tourism, leisure, and hospitality management.

The researcher's work focuses on diverse aspects of tourism research, addressing topics such as sport and mega-event impacts, mitochondrial function and pathology, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, vibration and dynamic analysis, environmental sustainability in business, and cruise tourism development and management.

Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Sustainable Tourism with seven publications, the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology with five, followed by the Journal of Travel Research with four, Annals of Tourism Research with three, and Tourism Management with three publications.

Some recent papers authored by or involving David Bruce Weaver include:

  • The adaptive resilience of living cultural heritage in a tourism destination (2020, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • Are we really progressing sustainable tourism research? A bibliometric analysis (2020, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • Adapt to not just survive but thrive: resilience strategies of five-star hotels at difficult times (2021, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management)
  • Are water-centric themes in sustainable tourism research congruent with the UN Sustainable Development Goals? (2021, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • Facilitating sustainable tourism by endogenization: China as exemplar (2020, Annals of Tourism Research)

David Bruce Weaver has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Brent Moyle, Char-lee McLennan, Gian Luca Casali, György Hajnóczky, and Marwan Hassan.

Best Publications

  • Ecotourism in the less developed world

    David Bruce Weaver

  • Sustainable Tourism : Theory and Practice

    David B. Weaver

  • Twenty years on: The state of contemporary ecotourism research

    David Bruce Weaver;Laura J. Lawton

  • Principles of ecotourism.

    R. K. Blamey;D. B. Weaver

  • The Encyclopedia of Ecotourism

    David B. Weaver

  • Resident Perceptions in the Urban–Rural Fringe

    David Bruce Weaver;Laura Jane Lawton

  • Comprehensive and Minimalist Dimensions of Ecotourism

    David B. Weaver

  • Ecotourism as mass tourism: contradiction or reality?

    David Bruce Weaver

  • Overnight Ecotourist Market Segmentation in the Gold Coast Hinterland of Australia

    David B. Weaver;Laura J. Lawton

  • Can sustainable tourism survive climate change

    David Bruce Weaver

  • Sustainable Tourism Futures: Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring and Innovations

    Stefan Gossling;C. Michael Hall;David Bruce Weaver

  • Magnitude of ecotourism in Costa Rica and Kenya

    David B. Weaver

  • Organic, incremental and induced paths to sustainable mass tourism convergence

    David Bruce Weaver

  • A broad context model of destination development scenarios

    David Bruce Weaver

  • The Ecotourium Concept and Tourism-Conservation Symbiosis

    David Fennell;David Bruce Weaver

  • Alternative to mass tourism in Dominica

    David B. Weaver

  • Peripheries of the periphery: Tourism in Tobago and Barbuda

    D.B. Weaver

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

    David B Weaver;David A Fennell

  • Developing indicators for destination sustainability.

    E. Sirakaya;T. B. Jamal;H. S. Choi;D. B. Weaver

  • THE EVOLUTION OF A ‘PLANTATION’ TOURISM LANDSCAPE ON THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF ANTIGUA

    David B. Weaver

  • Progress in tourism management Twenty years on: The state of contemporary ecotourism research

    David B. Weaver;Laura J. Lawton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Buckley
Ralf Buckley Griffith University
Catherine Marina Pickering
Catherine Marina Pickering Griffith University
Stefan Gössling
Stefan Gössling Linnaeus University
C. Michael Hall
C. Michael Hall Massey University
Brent D Moyle
Brent D Moyle Griffith University
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Bill Faulkner
Bill Faulkner Griffith University
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo
Richard Butler
Richard Butler University of Strathclyde

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