2026 Donald Getz: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	74	243	226	14	13	247	28198

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Business and Management

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28198

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Donald Getz is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Gender Studies, Social Psychology, and Marketing.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics, including:

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Conferences and Exhibitions Management
Wine Industry and Tourism
Sports, Gender, and Society
Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
Disaster Management and Resilience

Recent publications coauthored by Donald Getz include:

"Testing the event travel career trajectory in multiple participation sports" (2020) published in Journal of Sport & Tourism
"Thoughts on Resilience and Innovation in Events Today" (2023) published in Event Management

Other significant recent papers related to the field with frequent coauthors (though not directly authored by Getz) are:

"Event portfolio management: An emerging transdisciplinary field of theory and praxis" (2020) in Tourism Management
"Shaping the event portfolio management field: premises and integration" (2020) in International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
"Specialization versus diversification in the event portfolios of amateur athletes" (2020) in Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

Frequent collaborators of Donald Getz include Vassilios Ziakas, Tommy D. Andersson, Vladimir Antchak, Jeeyeon Jeannie Hahm, and Karin Weber.

Consistent publishing venues associated with the scientist include:

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
Event Management
Tourism Management
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Journal of Sport & Tourism

Donald Getz has also contributed to book publications, including "Cases For Event Management and Event Tourism" (2023) published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd eBooks.

Best Publications

COLLABORATION THEORY AND COMMUNITY TOURISM PLANNING

Tazim B. Jamal;Donald Getz

2794
Citations
Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research

Donald Getz

2459
Citations
Festivals, special events, and tourism

Donald Getz

2144
Citations
Critical success factors for wine tourism regions: a demand analysis

Donald Getz;Graham Brown

907
Citations
Progress and prospects for event tourism research

Donald Getz;Stephen J. Page

896
Citations
Event Studies: Theory, Research and Policy for Planned Events

Donald Getz

878
Citations
Event management and event tourism

Donald Getz

853
Citations
Characteristics and goals of family and owner-operated businesses in the rural tourism and hospitality sectors.

Donald Getz;Jack Carlsen

745
Citations
A network perspective on managing stakeholders for sustainable urban tourism

Seldjan Timur;Donald Getz

526
Citations
Family business in tourism: State of the Art

Donald Getz;Jack Carlsen

454
Citations
Community roundtables for tourism-related conflicts: the dialectics of consensus and process structures.

Tazim Jamal;Donald Getz

388
Citations
Festival Stakeholder Roles: Concepts and Case Studies

Donald Getz;Tommy D. Andersson;Mia Larson

378
Citations
The environment‐community symbiosis: A case for collaborative tourism planning

Donald Getz;Tazim B. Jamal

360
Citations
The nature and scope of festival studies

Donald Getz

341
Citations
Residents' attitudes towards tourism: A longitudinal study in Spey Valley, Scotland

Donald Getz

340
Citations
Tourism planning and destination life cycle

Donald Getz

338
Citations
Sustainable tourism development: how do destination stakeholders perceive sustainable urban tourism?

Seldjan Timur;Donald Getz;Donald Getz

337
Citations
Models in tourism planning: Towards integration of theory and practice

Donald Getz

333
Citations
Special events: defining the product.

Donald Getz

331
Citations
Travel, tourism, and hospitality research: A handbook for managers and researchers

Donald Getz

251
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison Morrison William Angliss Institute

Stephen J. Page University of Hertfordshire

Tazim Jamal Texas A&M University

Mark E. Havitz University of Waterloo

Simon Hudson University of South Carolina

Sara Dolnicar University of Queensland

Chris Ryan University of Waikato

Geoffrey I. Crouch La Trobe University

Graham Miller Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Tom Baum University of Strathclyde

External Links

Personal website of Donald Getz

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