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Gordon R Waitt 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 Gordon R Waitt sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 260 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gordon R Waitt 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 Gordon R Waitt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gordon R Waitt is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their research spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Transportation, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics, prominently:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Disability Rights and Representation
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Gordon R Waitt has published research in various scholarly venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Social & Cultural Geography
  • Gender Place & Culture
  • Mobilities
  • Area
  • Tourist Studies

Their recent academic papers highlight a range of interdisciplinary topics. Selected recent works are:

  • The reactivated bike: Self-reported cycling activity during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, 2021, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Indoor temperatures and energy use in NSW social housing, 2021, Energy and Buildings
  • Towards household sustainability? Experimenting with composting food waste, 2022, Geoforum
  • Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants, 2021, Local Environment
  • Young men's sports betting assemblages: masculinities, homosociality and risky places, 2020, Social & Cultural Geography

Their frequent collaborators include Theresa Harada, Ian Buchanan, Glen Fuller, Tess Lea, and Ross Gordon.

Best Publications

  • Social impacts of the Sydney Olympics

    Gordon Waitt

  • Consuming heritage: Perceived historical authenticity

    Gordon Waitt

  • Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place

    Gordon R Waitt;Christopher R Gibson

  • Gay Tourism: Culture and Context

    Gordon Waitt;Kevin Wayne Markwell

  • Doing foucauldian discourse analysis-revealing social realities

    Gordon R Waitt

  • Doing Discourse Analysis

    Gordon R Waitt

  • Playing Games with Sydney: Marketing Sydney for the 2000 Olympics

    Gordon Waitt

  • Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces

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

  • ‘Killing waves’: surfing, space and gender

    Gordon R Waitt

  • Urban Festivals: Geographies of Hype, Helplessness and Hope

    Gordon R Waitt

  • Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia

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

  • Listening and tourism studies

    Gordon R Waitt;Michelle Duffy

  • The Olympic spirit and civic boosterism: The Sydney 2000 Olympics

    Gordon Waitt

  • Community and Nostalgia in Urban Revitalisation: a critique of urban village and creative class strategies as remedies for social ‘problems’

    Kendall Barnes;Gordon R Waitt;Nicholas J Gill;Christopher R Gibson

  • Food waste and domestic refrigeration: a visceral and material approach

    Gordon R Waitt;Catherine Phillips

  • Queer-Friendly Neighbourhoods: Interrogating Social Cohesion across Sexual Difference in Two Australian Neighbourhoods:

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Gordon R Waitt

  • 'The guys in there just expect to be laid': Embodied and gendered socio-spatial practices of a 'night out' in Wollongong, Australia

    Gordon R Waitt;Loretta Jessop;Andrew W Gorman-Murray

  • Walking practice and suburban nature-talk

    Gordon R Waitt;Nicholas J Gill;Lesley M Head

  • Festivals, Space and Sexuality: Gay Pride in Australia

    Kevin Markwell;Gordon Waitt

  • A Queer Country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Gordon R Waitt;Christopher R Gibson

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Lesley Head
Lesley Head University of Melbourne
Nicholas J Gill
Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter
Andrew Gorman-Murray
Andrew Gorman-Murray Western Sydney University
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia
Christopher A. Magee
Christopher A. Magee University of Wollongong
John Connell
John Connell University of Sydney
Gill Valentine
Gill Valentine University of Sheffield
David Bell
David Bell University of Leeds
Peter Caputi
Peter Caputi University of Wollongong

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