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Nancy Gard McGehee

Nancy Gard McGehee

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
10032
World Ranking
5804
National Ranking
2752

Nancy Gard McGehee 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 Nancy Gard McGehee sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 87 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nancy Gard McGehee 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 Nancy Gard McGehee sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nancy Gard McGehee is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including sociology and political science, demography, organizational behavior and human resource management, geography, planning and development, and urban studies.

The scientist's work extensively covers diverse aspects of tourism research, with significant contributions to the areas of tourism, volunteerism, and development. Additional topics in their research portfolio include management and organizational studies, the nonprofit sector and volunteering, religious tourism and spaces, sport and mega-event impacts, and participatory visual research methods.

McGehee has a publication record that emphasizes collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches. Frequent coauthors include Joelle Soulard, Charis N. Tucker, Whitney Knollenberg, Zheng Xiang, and Kristin M. Lamoureux. These collaborations have resulted in multiple papers across prominent academic venues.

Key publication venues where McGehee's research appears are:

  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Travel Research
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Tourism Management Perspectives
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Selected recent papers by Nancy Gard McGehee demonstrate the thematic focus and breadth of their research:

  • "Community cultural development: Exploring the connections between collective art making, capacity building and sustainable community-based tourism" (2022), published in Annals of Tourism Research
  • "Transformative tourism: Tourists' drawings, symbols, and narratives of change" (2021), published in Annals of Tourism Research
  • "Developing and Testing the Transformative Travel Experience Scale (TTES)" (2020), published in Journal of Travel Research
  • "Breaking barriers for Bangladeshi female solo travelers" (2021), published in Tourism Management Perspectives
  • "The road to success: Tourism social entrepreneurs' quest for regenerative tourism" (2024), published in Annals of Tourism Research

Best Publications

  • Factors Predicting Rural Residents’ Support of Tourism

    Nancy G. McGehee;Kathleen L. Andereck

  • Social change, discourse and volunteer tourism

    Nancy Gard McGehee;Carla Almeida Santos

  • Motivation for Agri-Tourism Entrepreneurship

    Nancy G. McGehee;Kyungmi Kim

  • Volunteer tourism: A review

    Stephen Wearing;Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Empowerment and resident attitudes toward tourism: Strengthening the theoretical foundation through a Weberian lens

    B. Bynum Boley;Nancy G. McGehee;Richard R. Perdue;Patrick Long

  • Gender and motivation for agri-tourism entrepreneurship

    Nancy G. McGehee;Kyungmi Kim;Gayle Ruth Jennings

  • Alternative tourism and social movements

    Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Importance-performance analysis (IPA) of sustainable tourism initiatives: the resident perspective.

    B. Bynum Boley;Nancy Gard McGehee;A.L. Tom Hammett

  • An agritourism systems model: a Weberian perspective.

    Nancy Gard McGehee

  • The Australian international pleasure travel market: motivations from a gendered perspective.

    Muzaffer Uysal;Nancy G. McGehee;Laurie Loker-Murphy

  • Measuring empowerment: Developing and validating the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS)

    B. Bynum Boley;Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Volunteer tourism and the “voluntoured”: the case of Tijuana, Mexico

    Nancy Gard McGehee;Kathleen Andereck

  • Oppression, emancipation, and volunteer tourism: Research Propositions

    Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Volunteer tourism: evolution, issues and futures

    Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Tourism-related Social Capital and Its Relationship with Other Forms of Capital: An Exploratory Study

    Nancy Gard McGehee;Seungwoo Lee;Teresa L. O'Bannon;Richard R. Perdue

  • Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective

    Anne Louise Zahra;Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Involvement and travel for recreational runners in North Carolina.

    Nancy Gard McGehee;Yooshik Yoon;David Cárdenas

  • GPS as a Method for Assessing Spatial and Temporal Use Distributions of Nature-Based Tourists:

    Jeffrey C. Hallo;J. Adam Beeco;Cari Goetcheus;John McGee

  • Shopping behavior of Chinese tourists visiting the United States: letting the shoppers do the talking.

    Yueying Xu;Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Experience Expectations of Prospective Volunteer Tourists

    Kathleen Andereck;Nancy Gard McGehee;Seungwoo Lee;David Clemmons

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Wearing
Stephen Wearing University of Technology Sydney
William C. Norman
William C. Norman Clemson University
Gianna Moscardo
Gianna Moscardo James Cook University
Richard R. Perdue
Richard R. Perdue Virginia Tech
Muzaffer Uysal
Muzaffer Uysal University of Massachusetts Amherst
Vincent P. Magnini
Vincent P. Magnini Longwood University
Zheng Xiang
Zheng Xiang Virginia Tech

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