2026 Noel Scott: 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	61	503	468	25	25	343	15777

Overview

Noel Scott is affiliated with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and business disciplines, with a strong focus on tourism studies.

The main fields of study for Scott include:

Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting

Their work also covers various subfields of study, such as:

Sociology and Political Science
Transportation
Social Psychology
Demography
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Scott's research focuses on several key topics, mainly related to tourism:

Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Cruise Tourism Development and Management
Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Digital Marketing and Social Media
Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
Religious Tourism and Spaces
Hospitality and Tourism Education

Scott's recent papers cover a range of themes within tourism and psychology, including:

Positive psychology and tourist well-being: A systematic literature review, 2020, published in Tourism Management Perspectives
Augmented reality and the enhancement of memorable tourism experiences at heritage sites, 2022, published in Current Issues in Tourism
The Experience of Novelty and the Novelty of Experience, 2020, published in Frontiers in Psychology
How to win the consumer's heart? Exploring appraisal determinants of consumer pre-consumption emotions, 2020, published in International Journal of Hospitality Management
Customer emotion research in hospitality and tourism: conceptualization, measurements, antecedents and consequences, 2021, published in International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Frequent co-authors with whom Scott has collaborated include:

Brent Moyle
Liubov Skavronskaya
Ana Cláudia Campos
Arghavan Hadinejad
Biqiang Liu

Scott has published widely in several academic venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

Current Issues in Tourism
Tourism Cases
Tourism Review
International Journal of Culture Tourism and Hospitality Research
Frontiers in Psychology

Their scholarly contributions also include book publications. Two editions of the book Cognitive Psychology and Tourism were published in 2024, one through Griffith University and another through Emerald Publishing Limited.

Best Publications

Destination and enterprise management for a tourism future.

Larry Dwyer;Deborah Edwards;Nina Mistilis;Carolina Roman

885
Citations
Network Analysis and Tourism

Noel Scott;Rodolfo Baggio;Chris Cooper

755
Citations
Network Analysis and Tourism: From Theory to Practice

Noel R. Scott;Rodolfo Baggio;Christopher Cooper

671
Citations
Muslim world and its tourisms

Jafar Jafari;Noel Robert Scott

642
Citations
Destination networks: Four Australian cases

Noel Scott;Chris Cooper;Rodolfo Baggio

599
Citations
Co-creation of tourist experiences: a literature review

Ana Cláudia Campos;Júlio Mendes;Patrícia Oom do Valle;Noel Scott

556
Citations
Network science: A Review Focused on Tourism

Rodolfo Baggio;Noel Scott;Chris Cooper

545
Citations
Improving tourism destination governance: a complexity science approach

Rodolfo Baggio;Noel Scott;Chris Cooper

394
Citations
Benefits of visiting a ‘dark tourism’ site: The case of the Jeju April 3rd Peace Park, Korea

Eung-Jung Kang;Noel Scott;Timothy Jeonglyeol Lee;Roy Ballantyne

383
Citations
Governance: a review and synthesis of the literature

Lisa Ruhanen;Noel Scott;Brent Ritchie;Aaron Tkaczynski

358
Citations
Customer delight from theme park experiences. The Antecedents of Delight based on Cognitive Appraisal Theory

Jiangsu Ma;Jun Gao;Noel Scott;Peiyi Ding

356
Citations
POWER IN DESTINATION BRANDING

Giuseppe Marzano;Noel Scott

290
Citations
Current and potential methods for measuring emotion in tourism experiences: a review

Shanshi Li;Noel Scott;Gabby Walters

263
Citations
Tourism Crises and Marketing Recovery Strategies

Noel Scott;Eric Laws;Bruce Prideaux

234
Citations
The Marketing of Hospitality and Leisure Experiences

Noel Scott;Eric Laws;Philipp Boksberger

216
Citations
Residents’ attitudes to tourism: a review

Arghavan Hadinejad;Brent D. Moyle;Noel Scott;Anna Kralj

213
Citations
Positive psychology and tourist well-being: A systematic literature review

Sera Vada;Catherine Prentice;Noel Scott;Aaron Hsiao

211
Citations
A review of eye-tracking research in tourism

Noel Scott;Rui Zhang;Dung Le;Brent Moyle

207
Citations
Co-Creation Experiences: Attention and Memorability

Ana Cláudia Campos;Julio Mendes;Patricia Oom do Valle;Noel Scott

206
Citations
Network Position and Perceptions of Destination Stakeholder Importance

Chris Cooper;Noel Scott;Rodolfo Baggio

192
Citations
Tourism Crises and Disasters: Enhancing Understanding of System Effects

Noel R. Scott;Eric Laws

192
Citations
Influence of Social Media on Chinese Students’ Choice of an Overseas Study Destination: An Information Adoption Model Perspective

Mengya Shu;Noel Scott

184
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Cooper Leeds Beckett University

Rodolfo Baggio Bocconi University

Jan Packer University of Queensland

David Solnet University of Queensland

Pierre Benckendorff University of Queensland

Roy Ballantyne University of Queensland

Brent W. Ritchie University of Queensland

Susanne Becken Griffith University

Mike Peters University of Innsbruck

Larry Dwyer University of Technology Sydney

External Links

Personal website of Noel Scott Google Scholar page

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