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 Richard Butler sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 253 publications — 79th percentile
79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.
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 Richard Butler sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 68 D-Index — 89th percentile
89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.
Richard Butler is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus spanning sociology and political science, demography, transportation, geography, planning and development, as well as tourism, leisure, and hospitality management.
The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to tourism, including diverse aspects of tourism research, cruise tourism development and management, tourism, volunteerism and development, religious tourism and spaces, hospitality and tourism education, migration, aging, and tourism studies, and island studies and Pacific affairs.
Among the recent papers authored by Richard Butler are the following:
Richard Butler has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:
The scientist has published multiple works in several key academic venues, including:
Richard Butler has also contributed to book literature, notably with a publication from Multilingual Matters eBooks titled Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness, published in 2022.
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Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey
Richard Butler;Colin Michael Hall;John M Jenkins
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Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey
J.E. Brougham;R.W. Butler
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Rachel Dodds;Richard Butler
Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey
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Rachel Dodds;Richard Butler
Louise Twining-Ward;Richard Butler
Adi Weidenfeld;Allan M. Williams;Richard W. Butler
Richard Butler;Thomas Hinch
Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey
Douglas G. Pearce;Richard W. Butler
Constantinos Bastakis;Dimitrios Buhalis;Richard Butler
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Carlos Pestana Barros;Richard Butler;Antónia Correia
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