Bob McKercher is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Transportation and Social Psychology.
According to data from OpenAlex, Bob McKercher has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 192 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 75 papers in Transportation and 49 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bob McKercher's work include Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (180 papers), Cruise Tourism Development and Management (55 papers) and Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (48 papers). Bob McKercher is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (180 papers), Cruise Tourism Development and Management (55 papers) and Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (48 papers). Bob McKercher collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, Australia and Macao. Bob McKercher's co-authors include Alan A. Lew, Hilary du Cros, Bendegül Okumuş, Fevzi Okumuş, Rob Law, Pamela S. Y. Ho, Noam Shoval, Bruce Prideaux, Eva Ng and Tanya Packer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Business Research.
In The Last Decade
Bob McKercher
219 papers
receiving
11.4k citations
Hit Papers
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies
if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the
same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average
within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research
topics.
Modeling Tourist Movements
2006433 citationsBob McKercher et al.Annals of Tourism Researchprofile →
Ideal image in process: Online tourist photography and impression management
2015167 citationsBob McKercher et al.Annals of Tourism Researchprofile →
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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bob McKercher. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bob McKercher. The network helps show where Bob McKercher may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bob McKercher
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bob McKercher.
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