Kourosh Esfandiar

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kourosh Esfandiar is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Marketing and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Kourosh Esfandiar has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Marketing and 8 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Kourosh Esfandiar's work include Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (7 papers). Kourosh Esfandiar is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (7 papers). Kourosh Esfandiar collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Iran and France. Kourosh Esfandiar's co-authors include Joanna Pearce, Ross Dowling, Siamak Seyfi, Edmund Goh, S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Levent Altınay, Mohammad Sharifi-Tehrani, Stephen Pratt, C. Michael Hall and Ali Vafaei‐Zadeh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Business Research.

In The Last Decade

Kourosh Esfandiar

22 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A systematic scoping review of sustainable tourism indicators in relation to the sustainable development goals

2020 388 citations S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, C. Michael Hall et al. Journal of Sustainable Tourism profile →
Understanding entrepreneurial intentions: A developed integrated structural model approach

2017 354 citations Kourosh Esfandiar, Mohammad Sharifi-Tehrani et al. Journal of Business Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kourosh Esfandiar Australia	10	638	425	361	309	172	25	1.4k
Ben Wooliscroft New Zealand	20	344 0.5×	538 1.3×	211 0.6×	144 0.5×	183 1.1×	69	1.3k
Lluís Garay Spain	18	834 1.3×	822 1.9×	230 0.6×	66 0.2×	169 1.0×	51	1.6k
Issahaku Adam Ghana	22	732 1.1×	312 0.7×	139 0.4×	77 0.2×	156 0.9×	53	1.5k
Eleri Jones United Kingdom	20	981 1.5×	345 0.8×	120 0.3×	120 0.4×	205 1.2×	51	1.6k
Rohit H. Trivedi United Kingdom	17	279 0.4×	580 1.4×	310 0.9×	265 0.9×	182 1.1×	36	1.3k
Piotr Zientara Poland	12	382 0.6×	776 1.8×	338 0.9×	93 0.3×	392 2.3×	54	1.4k
Azılah Kasım Malaysia	19	649 1.0×	842 2.0×	366 1.0×	62 0.2×	252 1.5×	72	1.5k
Karla Boluk Canada	16	773 1.2×	153 0.4×	120 0.3×	185 0.6×	124 0.7×	50	1.3k
Chih‐Ching Teng Taiwan	21	566 0.9×	954 2.2×	359 1.0×	70 0.2×	551 3.2×	46	1.9k
Syed Shah Alam Malaysia	19	390 0.6×	412 1.0×	262 0.7×	159 0.5×	338 2.0×	56	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Kourosh Esfandiar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kourosh Esfandiar

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Hatamifar, Pezhman, Kourosh Esfandiar, & Zahed Ghaderi. (2025). Towards carbon neutrality in tourism: pathways and future research directions. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 1–24. 1 indexed citations

Hadinejad, Arghavan, Kourosh Esfandiar, & Liubov Skavronskaya. (2025). Advancing sustainable tourism behavioural research: a metacognitive perspective. Current Issues in Tourism. 1–20. 7 indexed citations

Esfandiar, Kourosh, et al.. (2024). Business models of multisided platforms for in-destination tours and activities: a morphological analysis approach. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. 41(6). 828–848. 2 indexed citations

Esfandiar, Kourosh, et al.. (2024). Do Pro-Environmental Factors Lead to Customers' Purchase Intention of Home Energy Management System? The Moderating Effects of Energy-Efficient Habits. 3(2). 193–205. 3 indexed citations

Gholipour, Hassan F. & Kourosh Esfandiar. (2024). Does medial tourism promote growth in healthcare sector?. The European Journal of Health Economics. 26(2). 233–241. 2 indexed citations

Esfandiar, Kourosh, et al.. (2024). Trash in the bin, to a cleaner scene we cling: a mixed method approach on tourists’ binning behavior at two spiritual destinations. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 29(12). 1490–1508. 3 indexed citations

O’Connor, Peter, Kourosh Esfandiar, & Rob Hallak. (2024). Resilience for Hospitality and Tourism Enterprises: A Review and Directions for Future Research. Tourism Analysis. 30(1). 5–22. 5 indexed citations

Esfandiar, Kourosh, et al.. (2024). Determinants of consuming functional fermented foods: An integrated structural model approach. Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing. 37(4). 637–667.

Esfandiar, Kourosh, Joanna Pearce, Ross Dowling, & Edmund Goh. (2023). The extended theory of planned behaviour model and national parks visitors' pro-environmental binning behaviour: A cross-cultural perspective. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. 42. 100602–100602. 23 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, et al.. (2023). To shop or not to shop while traveling? Exploring the influence of shopping mall attributes on overall tourist shopping satisfaction. Tourism Recreation Research. 49(6). 1411–1426. 9 indexed citations

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Goh, Edmund, Kourosh Esfandiar, Ferry Jie, Kerry Brown, & Hadrian Geri Djajadikerta. (2022). Please sort out your rubbish! An integrated structural model approach to examine antecedents of residential households’ waste separation behaviour. Journal of Cleaner Production. 355. 131789–131789. 54 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, Joanna Pearce, Ross Dowling, & Edmund Goh. (2022). Pro-environmental behaviours in protected areas: A systematic literature review and future research directions. Tourism Management Perspectives. 41. 100943–100943. 77 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, Ross Dowling, Joanna Pearce, & Edmund Goh. (2021). What a load of rubbish! The efficacy of theory of planned behaviour and norm activation model in predicting visitors’ binning behaviour in national parks. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 46. 304–315. 87 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, et al.. (2020). A photo-elicitation study of the meanings of a cultural heritage site experience: a means-end chain approach. Journal of Heritage Tourism. 16(1). 62–78. 30 indexed citations

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Rasoolimanesh, S. Mostafa, et al.. (2020). A systematic scoping review of sustainable tourism indicators in relation to the sustainable development goals. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 31(7). 1497–1517. 388 indexed citations breakdown →

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, Joanna Pearce, & Ross Dowling. (2019). Personal norms and pro-environmental binning behaviour of visitors in national parks: the development of a conceptual framework. Tourism Recreation Research. 44(2). 163–177. 76 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, Ross Dowling, Joanna Pearce, & Edmund Goh. (2019). Personal norms and the adoption of pro-environmental binning behaviour in national parks: an integrated structural model approach. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 28(1). 10–32. 166 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, Ross Dowling, & Joanna Pearce. (2018). Pro-environmental behaviour in national parks: Smart for one, but dump for all. 741. 4 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, Mohammad Sharifi-Tehrani, Stephen Pratt, & Levent Altınay. (2017). Understanding entrepreneurial intentions: A developed integrated structural model approach. Journal of Business Research. 94. 172–182. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Esfandiar, Kourosh, et al.. (2014). Effective factors on souvenir purchase: the case of foreign tourists' viewpoint in Tehran city. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 147–167. 3 indexed citations

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