top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Sport, Leisure & Tourism

2025 single-year list · 462 listed authors · Economics & Business

462 researchers whose main subfield is Sport, Leisure & Tourism, part of Economics & Business, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 11,605 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 444 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
462
3.98% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
11,605
Median citations
38
top 1% from 914 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#111
Han, Heesup

Top countries

  1. United States11625%
  2. United Kingdom6013%
  3. Australia5211%
  4. Hong Kong255%
  5. China194%
  6. Canada163%
  7. South Korea153%
  8. Taiwan143%
  9. Spain133%
  10. New Zealand123%

Top institutions

  1. School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University225%
  2. The University of Queensland Business School92%
  3. Rosen College of Hospitality Management82%
  4. University of Surrey72%
  5. Texas A&M University72%
  6. Griffith University51%
  7. Arizona State University51%
  8. Edith Cowan University51%
  9. Manchester Metropolitan University51%
  10. Kyung Hee University51%

462 listed scientists in Sport, Leisure & Tourism

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