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Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management

Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the relationship between leisure activities and subjective well-being, including the constraints, involvement, and health benefits associated with various forms of recreation. It also delves into the impact of tourism and the experiences of individuals with disabilities in leisure pursuits.

  • Leisure
  • Well-Being
  • Constraints
  • Recreation
  • Involvement
  • Health
  • Quality of Life
  • Tourism
  • Disability
  • Psychological Mechanisms
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management

Which countries lead Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (531 and 343 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 531 works
  2. 2 China 343 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 333 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 183 works
  5. 5 Australia 141 works
  6. 6 Canada 131 works
  7. 7 Spain 85 works
  8. 8 India 85 works
  9. 9 South Korea 73 works
  10. 10 Japan 63 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 27.0%China: 17.4%Türkiye: 16.9%United Kingdom: 9.3%6 others listed: 29.4%27%largest
United States531 · 27.0%China343 · 17.4%Türkiye333 · 16.9%United Kingdom183 · 9.3%6 others listed579 · 29.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Waterloo publishes the most Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management research, followed by The University of Queensland and Griffith University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of WaterlooCanada 14 works
  2. 2 The University of QueenslandAustralia 14 works
  3. 3 Griffith UniversityAustralia 14 works
  4. 4 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 11 works
  6. 6 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 10 works
  7. 7 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 10 works
  9. 9 University of AlbertaCanada 10 works
  10. 10 Adnan Menderes UniversityTürkiye 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management include Icek Ajzen and Kimberly D. Miller.

  1. 1 Icek Ajzen United States 267k citations
  2. 2 Kimberly D. Miller United States 200k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management?

The most cited paper in Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management is "River Magic: Extraordinary Experience and the Extended Service Encounter" (Eric J. Arnould, Linda L. Price, 1993), with 2,537 citations. Next come "Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research" (2,217) and "Anomie, ego-enhancement and tourism" (2,011).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 River Magic: Extraordinary Experience and the Extended Service Encounter Eric J. Arnould, Linda L. Price · Journal of Consumer Research Jun 1993 2,537
2 Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research Donald Getz · Tourism Management 2 Oct 2007 2,217
3 Anomie, ego-enhancement and tourism Graham M. S. Dann · Annals of Tourism Research Mar 1977 2,011
4 Environmental factors associated with adults' participation in physical activity A review Nancy Humpel · American Journal of Preventive Medicine Apr 2002 1,799
5 The Measurement of Place Attachment: Validity and Generalizability of a Psychometric Approach Daniel R. Williams, Jerry J. Vaske · Forest Science Open access Dec 2003 1,712
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Where is Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management research done?

The largest centres of Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Ankara (Türkiye) and Brisbane (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 45 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 38 works
  3. 3 AnkaraTürkiye 34 works
  4. 4 BrisbaneAustralia 32 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 31 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 23 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 21 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 19 works
  10. 10 MacaoChina 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Griffith University, The University of Queensland and Hong Kong Polytechnic University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Griffith UniversityThe University of Qu…University of Waterloo
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Griffith UniversityAustralia 80.628.6%12.2×14 -13.8%
2The University of QueenslandAustralia 72.911.6%5.4×14 +28.7%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 66.430.7%4.2×10 -16.4%
4University of WaterlooCanada 64.85.6%9.6×14 +13.2%
5Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 48.210.7%4.3×13 -37.9%
6Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 45.624.6%1.6×9 +44.8%
7University of AveiroPortugal 41.115.3%10.2×9 -16.0%
8University of OtagoNew Zealand 39.011.9%11.4×9 -32.6%
9Gazi UniversityTürkiye 37.52.0%8.6×11 +68.2%
10North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 36.514.4%6.3×9 -11.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management, country by country

Is Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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