Dogan Gursoy

Dr. Dogan Gursoy is Regents Professor and Taco Bell Distinguished Professor in the School of Hospitality Business Management, Carson College of Business at Washington State University. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management (SSCI IF: 11.9). Dr Gursoy has published over 200 research publications in refereed journals and 12 books. The scientific impact of his publications is evident in the cumulative h-index of over 100 and over 44,500 citations (google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p9ndUsYAAAAJ&hl=en). He is recognized and consistently ranked as one of the most prolific hospitality and tourism scholars worldwide. He is also ranked as the number 78 researcher in the United States in Business and Management category and the number 136 researcher worldwide in the same category. He is the recipient of the ICHRIE Lifetime Research Achievement Award and the Michael D. Olsen Research Achievement Award. Dr. Gursoy is also one of the few hospitality and tourism scholars who received the Highly Cited Researcher Award and Recognition from Clarivate in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. According to Clarivate, the Highly Cited Researcher Award recognizes the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science. Clarivate states that of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000. As a leading hospitality and tourism scholar, Dr. Gursoy focuses on topics such as use of artificially intelligent devices in service delivery, sustainability, services management, tourist behavior, and hospitality and tourism marketing.