A recently published article in Tourism Management identified three faculty members in Carolina's School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management among the top 50 of the most prolific tourism research scholars in the world.

The Carolina faculty members and their rankings are: Muzzo Uysal, No. 4; Ercan Sirakaya Turk, No. 28; and David Weaver, No. 44.

The study provides a comprehensive investigation of academic leadership in tourism research using the quantity of articles published in eight major journals, including ANNALS of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, and Tourism Management, between 1985 and 2004.

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