Oman education: SQU professor’s research paper wins excellence certificate

Oman Wednesday 19/October/2016 22:18 PM
By: Times News Service
Oman education: SQU professor’s research paper wins excellence certificate

MUSCAT: A professor from the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) has received a Citation of Excellence Certificate 2016 from Emerald Publishing for his paper published in the Tourism Management Journal.
Dr Khaldoon Nusair’s paper “Generation Y Travellers’ Commitment to Online Social Networking Websites,” has been selected as a winning paper in 2016.
As many as 150 worldwide publications in the areas of Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics and Marketing, qualified for the prestigious Emerald Citations of Excellence award for 2016 and his paper was one of the winners.
Each year, Emerald Group Publishing awards certificates to highly cited papers relating to the areas of Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics and Marketing—subjects in which Emerald itself has proudly published journals for nearly 50 years.
Nusair, along with three co-authors, has been recognised by Emerald Group Publishing as the author of one of the most highly cited and highly influential papers published in 2013 related to the aforementioned disciplines.
He is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Marketing at the College of Economics and Political Science at SQU.
Prior to joining SQU, Nusair was an associate professor of Hospitality Marketing at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States from 2007 to 2014. He has taught a number of marketing courses at the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels and is the author of one book and more than 75 refereed papers in leading academic journals and proceedings of international conferences.