凭借旅游学者数量上的优势，詹姆斯库克大学与一所美国大学在世界排名中名列前茅。
在一份来自加拿大卡尔加里大学两名研究者的调查里，共记录了57名被提名旅游专业的领先学者，其中有4名来自詹姆斯库克大学。
根据在旅游领域最有声望的三大国际刊物之一—旅游管理上发表文章的历史记录表明，詹姆斯库克大学仅次于美国德克萨斯A&M大学和英国萨里大学，位居第二，这两所大学均有五名领先学者在此刊物发表过文章。
然而，从那以后，美国德克萨斯A&M大学就位居第四，英国萨里大学第二；而詹姆斯库克大学的四名领先学者仍在澳洲的领先热带研究大学继续努力研究。
在这份调查中，只有八名澳大利亚学者，五所澳大利亚大学，除了詹姆斯库克大学外，还有昆士兰大学、拉筹伯大学、新南威尔士大学和维多利亚大学。
调查是由卡尔加里大学的Weibang Zhao和 J.R. Brent Ritchie着手进行的，把1985年到2004年间的八种刊物上出版的文章数量作为衡量标准，这是一份领先旅游学术研究的综合调查。
“德克萨斯A&M大学和詹姆斯库克大学的领先学者是学者们的‘主人’，每个学者现在已经吸引了四名学者。”两个调查者说。
詹姆斯库克大学的前四名是Philip Pearce教授、汤斯威尔校区的Gianna Moscardo副教授、教授助手Glenn Ross博士和凯恩斯校区的Bruce Prideaux教授。
Philip Pearce教授是调查里澳洲学者排名最高的一位，而Glenn Ross博士是世界旅游学者中最领先的一位女学者。
Glenn Ross博士和Gianna Moscardo博士获得了詹姆斯库克大学的博士学位，这让詹姆斯库克大学成为调查中七大世界大学之一，名单中共有世界上40所大学，培养了57名领先学者。
詹姆斯库克大学的副校长Sandra Harding教授说，加拿大学者的这份评估增进了对这个学校的了解，詹姆斯库克大学的许多领域在世界上都是处于领先地位的。
Harding教授是今年一月份担任大学的副校长一职，她还说，世界排名前四名的这些学者是大学学术领导能力和研究实力的最好证明。
原文：
JCU academics tops in tourism
James Cook University's tourism academics have made the University the highest ranked institution in the world along with a US institution when it comes to tourism research.
An investigation by two researchers from the University of Calgary in Canada nominated the 57 leading scholars in tourism and JCU has four representatives on the list.
Based on the historical review conducted for the article published in the prestigious Tourism Management - one of the top three international journals in the tourism field - JCU ranked second behind Texas A & M and the University of Surrey both of which had five leading scholars.
However, since then Texas A & M has dropped to four and the University of Surrey to two while JCU's top four are still working at Australia's leading tropical research university.
Only eight Australian based academics and five Australian universities made the list - JCU with four and one each at University of Queensland, LaTrobe University, University of NSW and Victoria University.
Written by Weibang Zhao and J.R. Brent Ritchie from the University of Calgary, the study "presents the findings of a comprehensive investigation of academic leadership in tourism research, as measured by the quantity of articles published in eight journals in the field between 1985 and 2004".
"The Texas A & M University and James Cook University are the leading employers of leading scholars, each of which has now attracted four scholars," their study said.
JCU's top four are Professor Philip Pearce and Associate Professor Gianna Moscardo based in Townsville and Adjunct Professor Dr Glenn Ross and Professor Bruce Prideaux from the Cairns Campus.
Professor Pearce is the highest ranked Australian academic on the list while Dr Moscardo is the top female tourism scholar in the world.
Both Dr Ross and Dr Moscardo received their doctoral degrees from JCU making the university one of only seven institutions world-wide with multiple entries in the list of 40 universities that trained the 57 top scholars.
JCU Vice Chancellor, Professor Sandra Harding, said the assessment of the Canadian academics served to reinforce her view that the University was a world leader in many areas.
Professor Harding, who took over as Vice Chancellor of JCU in January this year, said the listing of four of the University's tourism academics in the world rankings was an acknowledgement of the academic leadership and research provided by the University.
