Publications

Peer-reviewed articles from the lab and its members, most recent first. Lab members’ names are in bold. Technical reports for agency partners are listed on the Projects page. Full records are on ORCID.

Peer-reviewed articles

Park, S., Parkinson, C., Pan, B., & Duffy, L. (2026). The leisure of AI agents on Moltbook? Leisure Sciences. In press.

Cheng, X., Li, J., Parkinson, C., Liu, T., & Pan, B. (2025). Virtual or physical: How different types of urban streets affect tourists’ restoration. Current Issues in Tourism, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2025.2493229

Li, H., Li, F., Browning, M. H. E. M., Larson, L. R., Jennings, V., Rigolon, A., Ogletree, S., Parkinson, C., & Wang, R. (2025). Green spaces and social bonds: Investigating associations of parks and greenness with online social connectedness (via Facebook) across the United States. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 112, 128985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128985

Parkinson, C., Gong, Y., Tan, G., & Pan, B. (2025). Tourist monitoring compass: Linking measurement with constructs for nature-based tourism monitoring. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Horizons, 1(4), 438–451. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHTH-04-2025-0070

Parkinson, C., Pan, B., Morris, S. A., Rice, W. L., Taff, B. D., Chi, G., & Newman, P. (2025). A comparison of tourists’ spatial–temporal behaviors between location-based service data and onsite GPS tracks. Sustainability, 17(2), 391. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17020391

Parkinson, C., Shen, X., MacDonald, M., Logan, S. W., Gorrell, L., & Lindberg, K. (2025). Outdoor recreation’s association with mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE, 20(4), e0321278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321278

Gorrell, L., Shen, X., MacDonald, M., Logan, S. W., Hatfield, B. E., Parkinson, C., et al. (2024). The effect of outdoor play, physical activity, and screen time use on the emotional wellbeing of children and youth during a health crisis. Leisure Sciences, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2024.2335930

Parkinson, C., Shen, X., MacDonald, M., Logan, S. W., Gorrell, L., & Hatfield, B. E. (2024). Adaptative strategies for outdoor recreation during a time of stress: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Sage Open, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241305774

Patwary, M. M., Bardhan, M., Disha, A. S., Dzhambov, A. M., Parkinson, C., Browning, M. H., et al. (2024). Nature exposure and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Navigation Guide systematic review with meta-analysis. Environmental Pollution, 124284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124284

Rice, W. L., Taff, B. D., Morris, S. A., Pan, B., Parkinson, C., & Newman, P. (2024). Explorations of preferred and maximum booking windows among U.S. National park campers: Implications for improved fairness. Tourism and Hospitality Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/14673584241237442

Shen, X., Macdonald, M., Logan, S. W., Parkinson, C., Gorrell, L., & Hatfield, B. E. (2022). Leisure engagement during COVID-19 and its association with mental health and wellbeing in U.S. adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1081. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031081