Scot Burton is Distinguished Professor and Tyson Research Chair in Food and Consumer Products Retailing, Department of Marketing, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas–Fayetteville. His primary research interests include consumer well-being, public policy concerns, and retail consumer promotion issues.

He has published more than one hundred refereed articles in a variety of journals in marketing, psychology, and health, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Tobacco Control, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Management, and MIS Quarterly.

Two of his coauthored articles have received the Thomas C. Kinnear Journal of Public Policy & Marketing outstanding article award, and he will begin serving as a co-editor of JPP&M in July, 2017. He also has served as a special external consultant to the FDA Risk Communications Advisory Committee.