Revealing the Nature of Contemporary Tourism Research: Extracting Common Subject Areas through Bibliographic Coupling

Yulan Yuan; Ulrike Gretzel; Yuen Hsien Tseng

doi:10.1002/jtr.2004

Revealing the Nature of Contemporary Tourism Research: Extracting Common Subject Areas through Bibliographic Coupling

Yulan Yuan, Ulrike Gretzel, Yuen Hsien Tseng^*

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Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies

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Abstract

This study aims at identifying recent subject areas and citation patterns of tourism research by applying a bibliometric tool to analyze over 2000 publications since 2008 from 10 tourism journals. Twelve subject areas were identified, and interesting citation patterns were revealed. From this analysis, the tourism research was found to be quite dynamic but at the same time very much focused on marketing and management aspects. This article contributes to ongoing efforts to reveal the nature of tourism research and its knowledge bases by applying the methodology of bibliographic coupling.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	417-431
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Tourism Research
Volume	17
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2004
Publication status	Published - 2015 Sept 1

Keywords

Bibliographic coupling
Citation patterns
Content analysis
Multistage clustering
Subject analysis
Tourism knowledge

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Transportation
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Nature and Landscape Conservation

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