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Relational bibliometrics for hospitality and tourism research: A best practice guide
Abstract
Noting the growing literature on relational bibliometrics and prevailing methodological challenges in hospitality and tourism research – inadequate bibliometric-focused structure and methodological transparency – this study contributes to knowledge about applicable analytical procedures. The authors uncover methodological issues by content analyzing 85 relational bibliometric articles published in 19 hospitality and tourism journals. The findings provide a basis for best practice recommendations. Four guiding principles are proposed for the scholarly deployment of relational bibliometrics, namely: (1) using multiple relational techniques to ensure a rich and comprehensive coverage of the pertinent field, (2) providing sufficient methodological disclosure, particularly language selection, data extraction from the applicable sampling, data cleaning and supplemental materials provided, (3) following a best practice work flow, including relational study methodologies, and (4) ensuring methodological adherence to three desired attributes – structured, comprehensive and transparent. The latter can potentially improve the thoroughness, clarity, and trustworthiness of future studies. The study concludes with a discussion of the findings, and a future research agenda which presents significant insights offering encouragement for bibliometric analyses, as well as acknowledging potential limitations.
... This study aims to conduct a SLR utilizing a domainfocused hybrid-review approach, focusing on IM studies published in the H&T field (Kraus et al., 2022). A cocitation and bibliographic coupling analysis was employed, two of the leading scientific mapping techniques, as part of multiple relational bibliometric approaches (Koseoglu et al., 2022) to overcome limitations reported in previous SLRs . Figure 1 presents the process utilized in this study. ...
... Bibliographic coupling assumes that two publications with shared common references have similar content (Donthu et al., 2021). The primary assumption is that publications citing the same articles are interconnected (Koseoglu et al., 2022). Furthermore, the link strength between the two studies is directly proportional to the number of matching references . ...
... Due to its ability to identify research fronts, bibliographic coupling compensates for some shortcomings of co-citation analysis. Bibliographic coupling is effective for identifying current trends in a field or subject, while co-citation is better for tracing its origins, i.e. its past (Koseoglu et al., 2022). Simply put, these two analyses complement each other and provide insight into the intellectual structure of a field throughout both past and present. ...
This paper reviews influencer marketing (IM)-research in the tourism and hospitality (H&T) field to provide a state-of-the-art of the past, present, and future of IM-research. It identifies research themes, theoretical underpinnings, and methodologies utilized in IM-research. Seventy-five studies are examined through co-citation, bibliographic coupling and content analysis based on the TCCM (theory/context/characteristics/methodology) framework. Co-citation analysis reveals that IM-research focused on travel blogs, vlogs, celebrity endorsement, influencer authenticity. An assessment of recent studies through bibliographic coupling indicates a partial shift toward the study of more contemporary issues. This field-discipline-focused hybrid-review contributes to literature and practice by presenting the past, present, and future of IM-research.
... It indexes more journals than other databases (Donthu et al., 2021). In addition, it is among the most widely used and easily available electronic platforms for H&T research (Koseoglu et al., 2022;Yong et al., 2022). Furthermore, before searching Scopus, we used Scopus' all science journal classification (ASJC) code (i.e. ...
... The former focuses on the field with metrics that provide an objective and measurable perspective to understand the trajectories of the scientific field. The latter, also named relational bibliometrics, focuses on knowledge structures to study social, intellectual, and conceptual structures, such as cocitation, bibliographic coupling, co-authorship, and coword analyses (Koseoglu et al., 2022). ...
... We then conducted a co-word analysis, a scientific mapping approach that visualizes the conceptual structure of UGV-research in H&T, to respond RQ1. Co-word analysis reveals the main topics and research themes in a subject (Koseoglu et al., 2022;Molina-Garcia et al., 2023). Such analysis is performed through author keywords, and it is assumed that two or more keywords that are often found near one another have some kind of thematic relationship (Donthu et al., 2021). ...
We review user-generated video (UGV)-research in hospitality and tourism (H&T), provide an overview of its current-state, and suggest ways forward. We adopted a systematic literature review methodology and reviewed 66 articles with TCM (theory/context/methodology) framework. UGV-research focuses on (i) destination image perception, (ii) short-form videos and travel live-streaming, (iii) behavioral intentions, and (iv) crisis management. Theoretical development is diverse, given the descriptive nature of research questions, but it is still in its infancy. The context varies by H&T setting, type of social media platform, population, and country. Research methods and techniques range from traditional analysis to advanced machine learning or artificial intelligence-based quantitative approaches, predominantly qualitative methods.
... To investigate current practices and main research themes in fiction-based research, I conducted a critical review to classify and integrate existing studies, closely following bestpractice recommendations for (methodological) literature reviews in the process (Aguinis et al., 2023;Celik et al., 2023;Hiebl, 2021;Koseoglu et al., 2022;Kunisch et al., 2023). In total, I reviewed articles in 26 leading organization and management journals and identified 69 relevant publications. ...
... To this end, I included a broad range of leading organization and management journals (for the full list, see Table 1). I chose a journal-driven review approach, because this has the benefits of transparency, traceability, and inclusion of high-quality publications from well-regarded journals (Hiebl, 2021;Koseoglu et al., 2022). To offset the disadvantage of a narrower focus than a databaseapproach, I decided to incorporate a comprehensive set of outlets. ...
Fictional narratives are increasingly analyzed by scholars to improve our understanding of the 'human condition', because fiction gives access to the deeply personal experiences, perceptions, and struggles of individuals. This methodological literature review explores current fiction-based research practices in organization and management studies, identifies methodological shortcomings , and finds emerging methodological conventions. After searching for fiction-based research in 26 leading organization and management journals, I found 69 articles that used fictional narratives. My analysis demonstrates that fiction is increasingly used by scholars to make theoretical contributions to six research themes: organizational life, leadership and resistance, change, ethics, gender and race, and organizational analysis. Fictional narratives are treated both metaphorically and as representations of organizational reality. The article shows recurring shortcomings in the literature and formulates recommendations for future fiction-based research. Specifically, scholars are encouraged to justify their selection of fictional sources, use multiple fictional narratives, consider including other (qualitative) data, describe the data analysis procedure, and provide longer passages or direct access to present their (fictional) data. While this review focuses on organization and management studies, it aims to be of use to the broad range of scholars in the social sciences and humanities by showing recent developments in fiction-based research and by offering tools to experiment with this innovative method, so that fictional narratives might inspire their work and enrich their research.
... Bibliometrics has been regarded as a helpful tool that can assess the overall production of the research work and observe the overall state of knowledge in a particular field (Okubo, 1997;Koseoglu, Yick, King, & Arici, 2022). Bibliometric methodology suggests that by linking the published articles, one could scientifically analyse the structure of a knowledge domain (Arici Authors Page no. ...
... This technique uses network visualization to analyse the relationships between various research constituents (Baker et al., 2021;Koseoglu et al., 2022). This analysis examines the structural connections & intellectual interactions among the given research constituents, which include the authorship analysis, citation & co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling and co-occurrence analysis. ...
Abstract
Purpose – This article aims to conduct a bibliometric study using structural and relational approaches amongst the extracted documents and investigates the connections between business incubation and entrepreneurship-related papers to describe the field comprehensively.
Design/methodology/approach – A total of 259 articles have been retrieved from Scopus database in order to conduct the bibliometric analysis. Performance analysis and science mapping techniques of bibliometrics have been used along with data visualisation software, i.e. VOSviewer and RStudio. The network collaboration and intellectual structures, i.e. bibliographic coupling, co-occurrence analysis, word cloud and trending topics, have been presented to identify the field’s latest trends, themes and development.
Findings – The findings highlight annual publication trends, including the most frequently cited articles, the most productive authors, countries and highly influential journals that contribute the most to the said field. The intellectual structures have been developed to identify research themes and trends by running
co-occurrence analysis and bibliographic coupling. The findings of this study emphasize the value of technology transfer, mentorship programmes, entrepreneurship education and an emphasis on innovation and creativity through entrepreneurial universities and academia. These findings provide policymakers and
administrative officials with crucial guidance for fortifying the pillars of entrepreneurship and education for the comprehensive development of the economy. Further, this article attempts to identify the most influential and relevant publications as well as the newest trends in the area of business incubation in combination with entrepreneurship.
Research limitations/implications – The article contributes not only to broaden the scope of knowledge on the said research discipline but also to comprehend how the field has evolved over a period of time. This study also attracts the interest of scholars/academicians, leading to the significant production of scholarly documents in business incubation and entrepreneurship.
Practical implications – The field of entrepreneurship and business incubation is one of the important pillars for the growth and development of the economy. This piece contributes to this arena by focusing on the areas that must be taken care of by developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem and fostering the progress of startups. The fundamentals of this research highlight the importance of mentorship programs,
entrepreneurship education, technology transfer and a focus on innovation and creativity through entrepreneurial education and efforts by universities/academia, giving an important direction to the policymakers and administration for strengthening the pillar of entrepreneurship and education for the holistic development of the economy.
Originality/value – Business incubation is an emerging field of academic research connected to startups, venture formation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, making it a potential scholarly discipline. This study presents a thorough bibliometric analysis over the last three decades, offering comprehensive details on the most significant developments in the field of business incubation. Moreover, the various analytical methods applied to this study make it more attractive.
... Since the reviewed papers were obtained from different databases (WoS and Scopus), where the metadata type and structure are in different formats, cleaning/curation and unifying metadata was mandatory prior to analysis (Koseoglu et al., 2022;. Since clearning massive data manually is challenging, R programming language with some written codes was first used to unify and repair the dataset, also known as data wrangling. ...
Scant information exists in the literature on the ethical considerations when adopting and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in services. To address this research gap, this study conducts a bibliometric analysis of 286 research articles, identified from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, on AI ethics in services. The findings revealed that most of the research on AI ethics in services is from the United Kingdom, the U.S., and China. The co-occurrence analysis further revealed that AI ethics is a complex dimension, where several ethic types are found, namely digital, business, machine, and artificial. Additionally, AI effects should be considered from micro, meso, and macro perspectives to ensure that AI systems are ethically correct. The thematic findings highlighted that for AI systems to be safe and effective in industry, they should be responsible and human-centered. Developing such systems requires defining and implementing several features, including transparency, responsibility, explainability, and accountability. Finally, the obtained findings highlighted the need for increasing awareness of AI ethics in services as well as developing regulatory frameworks and laws in this context. The findings of this study can help various stakeholders (policymakers, developers, business owners, etc.) promote the safe and effective adoption of AI in industry.
... However, the journals classified in this WoS category include sports-related journals. Following previous studies (Koseoglu et al., 2022;Park et al., 2022), we excluded the articles published in sports journals, and after acquiring articles by using multiple filtering processes, we manually reviewed them to determine whether they were relevant to robotic applications in the H&T industry. As a result, we retrieved 123 documents published from 2010 to 2022 for data analysis. ...
This study presents a comprehensive framework for and viewpoint on the research landscape of service robots within the hospitality and tourism context. Employing a bibliometric analysis, we examined the existing body of research on robots published in both hospitality and tourism and B&M journals. Our findings reveal that, compared to those within the hospitality and tourism context, studies in B&M have explored a broader range of topics and delved deeper into the realm of research on robots. Conversely, research in the hospitality and tourism field has predominantly focused on examining factors and outcomes associated with customer experiences in relation to robot services. Our study highlights the need for future research agendas in the field of service robot research within the hospitality and tourism context. By identifying the research gaps and emerging trends, the present study contributes to the development of this expanding area of study.
... In the final step, the authors confirmed the content boundaries to obtain documents relevant to the study scope. To achieve this, the query focused on a search in journal articles' title, abstract and keywords (Köseoglu et al., 2022). Industries Journal, and Service Science. ...
Ageing is a natural process that is accompanied by several physical, psychological, cognitive, and social changes, which can have significant impact on health and wellbeing. This bibliometric analysis combined with a systematic thematic examination of the literature delves into the interplay of ageing, wellbeing, and service provision with a focus on reviewing publications in the eight top-tier service journals. This review seeks to answer how transformative service providers address the changing needs and unique requirements of the ageing populations, co-create services with them, and assess the challenges and potential advantages they encounter in co-creating wellbeing with the ageing population. This research examines the service ecosystem "wellbeing of the ageing population" across all levels, including the ageing individuals (micro level), service providers (meso level), and government (macro level). Thematic analysis revealed eight salient key themes, illuminating how transformative services impact wellbeing co-creation when ageing. A comprehensive future research agenda for Transformative Service Research (TSR) is proposed to guide the development of services for wellbeing co-creation with the ageing population. This review calls attention to the pivotal role of transformative services in maintaining and enhancing wellbeing among ageing individuals and offers valuable insights to inform policy and practice.
... Bibliometrics approach was applied to explore research on Chinese sustainable tourism using co-occurrence mapping. The Scopus database was chosen to identify high-quality research due to its extensive coverage of relevant journals in the tourism, leisure, and hospitality management fields; Scopus also provides users with a large amount of current information (Koseoglu et al., 2022). ...
As sustainable tourism advances, issues such as environmental pollution, overexploitation, and ecological imbalance have been identified alongside the effects of climate change and tourism. Thus, the literature related to sustainable tourism in emerging economies, especially in China, has grown rapidly and contributed to knowledge development in recent years. An in-depth and systematic review is required to explore research development and potential research opportunities. This paper explored 1,293 documents on Chinese sustainable tourism in the Scopus database, using indicator analysis along with scientific mapping methodologies such as VOSviewer and Gephi. It uncovered key journals, authors, and papers in relevant fields and identified four thematic clusters, namely, “government policy,” “rural and heritage tourism,” “ecotourism,” and “urban tourism.” Analyses based on Sustainable Development Goals suggested that advancements in Chinese sustainable tourism contribute positively to global efforts. Furthermore, this study outlined the pertinent themes and research areas for Chinese sustainable tourism, offering information and recommendations for future researchers and tourism practitioners.
... This collection had a total of 124 journals. Based on previous research, we excluded those connected to sport, city, urban planning and policy (Koseoglu et al., 2022). Our research primarily concentrated on scholarly journals indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) within the domain of H&T. ...
Purpose
This study aims to identify the role of innovation research in formulating the intellectual structure of the hospitality and tourism literature by performing a bibliometric analysis.
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 6,255 journal articles on innovation were gathered from Scopus and analyzed using co-citation, bibliographic coupling and thematic content analyses. The most influential articles were also carefully read to reveal a nomological network of innovation research in hospitality and tourism scholarship.
Findings
Co-citation analysis reveals that there are six significant clusters in the field of innovation research. Various philosophical underpinnings might be used in different circumstances, with actor-network and Schumpeterian theory playing significant roles. A review of current works using bibliographic coupling reveals five interesting emerging research areas and makes numerous recommendations for when to conduct more studies. A review of influential articles displayed differences between the co-citation and bibliographic coupling analysis findings and produced a framework for further investigation of the knowledge field.
Originality/value
This paper is among the first integrative reviews on innovation research in hospitality and tourism by quantitatively reviewing published articles and qualitatively reviewing the content of the most influential studies.
... As Köseoglu et al. (2022) suggest, most hospitality research covers either the macro or micro scale, ignoring the influence of major economic and cultural shifts on the operation of businesses. Curation is an example of a major cultural shift towards the need for choice support in an age of abundance and cultural surplus. ...
Purpose
This conceptual paper analyses the growth of curation in tourism and hospitality and the curator role in selecting and framing products and experiences. It considers the growth of expert, algorithmic, social and co-creative curation modes and their effects.
Design/methodology/approach
Narrative and integrative reviews of literature on curation and tourism and hospitality are used to develop a typology of curation and identify different curation modes.
Findings
Curational techniques are increasingly used to organise experience supply and distribution in mainstream fields, including media, retailing and fashion. In tourism and hospitality, curated tourism, curated hospitality brands and food offerings and place curation by destination marketing organisations are growing. Curation is undertaken by experts, algorithms and social groups and involves many of destination-related actors, producing a trend towards “hybrid curation” of places.
Research limitations/implications
Research is needed on different forms of curation, their differential effects and the power roles of different curational modes.
Practical implications
Curation is a widespread intermediary function in tourism and hospitality, supporting better consumer choice. New curators influence experience supply and the distribution of consumer attention, shaping markets and co-creative activities. Increased curatorial activity should stimulate aesthetic and stylistic innovation and provide the basis for storytelling and narrative in tourism and hospitality.
Originality/value
This is the first study of curational strategies in tourism and hospitality, providing a definition and typology of curation, and linking micro and macro levels of analysis. It suggests the growth of choice-based logic alongside service-dominant logic in tourism and hospitality.
... Bibliometric analysis can used to determine the factor in entrepreneurial intention (Rodriguez-Ulcuango, Guerra-Flores, Fernandez, Ayaviri-Nina, & Giner-Pérez, 2023). (Koseoglu, Yick, King, & Arici, 2022) research on relational bibliometrics for hospitality and tourism research. (Migliavacca, Patel, Paltrinieri, & Goodell, 2022) using bibliometrics to mapping the impact of investing. ...
Strategic management can be used to envisage the challenges of inclusive economy and business innovation. This study aims to analyze the research trends development on strategic management. This research uses bibliometric analysis visualization using VosViewer. The database was downloaded from ScienceDirect. The advanced search limitation using the keyword “strategic management” in 2022. The research filter to research articles, focusing only on business, management, and accounting. The results show there are 784 articles. Analysis of visual bibliometrics shows the trend of the themes and the author's relation. There are three clusters on publication article analysis. The strongest topics in cluster 1 related to strategic management publication are firm, data, effect, role, relationship, model, and impact all of each item strengths above 1000; in cluster 2 about process, development, and framework which all around 900; and all in the third cluster no more than 500 link strength. The most productive author of this research in 2022 is Vijay Pereira.
... According to an analysis of global research on hospitality and tourism, tourism and hospitality studies have increased since 1999. Most of these publications came from the United States, and the relational research concerns hotel performance, strategic management, and smart tourism (Koseoglu et al., 2022). A bibliometric analysis of journal trends, such as Wetlands, can be very useful in creating new directions for periodical publishing (Wang et al., 2012;Rivera et al., 2022). ...
Recent studies have focused on wetlands as they can benefit humans in terms of spiritual satisfaction and mental health. This paper evaluated the scientometric analysis of 2,388 studies published on the Web of Science between 2002 and 2022. It identified hotspots and trends in wetland research using VOS viewer, Origin, and Citespace software. Analyzing global wetland research publications shows a clear upward trend. Moreover, researchers in the United States, the People's Republic of China, Australia, Canada, and India devote considerable attention to wetland research. Network keyword co-occurrence analysis showed that wetland research covers constructed wetlands, climate change, wastewater treatment, phytoremediation, restoration, and hydrology. Furthermore, the United States is the world's main hotspot for wetland research; China, Canada, Australia, and others are behind. Due to the growing appreciation of wetlands' importance, wetland research will receive more attention from researchers around the globe. Additionally, wetland tourism articles should have improved quality since most publications are rarely cited. This paper presents an overview of the scientometric methodology for global wetlands research. Additionally, scholars working on wetlands can use scientometric analysis meaningfully and effectively for their future research.
... Dahalan et al. (2023) examined how emerging technologies can fulfill accessible hospitality and tourism services for people with disabilities, a topic of growing significance to hospitality and tourism scholars and practitioners. Koseoglu et al. (2022) traced the historical development in tourism and hospitality research over the past 30 years using a novel interdisciplinary approach, combining both corpus linguistics and bibliometric analysis. They identified the most frequently discussed and newly emerging topics, providing a comprehensive overview of the field's evolution. ...
Elderly tourism constitutes an important sector within the sustainable development of the tourism industry, attracting an increasing body of research focused on market development. This study aims to outline the progression of elderly tourism research within the past five years (2019–2023) and determine prospective research trajectories and opportunities in the subject. Employing CiteSpace visual analysis technology, this investigation constructs knowledge graphs of authors, institutions, and countries from 332 English-language academic articles from the Web of Science and culminates a keyword co-occurrence knowledge graph. Next, cluster and burst analyses revealed the prevailing trends and focal points in elderly tourism research. The results underscore that while many researchers have been drawn to elderly tourism, the collaborative relationships between these scholars remain tenuous, resulting in the relatively disparate study and the absence of a lead author group. China dominates the field, producing a far greater quantity of studies than other nations. Hence, this study encourages different countries, higher education institutions and disciplines to strengthen cooperation in the management and development of elderly tourism, especially paying attention to the importance of elderly tourism services, quality management and technology integration for the sustainable development of elderly tourism.
... Science mapping: provides in-depth structural relationships based on scientific elements such as articles, authors, countries and disciplines to understand significant development in a particular research area (Small, 1973;Val erie and Pierre, 2010). Visualisation software goes hand in hand with science mapping tools (Donthu et al., 2021), and they supplement science mapping tools in illustrating their outcomes (Koseoglu et al., 2022). ...
Purpose
Modern businesses strategically focus on improving the online purchase experience (OPE) of customers to acquire a long-term competitive edge. However, the intellectual knowledge structure of OPE research remains uncharted, necessitating further investigation. This study aims to provide a concise synthesis of the evolution, trends and advancements of consumers’ OPE research using bibliometrics.
Design/methodology/approach
Firstly, the authors inventorised the relevant OPE literature, and then the bibliometric trends and the domain’s performance (top articles, outlets and authors) were analysed and illustrated through tables and narratives. Secondly, science mapping tools (such as co-occurrence) and visualisation strategy were deployed to pinpoint relevant OPE research themes and highlight the domain’s intellectual structure.
Findings
The most significant findings concern the most prolific authors, outlets, most cited articles and five thematic clusters forming the ground for potential future research paths. Also, these thematic clusters depicted the intellectual knowledge structure that emerged from the OPE research domain.
Research limitations/implications
This review may be helpful for future academic researchers to identify future research paths in the domain and practitioners to help make policy decisions while formulating and articulating their marketing strategy.
Originality/value
Deploying the VOSviewer and Bibliometrix-R software together, this review is most likely the first attempt to the best of the authors’ knowledge to provide a thorough bibliometric synthesis of the OPE research domain.
... A well-known technique for obtaining a statistical summary of a given field of interest is bibliometric analysis. Intellectual frameworks, distinctive research subjects and procedures, knowledge about authors, geographic locations of research institutions, and topic maturity can be assessed using bibliometric tools [149,150]. Last two decades have seen a significant expansion of bibliometric studies in different fields [151]. ...
... This type of analysis helps to know the state of the art of a given topic and its potential for further development and research. Data analysis research covers different fields such as materials, education, economy, medicine, environment, energy, and others [75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91]. Armenise et al. [2] developed a bibliometric analysis of the pyrolysis of different plastic wastes. ...
Global polystyrene (PS) production has been influenced by the lightness and heat resistance this material offers in different applications, such as construction and packaging. However, population growth and the lack of PS recycling lead to a large waste generation, affecting the environment. Pyrolysis has been recognized as an effective recycling method, converting PS waste into valuable products in the chemical industry. The present work addresses a systematic, bibliometric, and statistical analysis of results carried out from 2015 to 2022, making an extensive critique of the most influential operation parameters in the thermo-catalytic pyrolysis of PS and its waste. The systematic study showed that the conversion of PS into a liquid with high aromatic content (84.75% of styrene) can be achieved by pyrolysis. Discussion of PS as fuel is described compared to commercial fuels. In addition, PS favors the production of liquid fuel when subjected to co-pyrolysis with biomass, improving its properties such as viscosity and energy content. A statistical analysis of the data compilation was also discussed, evaluating the influence of temperature, reactor design, and catalysts on product yield.
... The present work first reevaluates destination reviews to provide an overview of the progress of destination studies and then employs bibliometric analysis to visualize the results of co-authorships, popular topics, thematic clusters, and structural variances in destination studies to glean in-depth knowledge of the evolutionary process of the body of literature. Koseoglu et al. (2022) likewise propose that mixed approaches can provide rich and exhaustive coverage of the relevant topic. In particular, CiteSpace provides a more cutting-edge and broader view of research topics. ...
Literature reviews serve as cornerstones for advancing the corpus of existing knowledge. This article offers an overview of the evolution of destination studies from 2000 to 2020. The current study first overviews 20 destination review articles and then applies bibliometric algorithms to determine authorships, popular topics, thematic clusters, and structural variations in 1393 destination studies. The bibliometric analysis identifies the seven largest specialties of destination research as destination loyalty, destination image, destination digitali-zation, destination marketing, destination experience and recommendation, destination governance, and destination resources. A framework was developed to illustrate the major topics of interest at the macro, meso, and micro levels. The article discusses similarities and contrasts between the findings of the two review methodol-ogies and concludes with a research agenda for destination management scholarship.
... The present work first reevaluates destination reviews to provide an overview of the progress of destination studies and then employs bibliometric analysis to visualize the results of co-authorships, popular topics, thematic clusters, and structural variances in destination studies to glean in-depth knowledge of the evolutionary process of the body of literature. Koseoglu et al. (2022) likewise propose that mixed approaches can provide rich and exhaustive coverage of the relevant topic. In particular, CiteSpace provides a more cutting-edge and broader view of research topics. ...
Literature reviews serve as cornerstones for advancing the corpus of existing knowledge. This article offers an overview of the evolution of destination studies from 2000 to 2020. The current study first overviews 20 destination review articles and then applies bibliometric algorithms to determine authorships, popular topics, thematic clusters, and structural variations in 1393 destination studies. The bibliometric analysis identifies the seven largest specialties of destination research as destination loyalty, destination image, destination digitalization, destination marketing, destination experience and recommendation, destination governance, and destination resources. A framework was developed to illustrate the major topics of interest at the macro, meso, and micro levels. The article discusses similarities and contrasts between the findings of the two review methodologies and concludes with a research agenda for destination management scholarship.
Purpose
Service providers and tourism players have introduced the green hotels concept to mitigate detrimental environmental impact. This study aimed to review the literature on green hotels based on bibliometric analysis.
Design/methodology/approach
In analyzing the potential and significant subject of the tourism industry and concern on environmental issues, this study evaluates the themes based on the past, present and future trends in green hotels from a bibliographic database retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS).
Findings
Several themes were identified from the role of the theory of planned behavior and predictors of consumers' intention to visit green hotels.
Practical implications
Implications were discussed mainly related to green hotels contribution towards sustainable tourism and its role in shaping the tourism sector's landscape. Among the practical implications include rewards by the authorities in the form of incentives or tax relief to green hotel operators, which will encourage conventional hotel transformation into green hotels. Furthermore, green hotels will be at the forefront of tourism and hospitality brands, requiring substantial green marketing initiatives. Sooner or later, opting for green hotels while traveling will be the norm among travelers.
Originality/value
The green hotels have emerged as a way to tackle the environmental issues related to tourism and hospitality while at the same time, allowing the industry to flourish. This research is one of the scant studies that provide a comprehensive overview about green hotel studies and offer future research agendas.
Purpose
Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is explored as a transformative tool rooted in complexity theory, shedding light on uncertainties shaping real-world decisions in tourism, with a focus on its application in the hospitality domain.
Design/methodology/approach
This study systematically evaluates fsQCA’s application in hospitality and tourism research, employing bibliometric analysis to scrutinize the published literature since its induction in 2011. The research seeks to understand the evolving usage by qualitatively reviewing impactful studies based on total citations.
Findings
The study reveals the ascendancy of fsQCA as a predominant approach in hospitality and tourism studies, particularly in illuminating decision-making paradigms in key sectors like destination and hotel selections and entrepreneurial orientations. However, an absence of fsQCA applications in gastronomy and wine tourism is identified, signaling uncharted territories for future inquiry.
Research limitations/implications
Theoretical implications include paradigm shifts to complexity theory, configural analysis and asymmetric algorithms. Practical implications involve improved decision-making and tailored marketing, benefiting industry practitioners. Limitations include potential academic bias, while future research suggests exploring sub-sectors, sustainability and emerging technologies.
Originality/value
This study identifies gaps in the fsQCA application and pioneers its examination within the hospitality domain, offering a unique perspective on understanding intricate relationships and configurations among variables. The study emphasizes the efficacy of asymmetric methodologies in elucidating behavioral nuances in hospitality and tourism, providing a foundation for future inquiries to expand horizons and unravel the nuanced applications of fsQCA in this research domain.
This paper aims to re‐evaluate the customer experience literature in the hospitality and tourism (H&T) domain by employing a paradox lens and constructing a model for future research direction and practitioners. Using two co‐citation analysis methods—a hierarchical cluster analysis and a multidimensional scaling analysis—to investigate 312 customer experience papers from the leading H&T journals with 22.124 citations over the 44‐year period (1987–2021), we identified five knowledge foundations that have made up the intellectual structure of customer experience in H&T: experiential consumption, authenticity, memorability, place branding, and service. This result reveals the dualistic representations of the paradoxical character of customer experience including authentic/fantastical, structured/unstructured, branded/ecological, and bubbled/exposed. Based on this finding, this study developed a framework for scholars and marketers to reveal different approaches to managing the tensions between paradoxes.
Academic research contributes to the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs) of teaching-oriented universities in many ways, such as providing quality education, promoting the healthy and diverse development of academia, and satisfying the sustainable career development of faculty. In essence, research can facilitate knowledge advancement, dissemination, and innovation, while existing metrics are outcome-based, quantitatively measured, and have methodological and invalidity problems in achieving these orientations. This exploratory study adopted a qualitative research approach guided by constructivist grounded theory to explore the fundamental question of how to evaluate good research in tourism and hospitality. By conducting 32 in-depth interviews with full-time faculty members in 16 teaching-oriented universities in mainland China, the perceptions of good research were captured. The perceived measurements that evaluate good research were interpreted, including counting publications and research projects, citation analysis and peer review, contribution to teaching, contribution to societal service and industrial interaction, and building research teams. Finally, this study provided discussions about the orientations of academic research as well as authorships in research evaluation from the perspective of HEI sustainability.
This article presents a state-of-the-art systematic review of the evolution and structure of empirical research on customer experience in hospitality and/or tourism settings based on 1,248 articles published in 13 leading hospitality and tourism journals between January 1998 and May 2021. Using Web of Science database and the PRISMA technique, research articles on customer experience were extracted and analyzed to uncover this topic’s intellectual development and key themes through a mixed-methods approach of quantitative bibliometric and qualitative content analyses. The bibliometric analysis enabled scientific investigation and visualization of the scholarly customer experience research. Based on grounded theory, content analysis was subsequently conducted to establish theoretical building blocks of customer experience, providing a conceptual model of this concept. Overall, this study extensively investigates the customer experience literature in hospitality and tourism. Findings provide a holistic understanding of customer experience, illustrate the topic’s scholarly evolution, and reveal key directions for future research.
Purpose – This study aims to serve as an important resource for customer engagement researchers by presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date, and objective assessment of the status and evolution of the CE literature. This purpose is achieved through simultaneous consideration and separate analyses of both the marketing/service and hospitality/tourism literature where customer engagement research dominates.
Design/methodology/approach – This study integrated three review techniques, including a systematic review technique, evaluative technique, and relational technique, to present a state-of-the-art analysis of 236 articles. It provides an updated picture of scientific research on customer engagement, as well as the thematic evolution and structure of the customer engagement literature across the two disciplines.
Research limitations/implications – This study reframes the scientific knowledge regarding the evolution of customer engagement literature, along with interrelation patterns, to advance relevant studies in hospitality and tourism. Findings offer a broadened perspective on the concept’s scholarly development and current research trends, thereby charting a new path for future research.
Findings – Through a comprehensive review of the customer engagement literature in marketing/service and hospitality/tourism domains, our findings build a robust foundation to evaluate how this strand of literature has developed and evolved over time. More importantly, a comparative and quantitative analysis of marketing/service and hospitality/tourism journals delivers actionable insight for hospitality and tourism scholars.
Originality – By adopting three review techniques, this state-of-the-art analysis is the first to compare and synthesize a large volume of marketing/service and hospitality/tourism research, assembling a springboard from which to evaluate how customer engagement studies have developed.
This paper aims to analyse and visualise the scientific output of the European Journal of Tourism Research (EJTR) by employing a set of bibliometric metrics; including productive and impact measures, co-authorship analysis, co-citation analysis, and co-occurrence analysis. The collected and analysed data involved 304 peer-reviewed articles published in the EJTR during the period from 2008 to 2020 within Scopus database. The results indicated that there is a substantial growing trend and evolution in publications and ranking of the EJTR during the given period. Additionally, a number of leading institutions and countries significantly contributed to the EJTR. Moreover, some top-tier academic journals and authors cited the articles published by the EJTR. Furthermore, the co-occurrence analysis identified seven clusters of research areas among the EJTR published papers over the selected period. Theoretical and practical contributions are presented as well as limitations and further research avenues are outlined.
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary, this research provides a comprehensive overview of the Journal of Ecotourism (JE) between 2002and2020.Themainobjectivesofthestudyaretodeterminethe publication trends, the conceptual, intellectual and collaboration structure in JE. Co-citation, co-word and collaboration techniques were used to understand and interpret the intellectual, conceptual and social structure in JE respectively. Bibliographic data were obtained from Scopus and analysed using ‘bibliometrix’ tool. The f indings reveal that JE has made significant progress in terms of publications and citations and its articles are cited by the premier journal in tourism. Co-word and co-citation analysis identified five and three clusters, respectively. Collaboration structure revealed that there is a good collaboration between authors in JE and 70% of the works are completed through collaborative research.
This study bibliometrically examines 406 documents published in the Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism (JQAHT) from 2000 to 2019 to uncover the scientific development, intellectual and conceptual structure in JQAHT and to rank most productive countries, institutions, authors, keywords and influential articles. The innovative tool “bibliometrix” was used to conduct the bibliometric analysis. The main results were interpreted and discussed through three levels of analysis: descriptive, intellectual structure, and co-word analysis. The descriptive analysis presents principal information about the authors, countries, publications, citations and keywords. Both co-citation analysis and historiographic mapping are used for intellectual structure and co-word analysis to reveal the conceptual structure. Han H, the USA and Oklahoma State University are the most productive author, country and institution in JQAHT, respectively, with service quality and customer satisfaction are the most researched themes. The findings provide a guide to researchers and practitioners to comprehensively understand the developmental trajectory of JQAHT and its structural and hidden implications.
Many academic analyses of good practice in the use of bibliometric data address only technical aspects and fail to account for and appreciate user requirements, expectations, and actual practice. Bibliometric indicators are rarely the only evidence put before any user group. In the present state of knowledge, it is more important to consider how quantitative evaluation can be made simple, transparent, and readily understood than it is to focus unduly on precision, accuracy, or scholarly notions of purity. We discuss how the interpretation of ‘performance’ from a presentation using accurate but summary bibliometrics can change when iterative deconstruction and visualization of the same dataset is applied. From the perspective of a research manager with limited resources, investment decisions can easily go awry at governmental, funding program, and institutional levels. By exploring select real-life data samples we also show how the specific composition of each dataset can influence interpretive outcomes.
Systematic review techniques are about to become the “new normal” in reviews of management research. However, we do not yet have much advice on how to organize the sample selection process as part of such reviews. This paper addresses this void and analyzes this vital part of systematic reviews in more detail. In particular, it offers a critical review of systematic literature reviews published in the Academy of Management Annals and the International Journal of Management Reviews between 2004 and 2018. Based on this methodological literature review, the paper presents issues to consider in the most critical choices during the sample selection process. Further, this review identifies several descriptive features such as the mean number of research items included in systematic reviews, the mean number of databases used, and the mean coverage period of such reviews. These numbers may be used as benchmark figures in future reviews.
With the advent of the fifth-generation mobile communication technology era, mobile technology will further change tourism. However, studies on mobile technology in tourism from the perspective of bibliometrics and visualization are limited. This research aimed to systematically, comprehensively, and objectively analyze the current research status and potential future research directions in this field through a visual bibliometric analysis of mobile technology research in tourism. This study used CiteSpace software to analyze 803 related journal papers from the Web of Science Core Collection and provided insights into the research of mobile technology in tourism from the aspects of research trends, research areas, top journals, author/institution/country or region collaboration networks, research keywords, and research foundations. The study can help related personnel in academia and industry to fully understand the research of mobile technology in tourism and provides valuable references for related research fields on bibliometric and visualized analysis.
Second-home tourism is a prominent feature of Nordic tourism. This article reviews Nordic research on second-home tourism since 2000 and relates it to international trends within this field. Furthermore, it provides a short outline of future research needs and opportunities. The review indicates that Nordic second-home tourism research has been highly productive and influential. After being dominated by national overviews, research has more recently addressed issues such as environmental impacts, community tensions and displacement, internationalization, and planning. Indeed, with this, Nordic researchers have gained core positions in the international ecosystem of second-home research, and particularly Umeå University has developed into the epicenter of second-home research. Although the situation for Nordic second-home research has been strong, generational shifts imply a risk of discontinuation. However, a more nuanced view on the second-home phenomenon detects the varieties of second-home tourism and the multiple interconnections to other fields of research. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, second-home research can become a forerunner in understanding households’ new spatial–temporal arrangements, combining various homes and places.
Human trafficking research has drawn increasing attention since the early 1980s. As the volume of human trafficking literature continues to expand, it is essential to examine the scope and challenges of this research area through a systematic review. Our review is based on a scientometric analysis of 2830 research articles (1982-2019) using VOSviewer. The Scopus database was utilised to retrieve bibliographic records as the core dataset to systematically review the literature on human trafficking. The overall structure of the scientometric landscape is illustrated through a three-stage process (planning/outlining a review protocol, executing the protocol, and reporting) to ensure a granular, transparent, and reliable systematic review. Our results reveal three clusters: (1) sex commercialisation, migration, and modern slavery; (2) child exploitation, sexual abuse, and health; and (3) human trafficking and institutional environments. Practical implications and future research directions are also discussed.
Policies for tourism recovery are highly instrumental in achieving tourism development after the outbreak of COVID-19. To understand these policies, this study performed the co-word analysis to map the topics of 140 recovery policies for tourism in China. Four core themes are identified in these policies, namely (i) prophylactic measures, (ii) tourism recovery and development, (iii) policy support, and (iv) departmental management. Moreover, the focus of policy measures varies by region within China. This study provides insights into further research on health-related crises and crisis recovery management in tourism, especially for developing countries and regions.
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to organize and analyze the existing literature on co-creation in tourism to identify the state-of-the-art studies and the research gap in this field.
Design/methodology/approach
As the research questions seek to provide an overview of the studies in the available literature, the systematic mapping study (SMS) has been selected as the research method. A suitable mapping study method for analyzing and structuring a broad research field concerning methods, designs and research focuses on the existing publications. In total, 137 articles published during 2006–2019 in reliable academic databases such as Science Direct, Emerald, Scopus, Wiley, ProQuest, Sage, Web of Science and Taylor and Francis were selected and analyzed.
Findings
The results show a rising trend of published articles in tourism, with the maximum number published in 2019 and the minimum number in 2006. Also, analysis of input articles revealed that most of the studies focused on the antecedents and prerequisites for co-creation and paid less attention to the co-creation context. Other findings show that in the field of tourism, the hospitality sector, especially hotels have paid special attention to co-creation. The majority of papers were the empirical type with quantitative design. Furthermore, most studies used the survey method, while the case study and other methods were the next choices.
Originality/value
This study addresses a major research gap by summarizing the literature related to value co-creation with a specific focus on tourism using the SMS method that provides an overview of the studies in this field. Categorizing papers through SMS helps researchers to review the status of studies in a visual summary to identify gaps and directions for future research.
The importance of addressing multisensory aspects in the design of tourism experiences and places has become apparent in a recent strand of research. There has been a substantial growth of studies in the last decade across different countries and journals. This paper provides an up-to-date systematic overview of the evolution of research incorporating multisensory elements rather than individual sensory modalities. These studies can assist in the understanding and design of tourism experiences and inform future research. The lexical, temporal and co-citation networks of the 99 articles selected are described, as well as the methods they use. Findings indicate that opportunities for future research on tourism experience design around the senses are related to sustainability and technology.
The present paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of published academic research dealing with restaurants in the fields of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism. In particular, it aims to identify the structure of relationships between previous and current themes, predict emerging trends and provide a longitudinal perspective on this research, covering the period 2000–2018. This approach provides an exhaustive analysis for the past two decades from over 700 papers.
The findings show, for example, that customer satisfaction is the motor theme with the greatest impact and the study of emotions is an underdeveloped theme; interest in healthy eating is witnessing gradual growth; and brand equity, culture and innovation all constitute new research themes. The future of research dealing with restaurants will tend to focus on new emerging technologies, both in the restaurant sphere and in the context of research methodologies.
Purpose
This paper aims to explore gender disparities in the production of tourism knowledge with particular reference to academic journals.
Design/methodology/approach
Authorship and co-authorship analyses were conducted of data extracted from articles and research notes published between 1965 and 2016 in 25 hospitality and tourism journals.
Findings
Gender imbalances are evident in the production of knowledge, though the disparities appear to be decreasing. While heterophilic research collaborations (those between men and women) show some evidence of higher productivity, homophilic collaborations (between males) have greater impact. The findings highlight gender imbalances in international collaborations, in SSCI listed journals, in first authoring and by country. There is evidence of higher collaborative levels among male authors and the differences have increased over time. The positioning of men and women within tourism scholarly networks shows no marked differences.
Practical implications
This data-driven analysis provides decision makers and policymakers with evidence to support well-targeted programs that advance female contributions in hospitality and tourism research collaborations. For example, senior academics and University administrators might offer support for female researchers to become more actively involved in hospitality and tourism research groups and projects. Universities or schools might also seek to encourage collaborations between male and female researchers in their performance indicators.
Originality/value
This study is one of the first to examine gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research.
This study presents a bibliometric review of creative tourism literature aimed at understanding the main research topics and approaches, theoretical foundations, and the most recent areas of investigation. Sixty-four articles on creative tourism were selected and analyzed using co-citation analysis, content analysis, and bibliographic coupling. Findings reveal that creative tourism is a well-defined field of studies with three main research topics; namely, Tourist Experience and Co-Creation, Creativity in Tourism, and Cultural Tourism and Events. Furthermore, several theoretical approaches can be applied to a different set of empirical contexts, among which co-creation and experience economy play a major role. An analysis of the most recent publications identifies five promising research trends and allows some conclusions about the opportunities for future research to be drawn.
Methodological transparency facilitates rigorous, trustworthy, and reliable mixed methods research (MMR). Because divergent views on the conceptualization of mixed methods can create confusion for researchers, methodological transparency can help researchers to replicate methods in other studies and attract them to mixed methods research. Many studies have been conducted to assess the utilization of mixed methods research in several disciplines, but few in library and information science (LIS) have studied how authors describe the methods used. This study investigated the clarity and detail provided about methodology in mixed methods research articles in LIS, focusing on South Africa and Nigeria. Content analysis was used to assess 104 doctoral theses, of which 10 used mixed methods. Results suggest that methodological transparency in MMR research is underrepresented in LIS. This study contributes to the discussion on how LIS can enhance the quality of mixed methods research studies by underscoring the importance of methodological transparency in such studies. Researchers and LIS educators can use the gaps identified by this study to use and report mixed methods appropriately in future research.
This study aims to examine the current state and knowledge progress on sharing accommodation, as well as identify knowledge gaps that provide implications for future research. 639 articles in Web of Science are examined through bibliometric analysis, including co-citation analysis, collaboration network analysis and cluster analysis. Findings reveal a dynamic flow of widening topics, the emergence of influential research institutions and scholars, and the dominant academic journals from tourism and hospitality but overspreading to other fields such as business & economics and environmental science. Clusters of research themes are identified, including the dynamic evolution of concepts, consumer behaviour from the perspective of guests and hosts, business models, impacts, spatial & temporal evolution, and regulation. The dynamic evolution of topics and the integrated framework reveal some knowledge gaps. The study contributes to existing literature by providing an intuitive and synthesised understanding of knowledge structure in this field and directions for future research.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to reveal the knowledge evolution process, research hotspots and future trends in the accessible tourism research literature from 2008 to 2020.
Design/methodology/approach
A total of 213 articles on accessible tourism were selected from the core collection database of Web of Science (WoS) and analyzed using CiteSpace.
Findings
Over the 13-year period between 2008 and 2020, an increasing number of studies have been published concerning accessible tourism, but the overall base is still small. The research content mainly includes six modules. Among institutions, the University of Technology Sydney has published the largest number of papers. Cooperation among countries involves the USA, the United Kingdom, Australia, Portugal and China. Tourism Management is the leading journal for disseminating research on accessible tourism. Definition of “Accessible tourism” and the different scope of this phenomenon are re-discussed. In recent years, “experience” and “participation” have become the “new favorites” in accessible tourism research, which could reveal insights into future research directions.
Research limitations/implications
The sampling frame was defined in terms of the WoS database and even though this is an important database for global academic information, in the big data era, the authors may have to integrate information from multiple sources to comprehensively reveal and understand knowledge maps. Second, because of the operational constraints of the CiteSpace software, the authors only selected outputs published in peer-reviewed journals, excluding other published works, such as books and conference papers. Finally, because of the language restrictions of the authors, this research is limited to journals published in the English language.
Practical implications
Practically, the results of this study made a conclusion of accessible tourism research so that the researchers can easily know what has currently been done and what future research can do. Tourism managers can also understand the demands and the constraints of tourism for the people who have barriers to travel. They can supply more specific products for the accessible tourism and further promote the construction of barrier-free travel environments.
Originality/value
This paper unifies the literature on senior tourism and people with disabilities tourism, and uses CiteSpace to construct data and network visualizations, including a burst and dynamic analysis for the period covered by the sample. Furthermore, this paper proposed a more diversified accessible tourism.
Purpose
This study aims to conduct a critical review of the research on the sharing economy to identify its key intellectual foundations and their evolution and offers thematic and methodological recommendations for future research to advance the domain.
Design/methodology/approach
A tri-method approach using bibliometric (co-citation) analysis, thematic content analysis and a quantitative systematic literature review was conducted on sharing economy research in hospitality and tourism journals, up to and including May 2020.
Findings
The findings from the three methods were coherent and provide a clear picture of the fact that while research on the sharing economy in hospitality and tourism has achieved significant depth, the breadth of the understanding of this area remains somewhat limited. Each of the three periods of research on the sharing economy identified in the study were marked by a focus on specific thematic areas, with largely Western-situated researchers demonstrating limited theoretical engagement and using a limited range of methods and perspectives (disciplinary, stakeholders and sectors) to examine these themes.
Research limitations/implications
Recommendations for future thematic research opportunities are provided using a multi-level perspective. The present review does not include research that incorporates the impacts of COVID-19, which has significantly disrupted the hospitality and tourism industry and is the focus of current research in the field. However, the review represents the largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of research on the sharing economy prior to COVID-19, and, as such, can serve as a valuable baseline for future reviews of sharing economy research during and after the pandemic.
Originality/value
In contrast with previous literature reviews, the present review is comprehensive in its scope, methodology and temporal coverage of sharing economy research. It also examines the evolution of research on the topic, enabling a more nuanced identification of gaps and future thematic and methodological research opportunities.
Bibliometric analysis is a popular and rigorous method for exploring and analyzing large volumes of scientific data. It enables us to unpack the evolutionary nuances of a specific field, while shedding light on the emerging areas in that field. Yet, its application in business research is relatively new, and in many instances, underdeveloped. Accordingly, we endeavor to present an overview of the bibliometric methodology, with a particular focus on its different techniques, while offering step-by-step guidelines that can be relied upon to rigorously perform bibliometric analysis with confidence. To this end, we also shed light on when and how bibliometric analysis should be used vis-à-vis other similar techniques such as meta-analysis and systematic literature reviews. As a whole, this paper should be a useful resource for gaining insights on the available techniques and procedures for carrying out studies using bibliometric analysis.
Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Performance analysis; Science mapping; Citation analysis; Co-citation analysis; Bibliographic coupling; Co-word analysis; Network analysis; Guidelines.
Purpose
Analyze patterns of co-authorship in hospitality and tourism (H&T) research using bibliometric methods. The purpose of this paper is to answer three questions related to collaborative practices, the number of authors, the order of signatures and the role of the corresponding author.
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology is based on the bibliometric techniques of authorship analyzes published in leading H&T journals. Evaluative techniques provide longitudinal evidence of the evolution of some indicators of authors’ collaboration: the percentage of alphabetized authorships; the percentage of articles were the most relevant author signs in the first, middle or last position; and the position of the corresponding author in the by-line.
Findings
First, the collaborative nature of H&T research is confirmed; almost 80% of articles in the sample are co-authored. Second, over the past 30 years, the alphabetized signature model has been in decline in this field. Today, about 20% of articles indexed in JCR journals are signed alphabetically. Third, the first author’s placement is less consistent than that of the corresponding author.
Practical implications
This work provides relevant information on researchers’ authorship habits that may help evaluators assign credit and accountability and avoid malpractice in the authorial assignment.
Originality/value
This study explores the habits of researchers who collaborate to improve their productivity, impact and reputation. This is often linked to facilitating access to research funding and obtaining recognition from incentive systems. Yet, no research specifically examines trends in signature order or the corresponding author’s role in the H&T field.
The horizon of heritage tourism research has been expanding in tandem with the rapidly growing heritage tourism industry. The paper aims to accentuate the innovative concepts, patterns of scientific contribution, and emerging research arena using knowledge domain visualization software—CiteSpace. Analysis of the data set revealed seven active clusters. The sub-areas lately in focus are sustainable tourism activities, integration of heritage in urban planning, and local communities’ perspectives. Future research may be conducted in evolving areas like heritage tourism around volcanic regions, analyzing indigenous people’s psychological constructs towards involvement in heritage tourism, and promoting international festivals in heritage places.
Purpose
This study aims to provide an objective analysis of the state-of-the-art and intellectual development of publications related to event study methodology in business research.
Design/methodology/approach
The sample includes 1,219 papers related to event study methodology, covering all business disciplines and spanning 34 years from 1983 to 2016.
Findings
Through three stages of primary analysis, namely, initial sample, citation and co-citation analyses, the authors identified the publication trends, supplementary techniques, influential publications and intellectual clusters in the area of event study methodology in business.
Research limitations/implications
The findings serve as a benchmark for the extensive literature related to event study methodology in business and may facilitate the transference of the amassed useful techniques among disciplines and the identification of future research directions.
Originality/value
The current study represents as a pioneering effort to review event study-related publications using bibliometric analysis.
This study carries out a mapping analysis of published research on the topics of value co-creation and co-destruction in tourism, based on a review of 268 articles from 80 journals listed in the Web of Science database, published between 2011 and 2019. A bibliographic coupling method using VOSViewer application was carried out. The analysis suggests four distinct streams of research, including: (1) the intertwined relationship between information and communication technologies and destination management in improving customers' experience, (2) co-creation from a social perspective, (3) customer satisfaction and loyalty and, (4) co-creation experience in the sharing economy. The findings also show that co-destruction research in tourism is a topic that is still very much in the early stages.
The study of tourism and hospitality has been carried out from different academic perspectives, disciplines and fields of knowledge. This paper has focused on the main disciplines in the Spanish tourism and hospitality. For this, the scientific output of the Spanish researchers in tourism and hospitality has been studied. The bibliometric analysis was performed using the Scopus database from 2002 to 2013. Findings showed that the fields of study in relation to Economics and Business stand out greatly in Spanish tourism and hospitality research. In particular, three relevant areas have been detected, such as Applied Economics, Marketing and Business Administration. However, no significant differences have been found between these three areas with respect to the bibliometric indicators used.
The Journal of Small Business Management is a highly respected journal publishing research about small business and entrepreneurship. Using bibliometric analysis, this study presents an overview of the major trends and themes in its published content from 1996 to 2019. Over the years, the journal has grown significantly in terms of both publications and citations with authors from the United States remaining the dominant contributors to the journal. The bibliographic coupling of the articles reveal that entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, family firms, board composition, and internationalization are among the major themes pursued by the contributors.
This study introduces MAK approach to investigate intellectual structure of fields which
combines text-net analysis (TNA), latent dirichlet allocation (LDA), and co-citation analysis. Researchers have previously deployed co-citation analysis to reveal the intellectual structure of fields. However, in these applications, the research has two technical limitations—small representativeness in datasets analyzed and the primary consideration for dated documents—towards the co-citation analysis. These limitations impede the formation of a larger picture in the structure. The present study seeks to eliminate these limitations by utilizing TNA and LDA methods as topic modeling approaches for 38,368 journal articles as references with 125,154 appearances in 2680 articles published between 1980 and 2019 in the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). We suggest researchers should embrace MAK approach as complementary approach to research, with its focus on the intellectual structures of the field. We provide a workfow to show potential research applications and address advantages and limitations associated with the two new methods.
This study critically examines, using a co‐citation approach, the evolution of food and culinary tourism research in the field of hospitality and tourism (H&T) from 1976 to 2019. A bibliometric study of publications indexed in the top 16 H&T journal databases was conducted, and a total of 523 food and culinary tourism‐related documents were identified and analyzed. The research findings revealed that food and culinary tourism publication numbers in H&T journals increased after 1999 yet somehow decreased after 2017. In terms of methodological approaches and data analysis, behavioral studies frequently used structural equation modeling, while advanced methodological approaches in other domains were deemed insufficient. The study findings further reveal that most of the influential works are relatively old and that no groundbreaking or game‐changing studies have occurred in recent years in food and culinary tourism research.
Highlights
• Analysis of journal categories reveals an increase in the number of articles published in H&T journals after 1999, reaching peak number in 2016. However, food and culinary tourism studies significantly declined in 2017 and attracted even fewer scholars in 2018 and 2019.
• Most of the influential works are relatively old.
• No groundbreaking or game‐changing developments occurred recently in food and culinary tourism research.
Purpose
Tourism and hospitality are industries that have been dramatically transformed by information technology (IT). This study aims to use a keyword analysis to quantitatively review how IT reshaped these industries.
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 3,282 keywords were collected from 24 high-impact tourism and hospitality journals and a social network analysis was used for the analysis.
Findings
This study contributes to research and practice by providing a visual digital knowledge map for tourism and hospitality, and seven research hotspots were identified from the results of the keyword analysis.
Research limitations/implications
A parsimonious eMarketing model for tourism and hospitality is proposed to direct future studies concerning these themes and guide practitioners in allocating the appropriate resources for IT investment.
Originality/value
This map not only identifies seven themes that explain, which and how IT-related factors influence tourism and hospitality but also demonstrates the patterns and intellectual structure of the related body of knowledge. The trend analysis indicates how IT transforms the tourism and hospitality industries in terms of mode and scope.
Utilizing a scientometric review of global trends and structure from 388 bibliographic records over two decades (1999–2018), this study seeks to advance the building of comprehensive knowledge maps that draw upon global travel demand studies. The study, using the techniques of co-citation analysis, collaboration network and emerging trends analysis, identified major disciplines that provide knowledge and theories for tourism demand forecasting, many trending research topics, the most critical countries, institutions, publications, and articles, and the most influential researchers. The increasing interest and output for big data and machine learning techniques in the field were visualized via comprehensive knowledge maps. This research provides meaningful guidance for researchers, operators and decision makers who wish to improve the accuracy of tourism demand forecasting.
Destination branding is an important research area and a powerful instrument for building the positioning of tourist destinations. The main objective of this study is to analyze the state-of-the-art research of destination branding. A bibliometric and a fractional accounting network mapping analysis were conducted using the Web of Science and Scopus online databases. The research identifies trends focused along different lines: strategy, experience, customer-based brand equity, place attachment, destination loyalty, word-of mouth, and social media. Although there have been some research on destination branding, to date, there has been no in-depth analysis that addresses the trends in destination branding. This work therefore contributes to the existing research by showing the state-of- the-art of research on destination branding, identifying trends and proposing future research lines and topics.
Purpose
Tourism review (TR) celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2020. The purpose of this paper is to proffer a holistic overview of TR based on bibliometric analyses of the publications from 2001 to 2019.
Design/methodology/approach
The research method entails performance analyses and science mapping analyses on TR. The performance analyses engage a sequence of bibliometric statistics, including citation analysis, most cited authors and papers, most influential and productive authors, countries and institutions to name a few. The authors also used visualization of similarities viewer to perform the science mapping analysis of TR based on co-citations of cited authors, bibliographic couplings of authors and countries and co-occurrences of authors’ keywords from 2001 to 2019 and from 2014 to 2019. To examine the thematic evolution using SciMAT, a de-duplicating process was conducted in which 1,485 keywords were refined to 128 word groups before thematic evolution map and strategic diagrams for the three sub-periods were generated.
Findings
The thematic evolution map revealed ten thematic areas. The key themes of each of these thematic areas are destination studies, tourism destination and hospitality tourism; destination studies, competitiveness and innovations, co-operations and experience tourism; business studies, sports tourism, tourism destination and satisfaction; quality studies, networks, social studies and co-operation; business model and sports tourism; tourism management and tourism destination; political studies, perception and satisfaction; political studies, sustainability studies, social studies and health tourism; behavior, perception and satisfaction; and cultural tourism and tourism destination.
Research limitations/implications
The study has managed to unveil the key trends of publications, authors, affiliations, nations and authors’ keywords. The findings are useful for potential authors to have a quick snapshot of what is expected from and what is happening in TR.
Originality/value
The study serves as a historical record of TR’s publications. It presents comprehensive bibliometric analyses of the publications in TR and identifying the key research trends.
This work represents a contribution by showing the state of the art of research on rural tourism and development, identifying trends and proposing future lines and topics of research. Rural tourism and its influence on the economic development of rural areas has been an important and dynamic area of research since 2004. For this purpose, a quantitative bibliometric analysis of the 892 documents related to this topic contained within the Web of Science Core Collection has been carried out. Results show that studies on rural tourism mainly focus on Spain, Romania, and China. However, the most prolific authors are from Portugal, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States. There is a notable lack of studies focused on countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, mainly due to political and religious factors. Rural tourism is also an important and emergent sector, particularly in countries like Romania and China.
Purpose
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the current state of social media literature by examining co-word network analysis and thematic keyword analysis of both scholars and hospitality and tourism journals in three sub-periods (2002-2006, 2007-2012 and 2013-2018).
Design/methodology/approach
This research used a bibliometric analysis of social media literature in the field of hospitality and tourism by synthesizing the literature of a large sample of 601 studies over an extended time period (2002-2018).
Findings
The jump in the number of examined contexts, platforms, methodological approaches and research implications during 2007-2012 has marked the start of social media as a new phenomenon in hospitality and tourism research. Interestingly, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management was a leading contributor to social media research between 2017 and 2018. The period 2013-2018 has witnessed newly emerging trends such as “big data,” “e-tourism,” “green experience” and “smart tourism.” This study’s analysis indicated that few keywords in social media appeared in the maturity stage. New platforms such as “Expedia,” “Foursquare,” “Flickr,” “Pinterest,” “Couchsurfing” and “Twitter” appeared between 2013 and 2018.
Originality/value
The scope of past research on the evolution of social media was limited to either a few of the most popular cited journals and/or analysis within a narrow time span. In contrast, the present study aims to uncover the rapid progress in social media research between 2002 and 2018, addressing growth in breadth and depth of thematic areas. Finally, this paper concluded with the proposal of knowledge-based life cycle framework that identifies key themes related to social media research. This framework provided insights into what has been addressed in previous literature (maturity and decline stages) and reported the topics that have been under-researched (introduction and growth stages).
Purpose
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research intellectual structures are analysed and compared on the basis of the main international journals of management and tourism.
Design/methodology/approach
Document co-citation, author co-citation and word co-occurrence are carried out using UCINET and NODEXL, software for social network analysis (SNA).
Findings
Differences and similarities between both research fields are provided, study limitations are pointed out and future research lines are suggested.
Originality/value
The main works concerning the topic of CSR are identified for each area of knowledge management and tourism. These are the basis for constructing the corresponding knowledge, and co-citation patterns among them are shown graphically.
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine Airbnb research using bibliometric methods. Using research performance analysis, this study highlights and provides an updated overview of Airbnb research by revealing patterns in journals, papers and most influential authors and countries. Furthermore, it graphically illustrates how research themes have evolved by mapping a co-word analysis and points out potential trends for future research.
Design/methodology/approach
The methodological design for this study involves three phases: the document source selection, the definition of the variables to be analyzed and the bibliometric analysis. A statistical multivariate analysis of all the documents’ characteristics was performed with R software. Furthermore, natural language processing techniques were used to analyze all the abstracts and keywords specified in the 129 selected documents.
Findings
Results show the genesis and evolution of publications on Airbnb research, scatter of journals and journals’ characteristics, author and productivity characteristics, geographical distribution of the research and content analysis using keywords.
Research limitations/implications
Despite Airbnb having a history of 10 years, research publications only started in 2015. Therefore, the bibliometric study includes papers from 2015 to 2019. One of the main limitations is that papers were selected in October of 2019, before the year was over. However, the latest academic publications (in press and earlycite) were included in the analysis.
Originality/value
This study analyzed bibliometric set of laws (Price’s, Lotka’s and Bradford’s) to better understand the patterns of the most relevant scientific production regarding Airbnb in tourism and hospitality journals. Using natural language processing techniques, this study analyzes all the abstracts and keywords specified in the selected documents. Results show the evolution of research topics in four periods: 2015-2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Purpose
This study aims to identify intellectual structures, emerging trends and future research opportunities via a bibliometric analysis of senior tourism research from 1998 until 2017.
Design/methodology/approach
A detailed search of 700 core articles and 7,221 citations collated from Web-of-Science and Scopus was implemented and analyzed through CiteSpace.
Findings
The results reveal a slow increase in the amount of research, with six main areas of research. The most cited articles are mainly older. The USA has a solid leadership in publications, followed by Australia and China. The network of journals and institutions show a core peripheral structure where Tourism Management and University of Queensland are ranked first. The identification of structural holes, critical articles and the development of new emerging tendencies highlights the priorities in the senior tourism domain, pointing to new opportunities for research.
Originality/value
The originality of this paper consists in a temporal and dynamic analysis of the past two decades, using CiteSpace for a co-citation and co-occurrence network analysis.
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution of revenue management (RM) research’s intellectual structure in hospitality and tourism in an effort to initiate a creative discourse for RM scholars.
Design/methodology/approach
Co-citation analysis was used to examine the reference list of 343 articles over a 35-year period (1983-2018). Co-citation analysis focused on subject clustering and source knowledge evolution. Five periods were created to investigate the evolution of the RM field in the hospitality and tourism industry. The paradigm shift approach was adopted to acquire a better understanding of scientific evolution.
Findings
Findings indicated that from a Kuhnian perspective, RM research in hospitality and tourism did not go beyond the normal science phase. There is no current indication of anomalies in the form of conflict or questioning of the existing paradigms in RM research in hospitality and tourism. This might change, as the research in this realm develops further and evolves.
Research limitations/implications
This study identified issues related to research themes that have the potential of moving RM research in hospitality and tourism to the next level, enabling the paradigm shift in this discipline.
Originality/value
This study is instrumental in its outlook on the evolution of RM research’s intellectual structure in hospitality and tourism. In addition, it is the first study that considers the concept of paradigm shift in RM research context in hospitality and tourism.
Using a mixed-method approach combining qualitative and quantitative review techniques, this study analyzed 86 articles to identify state-of-the-art thematic research trends and articulate knowledge domains in the smart tourism research. In particular, the thematic analysis identified 11 themes from the current smart tourism research. Results of the co-citation analysis identified and visualized four knowledge domains as the theoretical underpinning of existing smart tourism literature, thereby supplementing, and complementing the findings of the thematic analysis. The constituents of each theme and knowledge domain were discussed to reveal critical gaps and suggest future research directions.
Research on collaboration relationships among researchers assists in understanding scientific information dissemination. Network analysis has been used in many studies on collaboration. However, understanding the co-authoring communities in collaboration networks and identifying their key researchers generally remain unexplored, although these insights can lead to an improved comprehension of collaboration relationships. The current study discovers and analyzes co-authoring communities in the collaboration networks of researchers in tourism research. Results indicate that productivities within co-authoring communities are high because of dense collaboration relationships. We also observe that location may be one of the formation reasons of co-authoring communities. Key researchers who are globally and locally important can be further identified by introducing the community centrality measure. The network robustness test demonstrates the effectiveness of this measure.
This paper has a two-fold purpose, first is to provide a review of the state of research published in the ‘Current Issues in Method and Practice’ (CIMP) section of the journal Current Issues in Tourism (CIT), and then to chalk out the overall conceptual structure of the journal during the last decade. This study combines a manual investigation with software-based analysis to answer the questions posed. The articles were manually identified for the CIMP section, while the data for conceptual structure analysis was accessed using Web of Science (WoS) database, resulting in a total of 50 papers from the CIMP section and 790 articles from WoS for the journal. Findings from the CIMP section, reveal that there is a clear movement towards introducing objective measures such as electromyography and wavelet analysis, borrowed from natural sciences, whereas overall the studies in current issues in tourism are leaning towards individual-level analysis.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic and quantitative review of published papers on smart tourism. More specifically, the paper aims to identify the smart tourism research life cycle, collaboration trends, main social structure, disciplinary approaches and foundations, research topics and methodological approaches.
Design/methodology/approach
Systematic quantitative review techniques were used to review smart tourism literature. Frequency analysis, network analysis, text mining techniques were performed on data obtained from 96 papers collected from three databases as follows: Web of Science, Scopus and EBSCOhost.
Findings
The smart tourism research life cycle has two turning points with an exponential increase: 2015 and 2017. The latter is mainly associated with the internationalization of collaboration. Social structure of smart tourism research was revealed. Many of the ideas and research trends are affected by one research cluster. Destination related articles are dominant in smart tourism research. Internet of things and tourist experience are less researched areas. Only a quarter of the articles was published in tourism and hospitality journals. In particular, there is a big gap in published papers in hospitality journals. An important gap from methodological aspect is limited number of qualitative studies with human subjects. The geographical limitation is high concentration of smart tourism studies in Korea.
Research limitations/implications
This study collected and analyzed only full papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Future research may consider including book chapters and/or conference proceedings. This study was mainly based on quantitative review techniques. Qualitative or mixed review techniques may be conducted.
Originality/value
This study is the first literature review on an increasingly popular topic of smart tourism.
Tourism Geographies is a prominently ranked journal that emerged from activities of the Tourism Commission of the International Geographical Union. It is indexed in the ‘Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management’ and ‘Geography, Planning and Development’ fields in the Scopus database and published its 20th volume in 2018. A bibliometric assessment of the articles and authors who have contributed to Tourism Geographies over its first two decades highlights major trends and dominant issues covered by the journal’s content. Key indicators include the most published and most cited authors and articles, the institutions and countries that those authors are affiliated with, other academic journals that are closely linked to the journal through citations, and the most used keywords in the journal. The Scopus database provides access to these basic bibliometric data, while the VOSviewer software enables graphical analyses and displays of co-citations, co-occurrences of keywords, and bibliographic couplings (shared references) across papers and authors. Overall, Tourism Geographies is closely linked to other leading journals indexed by Scopus in the ‘Tourism’ and ‘Geography’ fields and publishes papers from around the world. Research topics that have been most prominent in the journal include tourism development, tourist destinations, tourist attractions, heritage tourism, tourism perceptions, sustainable tourism, and travel behavior. Among the most viewed individual papers have been those addressing issues related to sustainability, poverty issues (related to tourism in poor areas, volunteering, sustainable tourism, and the environment), and community planning (sustainable tourism planning, tourist routes and movement, and new locations for tourism development).
This article is a literature review exploring academic papers focused on peer-to-peer accommodation platforms (P2P APs). The sample includes 189 published works indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, identified using 72 queries. The research question underlying the study is centered on clusters of topics and their research designs. Using a cross-citation approach, nine clusters are identified, and a research map is proposed structured around six blocks. These include i) conceptual papers analyzing the sharing economy (cluster 1); ii) demand-side papers based on the consumer behavior approach (cluster 2); iii) host papers exploring spatial patterns (cluster 3) and researching determinants of performance (cluster 4); iv) host-guest relationships, based on Airbnb (cluster 5) and on noncommercial platforms (cluster 9); v) social impact of P2P APs (cluster 6), and vi) effects generated on hotels, including economic impact (cluster 7) and comparison of Airbnb and hotel strategies (cluster 8).
Purpose
The International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management is a leading international journal in the field of hospitality and tourism management. It was started in 1989, and it turns 30 years old this year. To celebrate this anniversary, this paper presents a bibliometric overview of the publication and citation structure of the journal over the past 30 years. The purpose of this paper is to identify the relevant issues in terms of keywords and topics and who is achieving better results in terms of authors, universities and countries.
Design/methodology/approach
The Scopus database is used to collect the bibliographical material. A graphical mapping of the bibliographic data is developed by using VOSviewer software. It produces graphical maps with several bibliometric techniques, including co-citation, bibliographic coupling and co-occurrence of keywords.
Findings
The results indicate that English-speaking countries are producing the highest number of articles in the journal, followed by Asian institutions, with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as the most productive institution.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there are no papers that present a general overview of the publication and citation structure of this journal. Its 30th anniversary is a good moment to develop this study.
This article aims to provide a critical view of the global scientific production involved in cruise tourism study. Global references in this field were identified and emphasised for managing existing data to establish ‘bridges’ among researchers. Scientometric analysis was conducted on publications about cruise tourism in mainstream journals integrated into Web of Science. This methodology enabled us to identify current topics, relevant journals, authors, institutions, profitable countries, ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ collaborative colleges and the research areas considered as the epicentre of the cruise tourism debate. A significant contribution of this work is the use of indicators at the three levels of scientometric complexity, i.e. scientific activity, impact and relational character.
