Sustainable Tourism Research Towards Twenty-Five Years of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Yıl 2018, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 1, 23 - 46, 20.07.2018

Emilio Mauleon-mendez Juanabel Genovart-balaguer José Merigo Carles Mulet-forteza

https://doi.org/10.30519/ahtr.406555

Cited By: 10

Öz

The Journal of Sustainable Tourism
(JOST) is a main journal in ‘Geography, Planning and Development’. This paper
presents a general overview of the journal over its lifetime by using bibliometric
indicators. The paper uses the Scopus database to analyse the bibliometric
data. This analysis includes key issues such as the publication and citation
structure of the journal; the most cited articles; the leading authors,
institutions, and countries in the journal; and the keywords that are most
often used. This paper also uses the visualization of similarities to
graphically map the bibliographic material. This analysis provides further
insights into how JOST links to other journals and how it links researchers
across the globe. These results indicate that JOST is one of the leading
journals in the areas where the journal is indexed,
with a wide range of authors from institutions and countries from all
over the world publishing in it. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Bibliometrics; Scopus database; VOS viewer; Citations.

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