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

Abstract

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. 

Keywords

• Bibliometrics; Scopus database; VOS viewer; Citations.

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