Forty-three years journey of tourism recreation research: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The Tourism Recreation Research (TRR) is a leading international journal in the domain of ‘marketing’, ‘logistics’ and ‘tourism’ since 1976. Using a bibliometric approach, the bibliographic data of all the documents (articles, notes, and reviews) published in TRR from 1976 to 2018 have been analysed. This study has primarily focused on the key indicators like the number of annual publications, citations, most cited papers, most productive authors, and the diversity of institutions and countries that have published documents in TRR. The study indicates that TRR is one of the leading journals with the growing number of publication year by year based on the key indicators as mentioned above.