Research in tourism sustainability: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis from 1990 to 2022
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2023
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Heliyon
Abstract
Although multiple bibliometric studies have been conducted to analyze publications on various
topics within tourism, little attention has been dedicated to systematically analyzing scholarly
production on the topic of tourism sustainability. Consequently, this paper aims to conduct a
comprehensive bibliometric and systematic review of tourism sustainability. The collected data
include 6326 publications retrieved from the Scopus database. The bibliometric technique con
sists of two major analyses: one on the domain (levels of analysis) and one on knowledge
structures. The results indicated a remarkable evolution of tourism sustainability research
involving authors, sources, and publications on this subject. Several associations and nations
made significant contributions to this theme. Moreover, science mapping approaches were used
to thoroughly grasp tourism sustainability-related research’s social, intellectual, and conceptual
structure. By giving in-depth overviews and insights connected to tourism sustainability and its
knowledge structures, this review article has various implications for scientific study and practice.
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Heliyon 9 (2023) e18874
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Tourism Sustainability Tourism sustainability Bibliometrics Knowledge structures