Tourism research from its inception to present day: Subject area, geography, and gender distributions

This paper uses text data mining to identify long-term developments in tourism academic research from the perspectives of thematic focus, geography, and gender of tourism authorship. Abstracts of papers published in the period of 1970-2017 in high-ranking tourist journals were extracted from the Sco...

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Published inPloS one Vol. 13; no. 11; p. e0206820
Main Authors Kirilenko, Andrei P., Stepchenkova, Svetlana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Public Library of Science 02.11.2018
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects
Academic disciplines
Artificial intelligence
Authoring
Authorship
Bibliometrics
Biology and Life Sciences
Computer and Information Sciences
Data mining
Data processing
Dirichlet problem
Gender
Geographic information systems
Geography
Hospitality leisure & tourism studies
Identification methods
Library and information science
Physical Sciences
Probabilistic methods
Research and Analysis Methods
Satellite navigation systems
Scholars
Social dynamics
Social networks
Social organization
Social Sciences
Sociology
Sports management
Studies
Tourism
Trends
Florida
United States > US
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Summary:This paper uses text data mining to identify long-term developments in tourism academic research from the perspectives of thematic focus, geography, and gender of tourism authorship. Abstracts of papers published in the period of 1970-2017 in high-ranking tourist journals were extracted from the Scopus database and served as data source for the analysis. Fourteen subject areas were identified using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) text mining approach. LDA integrated with GIS information allowed to obtain geography distribution and trends of scholarly output, while probabilistic methods of gender identification based on social network data mining were used to track gender dynamics with sufficient confidence. The findings indicate that, while all 14 topics have been prominent from the inception of tourism studies to the present day, the geography of scholarship has notably expanded and the share of female authorship has increased through time and currently almost equals that of male authorship.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0206820