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

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 11; p. e0206820
• Main Authors: Kirilenko, Andrei P., Stepchenkova, Svetlana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...