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Abstract
Agriculture and consumptive function of countryside (rural areas) are connected which should be reflected in scientific research. In order to test relationships, we selected the topic of rural tourism (also agritourism, agrotourism, agricultural tourism) considering sociological conceptualization (social sciences, sociology) and methodological approaches of information sciences (bibliometrics, scientometrics) in describing fields of science or scientific disciplines. We ascertained scatter of information in citation databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar). Functionalities were evaluated, affecting search precision and recall in information retrieval. We mapped documents to Scopus subject areas as well as Web of Science (WOS) research areas and subject categories, and related publications (journals). Databases do not differ substantially in mapping this topic. Social sciences (including economics or business) occupy by far the most important place. The strongest concentration was found in tourism-related journals (consistent with power laws). Agriculture-related publications are rare, accounting for some 10 % of documents. Interdisciplinarity seems to be weak. Results point to poor inclusion of emerging social topics in agricultural research whereby agriculture may lose out in possible venues of future research.
Highlights
Agriculture and countryside are generically connected concepts, in a general as well as specialist sense
Conceptual and methodological research traditions in the social sciences notwithstanding, the main emphasis is placed on the disclosure of a long-term process which is transforming radically the very comprehension of the concept of agricultural production and rurality
We will focus on such characteristics, which define analysis of information, for example, the classification of papers, and scatter of papers in different publications as well as the choice of an appropriate terminology which, based on the review of literature, includes the ‘generic’ concept of rural tourism and some associated terms which can in a document title convey a very similar meaning
Summary
Agriculture and countryside (rural areas) are generically connected concepts, in a general as well as specialist sense. We will focus on such characteristics, which define analysis of information, for example, the classification of papers, and scatter of papers in different publications (journals) as well as the choice of an appropriate terminology which, based on the review of literature, includes the ‘generic’ concept of rural tourism and some associated terms which can in a document title convey a very similar meaning. Selected functionalities of both citation databases will be assessed as these may have an effect on information retrieval. We will try to ascertain these distributions more exactly
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