Abstract
In line with the qualitative and quantitative growth of academic papers, it is critical to understand the factors driving citations in scholarly articles. This study discovered the up-to-date academic structure in the tourism and hospitality literature and tested the comprehensive sets of factors driving citation counts using articles published in first-tier hospitality and tourism journals found on the Web of Science. To further test the effects of research topic structure on citation counts, unsupervised topic modeling was conducted with 9910 tourism and hospitality papers published in 12 journals over 10 years. Articles specific to online media and the sharing economy have received numerous citations and that recently published papers with particular research topics (e.g., rural tourism and eco-tourism) were frequently cited. This study makes a major contribution to hospitality and tourism literature by testing the effects of topic structure and topic originality discovered by text mining on citation counts.
Highlights
Introduction in Tourism and Hospitality JournalsMany tourism and hospitality researchers have long sought answers to questions, such as “how are knowledge and theories produced, and how have they evolved to influence academic discipline?” and “to what extent has hospitality and tourism research reached maturity?” [1,2]
This study aims to discover the academic structure of the tourism and hospitality literature by identifying salient research topics and the interrelationships of these topics by analyzing research papers published in top-tier tourism and hospitality journals over the past decade with multiple automated algorithms
Our findings on the predominant research topics in tourism and hospitality research demonstrate the areas of research that many researchers are interested in
Summary
Introduction in Tourism and Hospitality JournalsMany tourism and hospitality researchers have long sought answers to questions, such as “how are knowledge and theories produced, and how have they evolved to influence academic discipline?” and “to what extent has hospitality and tourism research reached maturity?” [1,2]. Owing to the interdisciplinary nature of tourism and hospitality, knowledge progression has been attained through the wide application of concepts, ideas, and theories in various disciplines [6]. This leads to a complex academic structure of tourism and hospitality research, creating sub-categories of diverse research topics [7]. Various efforts have been made to uncover the knowledge structure by discovering prevalent research topics in tourism and hospitality research [8,9,10]. Et al [13] proposed that citations can indicate how knowledge is diffused and utilized in knowledge networks
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