| International Journal of Business and Economics Volume 18, No. 3 December, 2019 |
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Bibliometric Analysis and Trends: |
| Maria Helena Pestana |
| Department of Quantitative Methods of Business and Economics, University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon University, Portugal |
| Artur Parreira |
| CPES- Research Center and Social Studies, GESC – Grupo de Estudo de Sistemas Complexos, Universidade Santa Úrsula, Portugal |
| Wan-Chen Wang |
| Department of Marketing, College of Business, Feng Chia University, Taiwan (R.O.C.) |
| Abstract |
| This study applies bibliometric analysis to senior tourism research from 1998 to 2017, identifies its intellectual structure, emerging trends, and future research opportunities, and through CiteSpace implements and analiyzes a detailed search of documents collated from Web-of-Science and Scopus. The results reveal a slowly increasing growth of research with six main areas of research. The network of journals shows a core peripheral structure with Tourism Management ranked first. Among countries’ publications, the United States leads in volume. The identification of structural holes, keyword analysis, and development of emerging tendencies highlight priorities in senior tourism pointing to new opportunities for research. This study is different from others through its temporal and dynamic analysis of the last two decades, utilizing CiteSpace for co-citation and co-occurrence network analysis and equipping researchers and the hospitality sector with new exploration tools. |
| Keywords：Bibliometrics, Web-of Science, Scopus, senior tourism, co-citation network, co-occurrence network, CiteSpace. |
| JEL Classifications：M31. |
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