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Review
. 2022 Jul 4:13:937312.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.937312. eCollection 2022.

Understanding Family Tourism: A Perspective of Bibliometric Review

Guanghui Qiao  1 , Yating Cao  1 , Qingwen Chen  1 , Qiaoran Jia  2   3
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Understanding Family Tourism: A Perspective of Bibliometric Review

Guanghui Qiao et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

The study performed bibliometric visual analyses of family tourism research literature from 2008 to 2021, revealing the knowledge evolution process, research focuses, and future trends in this field. A total of 132 articles on family tourism were collated from the SSCI database of the Web of Sciences core collection and analyzed by CiteSpace. The results show that the number of research studies on family tourism has increased from 2008 to 2021, however, the overall base is small. Purdue University has the highest number of publications and citations. Inter-country cooperation occurs between the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Recently, "motivation" and "benefit" have become hot topics in family tourism research, and "social tourism" has received widespread attention, revealing future research directions. Lehto and Wu are the core figures in the family tourism field, and their achievements have been highly cited and peer-recognized. This study focuses on family tourism research in different cultural situations, enriching the knowledge system of family tourism research, and encouraging future family tourism research focus more on seniors and disadvantaged families.

Keywords: CiteSpace; bibliometric review; disadvantaged families; family tourism; seniors.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Year-wise publication from Web of Sciences.
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Citation bursts of the top 13 journals.
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A time-zone view of the country/region collaboration network.
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A time-zone view of keywords with high frequencies from 2008–2021.
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Top 10 keywords with the strongest citation bursts.
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Cluster analysis of the reference co-citation network.
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Top references with the strongest citations bursts.
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The annual citation count for top 13 references from publication year to 2021.
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