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Review
. 2023 Aug 2;9(8):e18874.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18874. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Research in tourism sustainability: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis from 1990 to 2022

Chané de Bruyn  1 , Foued Ben Said  2 , Natanya Meyer  3 , Mohammad Soliman  4   5
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Research in tourism sustainability: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis from 1990 to 2022

Chané de Bruyn et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

Although multiple bibliometric studies have been conducted to analyze publications on various topics within tourism, little attention has been dedicated to systematically analyzing scholarly production on the topic of tourism sustainability. Consequently, this paper aims to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric and systematic review of tourism sustainability. The collected data include 6326 publications retrieved from the Scopus database. The bibliometric technique consists of two major analyses: one on the domain (levels of analysis) and one on knowledge structures. The results indicated a remarkable evolution of tourism sustainability research involving authors, sources, and publications on this subject. Several associations and nations made significant contributions to this theme. Moreover, science mapping approaches were used to thoroughly grasp tourism sustainability-related research's social, intellectual, and conceptual structure. By giving in-depth overviews and insights connected to tourism sustainability and its knowledge structures, this review article has various implications for scientific study and practice.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Knowledge structures; Sustainability; Tourism; Tourism sustainability.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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PRISMA diagram for inclusion of articles.
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Annual scientific production.
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Sources dynamics.
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10 most productive authors over time.
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Network of largest 5 clusters of co-citation papers.
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Network of the largest 5 clusters of authors' co-citation.
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Network of the five largest clusters of the source's co-citation.
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Network of the five largest clusters of the Keyword's co-occurrence.
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Conceptual map of the sustainable tourism cluster.
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Cluster (#1) conceptual map.
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Conceptual map of the environment sustainability cluster.
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Conceptual map of the economic sustainability cluster.
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