Abstract:

This study aims to identify the bibliometric profile of a total of 104 articles published by judges in the Travel and Hotel Business Journal, which was the highest factor of impact in 2019 among the academic journals in the tourism area in Turkey, in 2018, 2019 and 2020. This is the first example of the publication in this context. In accordance with the purpose of the study, bibliometric parameters for the analysis of articles were developed, formally criteria, content criteria, research design and author information categories (4 categories) and criteria for these categories (21 criteria). The articles to be studied in the research sample were analyzed in the framework of the model of these developed parameters. According to some findings of the study, it has been determined that the publication approval process of articles is more than 61-90 days, and that the topics most studied according to the topics of the articles are based on personality characteristics of individuals' perceptions, attitudes, behaviors and intentions. The research has found that the most tourist enterprises are studied in relation to the universes and that the accommodation enterprises are more studied from these enterprises. The research has shown that the qualitative research approaches are important. However, the data collection techniques have found that quantitative research approaches are more used by survey techniques, while qualitative research approaches are more used by written sources. In addition, the research has been found that the research on alternative tourism and social media and travel motivation, along with topics such as Gastronomy Tourism and Cultural Tourism, is the most referring field of research.

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