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The objective of the study is to reveal the intellectual structure of volunteer tourism-themed articles, which are one of the topics that have been studied in recent years with a systematic literature scan and to reveal the trends on this subject. For this purpose, articles related to volunteer tourism scaned in the Scopus database published between 1979 and 2021 using R software in the research were analyzed by bibliometric methods. The study included year-by-year publications, keyword analysis, common word relationship analysis, writer and magazine information, joint writer cooperation reference analysis, country publications numbers and cross-country aggregation analysis. The results of the analysis found that the majority of articles in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism (43 articles) magazine, the majority of articles on the subject belonged to the year 2020 (64 publications), and the number of articles increased over the years. Wearing (2001) is the strongest author in the network. The analysis of inter-national cooperation found that there was a strong relationship between the United States (USA), the UK (UK), and Australia (Australia). The analysis of the relationship between keywords found that "Volunteer Tourism" was the word with the strongest network. The research results provide tourism researchers with a panoramic view of the articles written in the field from a broad perspective.

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