About this journal
Aims and scope
Research in Hospitality Management (RHM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research articles that make an original contribution to the understanding of hospitality and to the theory and practice of international hospitality management.
Substantive Topic Reviews, Short Communications, Viewpoints, Book Reviews and Discussion Papers will also be considered.
The journal focuses on three main areas:
1) "Hospitality (Management) Studies", includes articles related to the study of and the study for hospitality. The study of hospitality refers to studies about the essence and ethics of hospitality from a social sciences perspective, while the study for hospitality refers to the quintessential managerial disciplines of Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Marketing & Sales, and Technology;
2) "Hospitality Management Education" is devoted to articles about curriculum content and delivery methods for training and educating hospitality managers. Considering the size and scope of the hospitality industry, and the number of staff and students involved, studies on efficient, effective, and innovative ways of developing hospitality competencies are considered indispensable;
3) "Student Research Projects" considers excellent student work relating to Bachelor's or Master's research projects and theses.
Submissions undergo double anonymized peer review and the decision of the Editor-in-Chief is final.
All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication, under a Creative Commons attribution agreement ( CC BY 4.0). No charges are levied for publication as article processing charges (APCs) are sponsored by the Academy of International Hospitality Research, Hotel Management School, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences.
*Please note that Research in Hospitality Management converted to a fully Open Access journal beginning with Volume 6 (2016). Volumes 1 to 5 are free to access.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 64K annual downloads/views
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Rodney Westerlaken, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Hotel Management School, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected]
Editorial Advisor
Prof. Ian Yeoman, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Editorial Advisory Board
Prof. Julie Allan, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Alisha Ali, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Dr Michel Altan, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Dr Jan Bamford, London Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Chris Baumann, Macquarie University, Australia
Dr Marco Bevolo, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands & Marco Bevolo Consulting
Dr Derek Cameron, University of Huddersfield, UK
Dr Marte Rinck de Boer, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof. Daphne Dekker, Hotelschool The Hague, The Netherlands
Prof. Hylke van Dijk, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Norman Dinsdale, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Drs Geesje Duursma, Restaurant Partycentrum Catering De Pleats Burgum, The Netherlands
Dr Klaes Eringa, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Dr Philip Goulding, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Dr Joseph Hegarty, Dublin Institute of Technology (Emeritus), Ireland
Dr Ankie Hoefnagels, Hotel Management School Maastricht, Zuyd Hogeschool, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Prof. Cathy Hsu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Prof. Stanislav Ivanov, Varna University of Management, Bulgaria
Prof. Jay Kandampully, Ohio State University, USA
Dr Peter Klosse, The Academy of Scientific Taste Evaluation, The Netherlands
Thomas Landen, Revinate, The Netherlands
Prof. Willy Legrand, IUBH International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Luewton Lemos, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Joachim de Looij, INK Hotel Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Xander Lub, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof. Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Prof. Paul Lynch, Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Prof. David S Martin, Auburn University, USA
Prof. Frans Melissen, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof. Julio Mendes, University of Algarve, Portugal
Dr Eleni Michopoulou, University of Derby, UK
Yvonne Nassar, RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Kevin O’Gorman, Independent Researcher, UK
Prof. Barry O’Mahony, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Martin O’Neill, Auburn University, USA
Dr Ioannis S. Pantelidis, School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, UK
Dr Rajka Presbury, Blue Mountains, International Hotel Management School, Australia
Dr Sarah Rawlinson, University of Northampton, UK
Prof. Dan Remenyi, ACPI Academic Conferences and Publishing International, UK
Prof. George Ritzer, University of Maryland, USA
Hans van der Reijden, The Hotel at Auburn University, USA
Prof. Olivier Saissi, Université du Sud Toulon Var, France
Dr Zoran Simonovic, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Serbia
Dr Ana Paula Garcia Spolon, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Maarten Wessels, Entrée Magazine, The Netherlands
Prof. Karoline Wiegerink, Hotelschool The Hague, The Netherlands
Information Science Consultant: Kathy Ord – Stenden South Africa
Publishing Manager: Kelly-Anne Frith, NISC (Pty) Ltd, South Africa [email protected]
Abstracting and indexing
Research in Hospitality Management is abstracted/indexed in:
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open access
Research in Hospitality Management is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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