Forty-three years journey of Tourism Recreation Research: a bibliometric analysis

ABSTRACT

The Tourism Recreation Research (TRR) is a leading international journal in the domain of ‘marketing’, ‘logistics’ and ‘tourism’ since 1976. Using a bibliometric approach, the bibliographic data of all the documents (articles, notes, and reviews) published in TRR from 1976 to 2018 have been analysed. This study has primarily focused on the key indicators like the number of annual publications, citations, most cited papers, most productive authors, and the diversity of institutions and countries that have published documents in TRR. The study indicates that TRR is one of the leading journals with the growing number of publication year by year based on the key indicators as mentioned above.

KEYWORDS:

• Tourism Recreation Research
• bibliometric analysis
• VOS viewer software
• citation

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Pankaj Vishwakarma is a Doctoral Research Scholar in Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Pankaj has an interest in pursuing research on use of VR technology in tourism.

Srabanti Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor in Marketing in Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research interests are in the areas of bottom of the pyramid market, consumer behaviour and services marketing. Srabanti's research has been published in Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management, Marketing Intelligence & Planning, Journal of Marketing Communications, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, Quality in Higher education, Journal of Indian Business Research and Foreign Trade Review among others. Besides, she has registered couple of business cases in Ivey Publishing which are co-distributed by Harvard Business School Publishing.

ORCID

Srabanti Mukherjee http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3546-2251