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ABSTRACT
Although numerous tourism-related articles have been published by authors affiliated with Asian universities, operationalized here as the “Asian Wave,” little research effort has focused on examining such authorship. Adopting a publication counting method, this study analyzes articles published in four top tourism journals from 1999–2008 that are either Asia-focused or co-authored by researchers from Asian universities. The results reveal that both Asian research productivity and Asia-related contributions have increased over time, although there have been few inter-Asia and international research collaborations in the past decade. A discussion of the Asian Wave and suggestions for its further growth are provided.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier version of this article. The authors also wish to thank Ms. Bisney Lau for participating in the data collection stage of this project. This project is supported by a research grant from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University