Authorship Trends and Perspectives within the Hospitality and Tourism Academy

Abstract

In 1998, a study was conducted to determine whether ICHRIE faculty believed scholars should receive the same amount of credit for single- and co-authored articles. At that time, a majority of participants indicated that sole-authors should receive more credit than those who published with others. Despite the general consensus that the fewer the number of authors involved in an article, the more credit the author(s) should receive, less than half of the participants suggested that this was actually the case. In recent years, co-authored and multiple-authored articles have become the norm across hospitality and tourism journal publishing. The current study attempts to find out the realities in authorship status within the top hospitality and tourism publications and determine whether the views on this subject have changed among the Deans/Directors/Department Heads representing U.S. ICHRIE programs. In addition, this study investigates the reasons that might have contributed towards this trend.

Keywords:

• hospitality programs
• publications
• author(s)
• co-authors
• multiple-authors