Research on sustainable tourism and biodiversity: a bibliometric analysis

ABSTRACT

This study intends to analyse sustainable tourism and biodiversity research from a longitudinal point of view from 1995 to 2022. Collected 290 research articles published in the Scopus database and applied rigorous inclusion and exclusion criteria to select them for bibliometric analysis. Bibliometrix and VOSviewer tools were employed to analyse and depict the research. Co-citation of cited references, co-citation on a timeline basis, and bibliometric coupling analysis are performed to examine the trends and patterns. Further, inferred a thematic structure of sustainable tourism and biodiversity, uncovering seven co-citation clusters, twenty co-citation clusters on a timeline basis, and eleven bibliometric coupling clusters. This study offers various perspectives on sustainable tourism and biodiversity research for theoretical and practical advancements.

KEYWORDS:

• Sustainable tourism
• biodiversity
• bibliometric
• cluster analysis
• trends and patterns

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Notes on contributors

Podili Harish

Podili Harish corresponding author, Ph.D. Scholar, Junior Research Fellow, Department of Tourism Studies, School of Management, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, IndiaE-Mail: [email protected].

Y. Venkata Rao

Y Venkata Rao senior professor, Department of Tourism Studies, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. E-Mail: [email protected].