AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN TOURISM JOURNALS FROM 2000 TO 2007: A GOOGLE SCHOLAR APPROACHFootnote

The authors would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments about an early version of this article. This project was partly supported by a research grant funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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