The Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism serves as a medium to share and disseminate new research findings, theoretical development and superior practices in hospitality and tourism. The journal aims to publish cutting-edge, empirically and theoretically sound research articles on quality planning, development, management, marketing, evaluation, and adjustments within the field. Readers of the journal stay up-to-date on the latest theory development and research findings, ways to improve business practices, successful hospitality strategies, maintenance of profit requirements, and increasing market share in this complex and growing field.
Comprised of conceptual and methodological research papers, research notes, case studies, and review books and conferences the Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism offers readers examples of real world practices and experiences that involve:
Organizational development and improvement
Operational and efficiency issues
Quality policy and strategy development and implementation
Quality function deployment
Quality experiences in hospitality industry
Service quality improvement and customer satisfaction
Managerial issues, such as employee empowerment & benefits, quality costs, & returns on investment
The role and participation of private and public sectors, including residents
International, national, and regional tourism; tourism destination sites; arid systems of tourism
Allowing readers the opportunity to share experiences and thoughts with colleagues in the field, this journal also contains several columns that examine different and valuable information sources, including:
Research notes (significant findings related to the goals of the journal)
Dissertations and master's theses abstracts (examining quality assurance & related topics)
Book reviews (recently published works that discuss the strengths & structure of the book, subject matter, readability, and discussions about the work's contribution to existing practices and knowledge in the field)
Conference reviews (highlighting & discussing specific papers presented at conferences & their importance in the field)
Web site reviews (interesting, helpful hospitality & tourism web sites)
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees; reviewers are assigned based on subject expertise.
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Journal metrics
Usage
164K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.9 (2023) 5 year IF
7.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.110 (2023) SNIP
0.708 (2023) SJR
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editor Emeritus Hailin Qu Oklahoma State University, USA
Managing Editor Dr. Daisy Fan Bournemouth University, UK
Associate Editors:
Dr. Woody Kim Florida State University, USA
Dr. Jiaying Lyu Hangzhou City University, China
Dr. Pearl Lin Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Assistant Editors Dr. Penny Chen Nankai University, China Dr. Sarah Li Tianjin University of Commerce, China
Editorial Assistant
Trinity Wu Hangzhou City University, China Editorial Board:
Billy Bai,University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Liping A. Cai,Purdue University, USA Jin Hooi Chan,Greenwich Business School, University of Greenwich, UK Cobanoglu Cihan,University of South Florida, USA Peter U. C. Dieke,Makerere University Business School, Kampala, Uganda Dogan Gursoy,Washington State University, USA Afamefuna Paul Eyisi,University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Michael Hitchcock,Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Ying Hua Huang,San Jose State University, USA Kam Hung,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Jing Ji,Hangzhou City University, China Woody G. Kim,Florida State University, USA Francis A. Kwansa,University of Delaware, USA Erwin Losekoot,Edith Cowen University, Perth, Australia Kenny Jianming Luo,Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China Martin Luštický,University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Emily Ma,University of Surrey, UK Vincent Magnini,Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA Eddy Mao, California Polytechnic University, USA Alastair M. Morrison,Purdue University, USA Nneoma Grace Ololo,University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Ángel Rodríguez Pallas,Universidade da Coruña, Spain Vincent X. G. Qi,University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR Lili Qian,Hangzhou City University, China Eve Lianping Ren,Macao Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao, SAR Chris Ryan,The University of Waikato, NewZealand Huawen Shen,City University of Macau, Macao, SAR Marianna Sigala,Sheffield Hallam University, UK J. Bruce Tracey,Cornell University, USA Eliza C. Tse,University of Missouri, USA Muzaffer Uysal,University of Massachusetts, USA Kun Zhang,Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Founding Editor:
Sungsoo Pyo,Kyonggi University, Republic of Korea
Consulting Editors:
K.S. (Kaye) Chon,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
C.R. Goeldner,University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Jafar Jafari,University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism is abstracted/indexed in: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; CAB Abstracts; CABI; CIRET; CSA; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Electronic Collections Online (OCLC); Eflow-D; Elsevier Scopus; eRTR: e-Review of Tourism Research; Food Science and Technology Abstracts; IndexCopernicus; Institute for Tourism; INSPEC; International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBZ); Intute; JournalSeek; Links@Ovid; New Zealand Bibliographic Database; NewJour; OCLC ArticleFirst; Ovid Linksolver; PSYCLINE; Tourism Insight; Tourism Research Links; Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Open access
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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