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Tourism research from its inception to present day: Subject area, geography, and gender distributions
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 11, p e0206820 (2018), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018.
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Abstract
- This paper uses text data mining to identify long-term developments in tourism academic research from the perspectives of thematic focus, geography, and gender of tourism authorship. Abstracts of papers published in the period of 1970-2017 in high-ranking tourist journals were extracted from the Scopus database and served as data source for the analysis. Fourteen subject areas were identified using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) text mining approach. LDA integrated with GIS information allowed to obtain geography distribution and trends of scholarly output, while probabilistic methods of gender identification based on social network data mining were used to track gender dynamics with sufficient confidence. The findings indicate that, while all 14 topics have been prominent from the inception of tourism studies to the present day, the geography of scholarship has notably expanded and the share of female authorship has increased through time and currently almost equals that of male authorship.
- Subjects :
- Male
Databases, Factual
Text Mining
Population Dynamics
Social Sciences
Distribution (economics)
lcsh:Medicine
Social Networking
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Sociology
Regional science
Data Mining
Psychology
lcsh:Science
Marketing
Travel
Multidisciplinary
Geography
Statistics
05 social sciences
Subject (documents)
Identification (information)
Scholarship
Social Networks
Physical Sciences
symbols
Female
Information Technology
Network Analysis
Research Article
Computer and Information Sciences
Scopus
Research and Analysis Methods
Latent Dirichlet allocation
symbols.namesake
0502 economics and business
Humans
Statistical Methods
Scientific Publishing
Behavior
Motivation
Population Biology
Social network
business.industry
Research
lcsh:R
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Communications
Geographic Distribution
Authorship
Cognitive Science
050211 marketing
lcsh:Q
business
Mathematics
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Tourism
Forecasting
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e596d06809f42b37c578085c93e0bfcd