Affiliations: Department of Business and Economics, University of the Balearic Islands, Carretera Valldemossa km 7, 5, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Corresponding author. Juanabel Genovart-Balaguer, Department of Business and Economics, University of the Balearic Islands, Carretera Valldemossa km 7,5, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: This paper aims to present a current overview of the main productive and influential countries around the world in the tourism, leisure and hospitality field. The methodology includes a bibliometric analysis in all research journals that are indexed in the Web of Science in the tourism, leisure and hospitality field in 2014 respect to the national contribution that these countries made in these journals. The study shows that USA is the country leadership in the tourism, leisure and hospitality research. Other countries, such as UK and People’s Republic of China, also get a main position in the ranking. There are not previous studies examining all the journals indexed in the Web of Science in the tourism, leisure and hospitality field during a period as wide as this one nor including as many countries as those analyzed in this paper (Top 50).
Keywords: Bibliometric analysis, web of science, country, journals, research
productivity, tourism
