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We present a bibliometric and social network analysis of the Brazilian field of tourism, taken as the articles of 16 Brazilian tourism journals. Utilizing keywords, we describe and evaluate its trajectory (1990‑2018), with focus on the cultural tourism cluster. We study the authorship (authors, institutions and geographic distribution), journals (dispersal of publication), impact and intellectual structure of the cluster. It is clearly delimited, and includes “expected” keywords that orbit around cultural tourism, culture and heritage. Authorship is relatively fragmented; there is an overrepresentation of the Northeast Region of Brazil. In the references, there is a distinct social sciences orientation; there are relatively few authors and texts concerned with cultural tourism as a market segment. Margarita Barretto’s dominance and centrality in the intellectual structure is clear. Concerning the impact, the cluster has an average of actual citations per article just below that verified for the field.

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of a total of 113 publications released between 1996 and 2021 that analyse academic training in sustainability in tourism universities worldwide. The main objective of this analysis is to identify the most relevant research in this field and the most current research trends in the Web of Science database. To this end, we carried out a review of the productivity of the most prolific authors, journals and geographical regions. This was followed by analyses of co-authorship networks and keyword co-occurrences.

This research provides an empirical overview of articles and authors referring to research on wine tourism, analyzed from 2000 to 2021, and what they contribute to deepening the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8. The articles were examined through a bibliometric approach based on data from 199 records stored in the Web of Science (JCR), applying traditional bibliometric laws, and using VOSviewer for data processing and metadata. The results highlight an exponential increase in scientific production without interruptions between 2005 and 2020, with a concentration in only 35 highly cited authors, where the hegemony is held by Australia, among the co-authorship networks of worldwide relevance. The main topics observed in the literature are local development through wine tourism, sustainability and nature conservation, and strategies for sustainable development. Finally, there are six articles with great worldwide influence in wine tourism studies that maintain in their entirety the contribution made by researchers affiliated with Australian universities.

This study aims to identify research trends associated with the development of brand management in the tourism sector. To this end, bibliometric analysis has been carried out, using the R Core Team 20201-Bibliometrix software, on the scientific production, the most influential countries, authors, and journals, and the co-occurrence of keywords in the 1421 articles published to date in the Scopus database. This analysis was then complemented with a systematic qualitative evaluation using the PRISMA technique. The results obtained show the trend and impact of the literature published to date and the established and emerging research groups. Furthermore, they identify that research procedures related to brand communities, co-branding, brand architecture, positioning, and brand research in the tourism sector need to be strengthened. Therefore, this study identifies key research questions in a way that provides a planning framework for future research in this field.

Tourism is an important sector of the industry with global influence on the economy and development while global change is nowadays a major challenge worldwide. This study aims to present a bibliometric analysis that evidences the trends of scientific production on “tourism” and “global change”, supported by visualization techniques provided by VOSviewer software. A total of 3519 documents were retrieved from Scopus database and the analysis includes the identification of frequencies of papers published, most influential authors, countries with the highest contributions, co-occurrences term map, author co-citations analysis, and co-citation map by countries. Our findings evidence that there is an interrelation between the terms “tourism” and “global change” and that the literature on that topic has experienced sustained growth worldwide through collaboration networks including several prolific authors.