30 years of contemporary hospitality management: Uncovering the bibliometrics and topical trends

PurposeThis paper aims to showcase the trends in the research topics and their contributors over a time period of 30 years in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM). To be specific, this paper uncovers IJCHM’s latent topics and hidden patterns in published research...

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Published in:International journal of contemporary hospitality management 2019-09, Vol.31 (7), p.2641-2665
Main Authors: Ali, Faizan, Park, Eunhye (Olivia), Kwon, Junehee, Chae, Bongsug (Kevin)
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authorship
Bibliometrics
Brand loyalty
Citations
Collaboration
Confidence intervals
Data analysis
Data mining
Employee behavior
Hospitality industry
Hotels & motels
Knowledge
Marketing
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Researchers
Studies
Tourism
Trends
Work life balance
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Summary:PurposeThis paper aims to showcase the trends in the research topics and their contributors over a time period of 30 years in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM). To be specific, this paper uncovers IJCHM’s latent topics and hidden patterns in published research and highlights the differences across three decades and before and after Social Sciences Citation indexing.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 1,573 documents published over 199 issues of IJCHM were analyzed using two computational tools, i.e. metaknowledge and structural topic modeling (STM), as the basis of the mixed method. STM was used to discover the evolution of topics over time. Moreover, bibliometrics (and network analysis) were used to highlight IJCHM’s top researchers, top-cited references, the geographical networks of the researchers and differences in the collaborative networks.FindingsThe number of papers published continually increased over time with changes of key researchers publishing in IJCHM. The co-authorship networks have also changed and revealed an increasing diversity of authorship and collaborations among authors in different countries. Moreover, the variety of topics and the relative weight of each topic have also changed.Research limitations/implicationsBased on the findings of this study, theoretical and practical implications for hospitality and tourism researchers are provided.Originality/valueIt is the first attempt to apply topic modeling to a leading academic journal in hospitality and tourism and explore the diversity in contemporary hospitality management research (topics and contributors) from 30 years of published research.
ISSN:0959-6119
1757-1049
DOI:10.1108/IJCHM-10-2018-0832