| Summary: | The Journal of Sustainable Tourism (JOST) is a main
journal in ‘Geography, Planning and Development’. The
concept of sustainable tourism has gained importance over
time. This paper presents a general overview of the journal
over its lifetime by using bibliometric indicators. Moreover,
in order to establish the position of sustainable tourism
research, this paper identifies the trends in research
through bibliometric studies. It uses the Scopus database to
analyse the bibliometric data. This analysis includes key
issues such as the publication and citation structure of the
journal; the most cited articles; the leading authors,
institutions, and countries in the journal; and the keywords
that are most often used. This paper also uses the
visualization of similarities to graphically map the
bibliographic material. This analysis provides further
insights into how JOST links to other journals and how it links researchers across the globe. These results indicate
that JOST is one of the leading journals in the areas where
the journal is indexed, with a wide range of authors from
institutions and countries from all over the world
publishing in it. The results of the current study can
provide insights into topics related to sustainable tourism
that can be researched in the future.
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