Tourism and mobile devices

Provenance of Academic Research Through a Bibliometric Study

Bibliographic Data

ID6015598
AuthorsFrancisco José Ortega-Fraile (Universidad de Sevilla, corresponding author), Miguel Ángel Ríos Martins (0000-0002-6276-2655, Universidad de Sevilla), Miguel Ángel Ríos-Martín, Cristina Ceballos-Hernandez (Universidad de Sevilla)
Year2021
Volume25
Issue1
Publication date2021-04-06
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Tourism Analysis Revista de Análisis Turístico (JTA (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2254-0644 • E-ISSN: 1885-2564
PublisherAECIT (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.53596/jta.v25i1.339
OpenAlexW4312983271, W2804197025
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

Purpose This paper aims to outline a map of all the research that exists on mobile technology and tourism archived in the two main databases worldwide (Web of Science and Scopus). Accordingly, with the identification of all the scientific articles that deal with both mobile technology and tourism, the authors seek to ascertain the evolution of mobile technology in the tourism sector through the years, countries, universities and authors and determine the various collaborations brought about between authors, universities, institutions and/or companies in various research projects. Finally, it also allows the authors to distinguish the main topics under study within the scope of ‘mobile tourism’. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methodology has been carried out. The search focused on the principal databases of bibliographic references and citations of periodical publications, such as articles from scientific journals, books and other types of printed material. Once the results were obtained in the respective databases, it was necessary to be able to work with them. In this respect, the authors had to extract the relevant data and dump it in a bibliographic reference manager, for which they chose Mendeley. After this, the tabulation of data was performed in Excel and tables and graphs were created from all the data collected. Findings The main results obtained and analyzed are the number of articles per year, countries and universities. In the same way, it is interesting to highlight the number of countries and universities that participate in each article under study. On the other hand, an analysis has been carried out regarding the number of articles per author, as well as the topics dealt with in the different articles. Originality/value This analysis reveals the role that has been played by mobile phones in tourism since the first scientific article was recorded in 2002. In this regard, in recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of articles, finally resulting in moderate figures in relation to countries (40) and universities (233) that have formed part of the subject matter under study. In contrast to other areas of research in tourism, the relevance of this subject is therefore evident, as is the need for greater background knowledge to establish research models adapted to the new reality of tourism in a world of ever-increasing mobility

Business · Data science · Identification (biology · Library science · MEDLINE · Ms excel · Political science · Principal (computer security · Scope (computer science · Scopus · Tourism · Web of science · Work (physics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Engineering · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Marketing

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