European Cruise ports: challenges since the pre-pandemic era

Port Governance and Cruise Tourism

“…Secondly, there are many references that are cited together in these studies (co-citation), that is, two or more studies are used simultaneously as references for one or more studies (see Figure 3). Although it can be presumed that the common references among the three studies by Pallis et al [80,82,84] explain this, Figure 4 clarifies that there is also a bibliographic coupling (common references) between the studies by Pallis et al [80,82,84] and the other three studies [81,83,85]. Table 2 shows a high presence of institutions mainly from Mediterranean Europe in five articles (Cyprus, Croatia, Italy, and Greece), and Asia in two articles (China and Japan).…”

“…In terms of thematic coverage, the six articles are mainly associated with the transportation-WoS category. The data and metadata of the articles are processed with VOSviewer [67], first detecting how they intertwined through a time series of auto-cites the studies by Pallis et al [80,82,84], as the first two studies [80,82] are also cited by Corluka et al [81] (see Figure 2). Secondly, there are many references that are cited together in these studies (co-citation), that is, two or more studies are used simultaneously as references for one or more studies (see Figure 3).…”

“…Secondly, there are many references that are cited together in these studies (co-citation), that is, two or more studies are used simultaneously as references for one or more studies (see Figure 3). Although it can be presumed that the common references among the three studies by Pallis et al [80,82,84] explain this, Figure 4 clarifies that there is also a bibliographic coupling (common references) between the studies by Pallis et al [80,82,84] and the other three studies [81,83,85]. The arcs between nodes in the relational network show the simultaneous use of these Figure 4 shows the relational graph that links its references to the set of six articles, the thickness of the arcs between nodes indicates the intensity of the relationship, and the size and color of the spheres indicate the total number of cites received by these articles in the Web of Science Core Collection.…”

“…The arcs between nodes in the relational network show the simultaneous use of these Figure 4 shows the relational graph that links its references to the set of six articles, the thickness of the arcs between nodes indicates the intensity of the relationship, and the size and color of the spheres indicate the total number of cites received by these articles in the Web of Science Core Collection. The connections resulting from the set of references connecting Pallis et al [80,82,84] and the other three articles [81,83,85] are presented in Table 3. The arcs between nodes in the relational network show the simultaneous use of these references, which shows a dense connection between them, by colors (network, blue, and green) the three clusters of references that are densely connected to each other are indicated, and the thickness of the arcs indicates the intensity of the relationship.…”

“…Figure 4 shows the relational graph that links its references to the set of six articles, the thickness of the arcs between nodes indicates the intensity of the relationship, and the size and color of the spheres indicate the total number of cites received by these articles in the Web of Science Core Collection. The connections resulting from the set of references connecting Pallis et al [80,82,84] and the other three articles [81,83,85] are presented in Table 3. These sets of references provide knowledge regarding how the amount of cruise traffic in a port system is interrelated with its infrastructure of attention, the development of the local port city, and its 'hinterland' and sustainability in its surroundings.…”