Information Systems Management Tools: An Application of Bibliometrics to CSR in the Tourism Sector

Abstract

Increasingly, the literature highlights the importance of implementing and developing socially responsible behaviours by all stakeholders in the tourism sector. This paper describes the evolution of research on social responsibility in the tourism sector until July 2020. We compiled a database of 846 articles focused on the field and published in academic journals in the ISI WoS database. Bibliometric methods and techniques were used to describe the evolution of scientific activity, countries and active institutions, most productive authors, most relevant sources, most influential documents, trend topics, and social structure researched. This determined the state of the art and described the evolution of the literature in this field, and will help scholars refine existing and initiate new research agendas. A total of 846 papers were identified and the results showed an upward trend in scientific production relating corporate social responsibility (CSR) to tourism. Based on these analyses, possible forms of future research are proposed to advance towards the consolidation of this scientific discipline.

Descriptive Elements and Conceptual Structure of Glass Ceiling Research

“…Another limitation may be related to the fact that the study used abstracts and titles rather than full text to select papers. However, as already pointed out by Vázquez-Carrasco and López-Pérez [64] and Lechuga Sancho et al [25], although it is necessary to mention certain research limitations, we should also bear in mind that the shortcomings of these studies are inherent to bibliometric analysis as a genre.…”

“…The correct application of the bibliometric methodology to the set of papers that make up the research conducted on a particular topic requires the examination of the main variables related to bibliometric research. Basing on some proposals from the academic literature [25], the selection of the main indices to be analyzed in this bibliometric study revolves around the following points: (i) trend in scientific production (years of publications and average of citations per year), (ii) title of the journals in which the papers have been published (core journals, source dynamics), (iii) documents (most cited papers, most frequent words, word cloud), (iv) most productive authors and affiliations, and (v) conceptual structure.…”

“…To fill this gap in the literature and to show a more realistic picture of the published research on the glass ceiling, our paper aims to carry out an exhaustive review of the scientific production of articles on the glass ceiling using bibliometric analysis. Essentially, we tried to provide answers to the following questions [25]:…”

Evolution of entrepreneurship research in the food sector: a bibliometric review

“…Following Lima-Santos et al. (2020) and Lechuga Sancho et al. (2020), we used the Bibliometrix R package for the bibliometric analysis.…”

“…Following Lima-Santos et al (2020) and Lechuga Sancho et al (2020), we used the Bibliometrix R package for the bibliometric analysis. The Bibliometrix R package is an opensource tool that includes bibliometric methods for analyzing quantitative research in scientometrics and bibliometrics (Prabhat and Suresh, 2020).…”