Brazilian tourism journals (1990-2018)
evaluation and classification using impact and hybrid metrics
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4867.v31i2p200-226Keywords:
Tourism science and information, Impact, Tourism journals, Rankings of journals, BrazilAbstract
We present an evaluative bibliometric study, which uses impact and hybrid measures (citations). Its object of study is the articles published in 16 Brazilian tourism journals, in 1990-2018. The article has the following main objectives: a) to evaluate the trajectory and citations of the selected articles, providing a general picture of their impact; and b) to evaluate these journals, including the construction of rankings. There is a shortage of bibliometric studies about the field of tourism in Brazil. The methodology consists of the collection and manual treatment of data, descriptive statistics and calculation of the H and G indexes. For the field as a whole, the main result is to present the increase of its impact, in the 2000s and 2010s, which demonstrates a process of maturation and consolidation. There is an “elite squad”, formed by the Caderno Virtual de Turismo, Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo, Revista Turismo – Visão e Ação and Turismo em Análise, which stands out in almost all metrics and indices, followed by CULTUR – Revista de Cultura e Turismo. Some metrics seem to indicate that Revista Brasileira de Ecoturismo and Revista Rosa dos Ventos may be entering this intermediate level. The rest of the journals have a very low impact. Analyzing citations from journal articles, the 16 selected journals depend heavily on citations made by the field of tourism. The main limitation of the research is that the set of journals covered consists of a small portion of the scientific production on tourism in Brazil.
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