Blue Economy and Coastal Tourism: A Comprehensive Visualization Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the scientific production of the blue economy and coastal tourism research fields to identify research topics and publication patterns. Accordingly, bibliometric analysis was selected as a quantitative meta-analysis literature review method. Scopus was the main database for extracting the scientific production in blue economy and coastal tourism. Various bibliometrics analysis techniques were used to analyze 476 and 49 publications in blue economy and coastal tourism, respectively. The main results are summarized as follows: (i) the number of publications in the blue economy scientific sector has increased significantly, and (ii) contrarily, a relatively small body of blue economy literature is concerned with the coastal tourism sector despite its significant role in the blue economy.

Worldwide Research on Open Innovation in SMEs

“…This approach belongs to the three most important literature review methods: systematic literature review, metaanalysis and bibliometric analysis [66]. These bibliometric studies have made contributions in various fields of knowledge, such as management [80][81][82], economics [83,84] and education [85,86]. Furthermore, bibliometrics has captured the attention of scholars in recent years due to its usefulness for a broad understanding of research fields [66].…”

Identifying the Blue Economy Global Epistemic Community

“…Establishing the comparisons in this article, in terms of meta-analytical science measurements [72], we can detail work on a generic search vector that attempts to study the Blue Economy, without the emphasis or sectoral limitations that other recently published literature has had [21,40], allowing a panoramic view of this economy type. A single database is also used, which allows a homogeneous comparison between the extracted articles-mainly Scopus articles that not indexed in JCR-WoS, given their non-homologous nature [73], establishing in this methodological aspect differences with recent bibliometric articles published on topics related to the Blue Economy [21,74]; although, with the consequent elitization of the sample, in search of defining the epistemic community and its referents, internal comparisons are achieved with a higher methodological quality.…”

“…To achieve the above, sustainable economic development must be accompanied using tools to measure the diversification of products and services, such as food production, the use of emerging energies, marine biotechnology, seabed mining, and tourism and recreation, based on a political agenda that focuses on marine governance strategies that stimulate the combination of marine industries in the most promising areas, integrating economic indicators to measure the Blue Economy [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

Achieving Blue Economy goals by implementing digital technologies in the maritime transport sector

“…Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are also known as the Global Agenda 2030, are related to Blue Economy goals. The 14 th Sustainable Development goal, "Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources" seeks to promote the sustainable use and development of oceans, seas, marine resources, and ecosystems, which are the foundation of the Blue Economy approach and its economic sectors (Kabil et al, 2021). The Blue Economy can be a driver of European growth, through the development of new competencies and activities that enable sustainable exploitation of ocean resources (Fontes et al, 2019).…”

“…The roots of Blue Economy emergence can be directly and strongly linked to the sustainable development concept. Since the 1960s, the scientific community has paid more attention to sustainable development, especially in environmental, economic, and social dimensions (Kabil, Priatmoko, Magda, & Dávid, 2021).…”