Sociology of Food Tourism Research Opportunities: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This research aims to formulate sociological research opportunities in food tourism. The study used the literature review method with bibliometric analysis to find the most discussed issues and opportunities for discussing new problems that have yet to be widely discussed. This research used VOSViewer software edition 1.6.18 to analyze 3,055 research articles on the ScienceDirect website from 1999-2023. The publication period is divided into three according to the ability to download, which can only download 1000 articles in each period. This research analyzed the development of publications, publishers, scope, main keywords, clusters, density visualization maps, overlays, and research networks. The analysis found that the research on the sociology of food tourism has increased, but sociology journals have yet to become publishers with the highest number of articles. Research opportunities exist on the topics of policy, inequality, and migration. Opportunities also exist in relating new and old issues to other matters. Previous studies have yet to study many interactions between actors providing food and other actors forming food tourism destinations. It is suggested that further research covers the topics of policy, inequality, migration, sociological theorizing of food tourism, and interactions between actors in the production of tourist attractions.

Bibliometric Analysis of Sociological Research on Artificial Intelligence

“…The data search using the keywords "social" and "artificial intelligence" yielded 1,277 articles. This number is still tiny compared to the keywords "sociology" and "food tourism," which generated 3,055 articles (Purnomo, 2022), and the keywords "sociology" and "tourism," which generated 6,320 articles (Purnomo, 2023a;Purnomo, 2023b). Using the same timeframe as previous research, the keywords "sociology" and "artificial intelligence" produced only 42 articles and the keywords "social" and "artificial intelligence" only produced 1,362 articles.…”

“…Figure 5 shows that almost the entire topic is current because it is highlighted in bright yellow (Van Eck & Waltman, 2010). Potential future opportunities can be obtained by studying these topics that have not been studied before or are in different clusters (Purnomo, 2022;Yanuarti & Suprapto, 2021). Therefore, these topics represent potential opportunities to make further advances in the field, and should be given special emphasis when considering future research.…”

Bibliometric Analysis of the Trend of Sociology of Communication Research Topics

“…Table 1 shows the period, number of articles, number of samples, and sample number of keywords. The number of sample publications is determined by ScienceDirect's ability to present the maximum amount of most relevant data that can be downloaded (Purnomo, 2022). The number of keywords and keyword samples (keywords that meet the threshold) is determined by data processing in the software.…”

“…Data in the bibliometric analysis are derived from abstracts or citations of online publications (Caputo & Kargina, 2022). Research data can be taken from Google Scholar data sources (Al Husaeni & Nandiyanto, 2022), Scopus (Faruk et al, 2021), Web of Science (Xie et al, 2020), or ScienceDirect (Buele & Guerra, 2021;Purnomo, 2022). Data for bibliometric analysis can be downloaded directly from the web, such as on ScienceDirect (Purnomo, 2022), or through publish of perish for data from Google Scholar (Al Husaeni & Nandiyanto, 2022).…”

“…For example, Covid-19 topics have declined due to decreased pandemic impact. Some recent research has shifted towards postpandemic scenarios (Caffrey, 2023;Kim et al, 2022;Purnomo et al, 2022).…”