Where is the Policy? A Bibliometric Review of the State of Policy Research on Medical Tourism

Virani, Altaf; Wellstead, Adam; Howlett, Michael

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“…For example, Weible et al (2013) discuss how to use policy theory to influence the US policy process, while Lasswell (1970) identified 'a distinctive outlook' in US policy science [11,19]. With the growing focus on globalization, policy-makers and academic scholars became more fascinated in recognizing the quality of primary influence and dealing with national economies, international politics, and welfare systems [30]. This led to an increase in policy researches in different fields of studies after 2000.…”

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“…Therefore, it is a possible concern because even though a few research numbers are implicitly theory related, failure to make the policy test against independent empirical information is a lost opportunity for scientific theory development. For example, research on care policies has highlighted the issues that consider discoursing a transversal factor connecting actors and institutions involved in policy implementation [30]. However, it does not adequately address the idea that is also evident in theories or the gap in a theoretical dialogue of gender and politics.…”

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“…This reflects China's strength of departments, which consistently focused on policy, think-tanks and research centers, and research-driven governance and policymaking cultures. Surprisingly, the UK's collaboration with US scholars in the 1970s and 1980s [28][29][30][31] developed a range of theories and models of relationship that drives policy to stimulate research capable of producing immediate solutions. However, over the past few years, only oneeighth of the policy researches originate in the UK, Canada, and Australia's address theory, as shown in Table 1.…”

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Bibliometric Analysis of Trends in Theory-related Policy Publications

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This study's bibliometric analysis evaluates the scope and trends of theory-related policy publications in various international journals. The method used the Scopus search engine on random journals in identifying policy-related publications. The study also used a data visualization software called VOSviewer to analyze the results, underlying network linkages, and information production trends in policy analysis. The findings shows that only a few proportions of policy-related researches apply theories in their study. Field-specialized journals were having practitioners publish less research as compared to interdisciplinary science and technology journals. This article calls for greater engagements among scholars, and for policy researchers to more explicitly consider how their work might contribute to the understanding of the policy challenges. The findings also shows that it is important to recognize the approach and theory behind policy development to determine the incremental nature of aspects involved in policy development. It is extremely valuable to be clear that if one deals only with conceptual level of policy research without testing those ideas against independent empirical information, then scientific theory development is not possible. Thus, failure to consistently and clearly make theory connection towards policy research is a lost opportunity for scholars to influence policy thinking and public argument. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2021-01261 Full Text: PDF

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“…A paper by de la Hoz-Correa et al. (2018) has evaluated the MT research between 1931 and 2016 from the longitudinal viewpoint, an analysis on the evolution of policy thinking in health tourism (Virani et al. , 2019).…”

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Bibliometric analysis on wellness tourism – citation and co-citation analysis

Suban¹

2022

IHR

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PurposeTourism on wellness is a rapidly expanding segment of the travel industry; nevertheless, it is still in its infancy, and more study research is needed to develop a scientific foundation for health and wellness tourism. The study uses bibliometric indicators like as citations to determine the field structure on wellness tourism from 1998 to 2021, and the VOSviewer software to map the significant trends in wellness tourism (WT) area, to examine the present situation.Design/methodology/approachTo reach this objective, the theme of “wellness tourism” was searched in the “Scopus” database, and bibliometrics data on the publications were obtained. In total, 414 papers were found during the initial search, which was then narrowed according to the criteria. Using this strategy, the author discovered 386 records, and after removing 4 duplicates and 1 irrelevant document, the refining produced 381 related documents. The most-cited papers, significant authors, co-citation of references, sources and authors were all investigated for the publications related to WT.FindingsAccording to this report, research into wellness tourism has increased in recent years. The authors discovered two papers with over 238 “Scopus” citations and a total of 10 studies with 1414 citations. According to Scopus, the document Napier et al. receives 36.5% of citations each year. There were a total of 804 authors who published about WT between 1998 and 2021, with Smith, M, Voigt, c, and Puczkó, L being the most-cited reference authors in the subject. Han h. has the highest index of 56 of all the authors.Research limitations/implicationsThe “Scopus” database was used for bibliometric analysis, although the VOSviewer was used exclusively. This considered as a first study to utilize a bibliometric method to address this research gap, identifying the tools, journals, and, most crucially, conceptual subdomains like spa, yoga, therapy, spirituality and trekking that will be significant in future research.Originality/valueUsing a bibliometric analytic approach, this article looked at papers on wellness tourism published between 1998 and 2021. Thus, its goal is to learn more about wellness tourism and to enlighten wellness tourism scholars on the field's structure.

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“…In another study, researchers identified the emerging themes in tourism and stated that bibliometric studies can enlighten the unknown patterns in disciplines and support future theory development (Koseoglu et al, 2016). Virani et al (2019) examined medical tourism policies and combined bibliometrics and data visualization techniques. Another distinctive point of bibliometrics is the visualization of results, thus, the method increases the comprehension of potential readers in an emergent area and extends the research scope (Qian et al, 2019).…”

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Artificial Intelligence in Tourism: A Review and Bibliometrics Research

Kirtil¹,

Aşkun²

2021

Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR)

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) came up as an ambiguous concept from computer sciences and now it is being used in many areas of our life. It has stimulated academia's interest due to its alternative insights into complex problems. Therefore, a bibliometric method was applied in this study to observe the progress of AI in the tourism field. A total of 102 papers were collected from Scopus database. Key factors such as most productive authors, collaborations and institutions were identified, and research hotspots were determined using co-occurrence network and most common author keywords. Progress of AI was visualized with thematic evolution analysis. Findings indicate that there is a progressive interest in AI after 2017, and average citations signify that papers are highly cited. Since this is the first study conducting a bibliometric on AI in the tourism context, it could be considered useful for academics and tourism professionals as it provides general overview of AI, demonstrates research trends and popular papers.

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Where is the Policy? A Bibliometric Review of the State of Policy Research on Medical Tourism

Cited by 3 publications

References 76 publications

Bibliometric Analysis of Trends in Theory-related Policy Publications

Bibliometric Analysis of Trends in Theory-related Policy Publications

Bibliometric analysis on wellness tourism – citation and co-citation analysis

Artificial Intelligence in Tourism: A Review and Bibliometrics Research

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