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ReviewEnvironment, development and sustainability2023

Ecotourism and sustainable development: a scientometric review of global research trends.

Lishan Xu, Changlin Ao, Baoqi Liu, Zhenyu Cai

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Review in Environment, development and sustainability, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lishan XuDepartment of Management Science and Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030 China.
Changlin AoDepartment of Management Science and Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030 China.ORCID 0000-0001-8826-7356
Baoqi LiuDepartment of Management Science and Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030 China.
Zhenyu CaiDepartment of Management Science and Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030 China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the increasing attention and awareness of the ecological environment, ecotourism is becoming ever more popular, but it still brings problems and challenges to the sustainable development of the environment. To solve such challenges, it is necessary to review literature in the field of ecotourism and determine the key research issues and future research directions. This paper uses scientometrics implemented by CiteSpace to conduct an in-depth systematic review of research and development in the field of ecotourism. Two bibliographic datasets were obtained from the Web of Science, including a core dataset and an expanded dataset, containing articles published between 2003 and 2021. Our research shows that ecotourism has been developing rapidly in recent years. The research field of ecotourism spans many disciplines and is a comprehensive interdisciplinary subject. According to the research results, the evolution of ecotourism can be roughly divided into three phases: human disturbance, ecosystem services and sustainable development. It could be concluded that it has entered the third stage of Shneider's four-stage theory of scientific discipline. The research not only identifies the main clusters and their advance in ecotourism research based on high impact citations and research frontier formed by citations, but also presents readers with new insights through intuitive visual images. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10668-022-02190-0.

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CiteSpaceEcotourismResearch trendsScientometricsSustainable developmentWeb of Science

Identifiers

PMID35221786
PMCPMC8860366

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