Purpose: This study aims to address how the social structure of the hospitality management field has evolved from 1960 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach: The informal social structure of the hospitality management literature was analyzed by collecting authorship data from seven hospitality...

Purpose: This study introduces a new approach, called the social structure approach, for ranking academic journals by focusing on hospitality and tourism journals; and a hybrid metric, including the combination of the journal impact factor via citations and a social network metric, called the...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the social structure of strategic management research in the hospitality management field to determine whether a strong social structure is needed and, if so, how this structure can be enriched within the hospitality field. Design/methodology/approach: A...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the current state of the research activities of scholars in the hospitality and tourism field by analyzing the first 20 years of the new millennium. Design/methodology/approach: Longitudinal analyses using 14,229 journal articles as data source were realized...