Mohsen Fazeli varzaneh; Ali Ghorbi; Mahdi Bahmani
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The purpose of this research was to examine Iran status concerning the quantitative and qualitative dimensions, compare with countries in the Middle East in order to be aware of Iran’s position, and help to decision-making in tourism policy-making; Also, the relation between scientific production ...
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The purpose of this research was to examine Iran status concerning the quantitative and qualitative dimensions, compare with countries in the Middle East in order to be aware of Iran’s position, and help to decision-making in tourism policy-making; Also, the relation between scientific production and tourism income was examined. The present study was carried out with the Scientometrics approach. Tourism scientific products extracted from WOS database between 1998-2017. HistCite and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis and drawing of scientific maps, and for statistical analysis, Excel and SPSS software were used. The results showed that Iran has 354 indexed documents in this database. In terms of the number of documents in this field, Iran has 38th place in the world and the third one in the Middle East. Also, in terms of international cooperation in the world and the Middle East, the most cooperative works of all in Iran were with Turkey and Malaysia respectively. The results indicated a growing trend in documents number of Iran, in the field of in tourism. Hence, Considering that Iran has a good status in the Middle East in terms of the number of documents, but it has had a poor performance in terms of citations and international cooperation, which should be taken into consideration. Also, according to results, the relation between scientific productions and tourism income was significant at the level of 0.01.
Iman Raeesi Vanani; Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali
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Tourism is an important industry from different aspects for government, industry, religious groups, anthropologists and tourists. The study of the scientific trend in the tourism sector can increase the knowledge of each group, and ultimately, promotes researchers' awareness of this area and appropriate ...
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Tourism is an important industry from different aspects for government, industry, religious groups, anthropologists and tourists. The study of the scientific trend in the tourism sector can increase the knowledge of each group, and ultimately, promotes researchers' awareness of this area and appropriate decision making of business owners. The purpose of the present research is to investigate the scientific trend of tourism in all Middle Eastern countries, using the text-exploration algorithm of sequence exploration, which was selected as the most reliable scientific database of the world for reviewing articles. The purpose of this research is to investigate the scientific trend of tourism in all Middle Eastern countries, using the text-exploration algorithm of sequence exploration, which was selected as the most reliable scientific database of the world for reviewing articles. For this purpose, the Web of Science database was selected as the world's most authoritative database for reviewing articles. A total of 1141 articles were searched for the word "tourism", taking into account the Middle East countries on the database. Among the various methods for extracting and analyzing scientific trends, the valid method of text mining was selected using the Burst Detection algorithm, and this method is used to analyze and evaluate the extracted papers, which also has significant results. The results of the analysis of the articles show that some scientific areas have more repetition in the title, keywords, and abstracts of international articles which indicates the importance of these areas of science to other areas and the need for more attention to them in the field of tourism.
