This study critically examines, using a co‐citation approach, the evolution of food and culinary tourism research in the field of hospitality and tourism (H&T) from 1976 to 2019. A bibliometric study of publications indexed in the top 16 H&T journal databases was conducted, and a total of 523 food and culinary tourism‐related documents were identified and analyzed. The research findings revealed that food and culinary tourism publication numbers in H&T journals increased after 1999 yet somehow decreased after 2017. In terms of methodological approaches and data analysis, behavioral studies frequently used structural equation modeling, while advanced methodological approaches in other domains were deemed insufficient. The study findings further reveal that most of the influential works are relatively old and that no groundbreaking or game‐changing studies have occurred in recent years in food and culinary tourism research.

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美食旅游文献中的知识联系：共同引文方法

这项研究使用共引方法对1976年至2019年期间酒店和旅游（H＆T）领域中食品和烹饪旅游研究的演变进行了严格审查。对前16个H＆T期刊数据库中索引的出版物进行了文献计量研究。 ，总共确定和分析了523份与食品和烹饪旅游相关的文件。研究结果表明，H＆T期刊上的食品和烹饪旅游出版物数量在1999年以后增加了，但在2017年之后有所下降。就方法论和数据分析而言，行为研究经常使用结构方程模型，而其他领域的先进方法论则被认为是不足的。 。