Abstract

In this study, a bibliometric review of festival research is conducted to provide a valuable overview of the current state of the field, and in so doing, lays out a roadmap for future research. Based on hospitality-, tourism-, and leisure-related journals indexed in Scopus database, performance, relational and intellectual structure of festival scholarship are undertaken using Biblioshiny and VosViewer software to generate descriptive statistics and social networks structures of 955 articles. For almost five decades of research effort, the last five years have been the most productive period although citation structure has been relatively low. A greater proportion of the articles were published in Event Management with Saayman M, USA and North-West University being the most prolific author, country and institution, respectively. A co-citation network analysis unearthed four major themes: (1) festival impacts, sustainability, and management; (2) festival quality, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions; (3) festival authenticity, experiences, and revisit intentions; and (4) motivation and segmentation. This study is the first to undertake a performance and social structure analysis of prior festival research using bibliometric methodology.

摘要

在这项研究中，对节日研究进行了文献计量学回顾，以提供对该领域当前状态的有价值的概述，并在此过程中为未来的研究制定了路线图。基于在 Scopus 数据库中索引的酒店、旅游和休闲相关期刊，使用 Biblioshiny 和 VosViewer 软件进行节日奖学金的表现、关系和知识结构，以生成 955 篇文章的描述性统计数据和社交网络结构。在近五年的研究努力中，过去五年是最高产的时期，尽管引用结构相对较低。更大比例的文章发表在Event Management上美国 Saayman M 和西北大学分别是最多产的作者、国家和机构。共引网络分析揭示了四个主要主题：（1）节日影响、可持续性和管理；(2) 节日质量、满意度和行为意向；(3) 节日真实性、体验和重游意向；(4) 动机和细分。本研究首次使用文献计量学方法对先前的节日研究进行绩效和社会结构分析。