Brazilian field of tourism (1990-2018): description and analysis of the research methodology of the journal articles with most impact (citations)

• Autor(a) principal: Köhler, André Fontan
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Costa, Renato Eliseu, Digiampietri, Luciano Antonio, Rodrigues, Andrea Leite
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/45474
• topic: Turismo; Impacto; Metodologia de pesquisa; Revisão sistemática; Bibliometria; Tourism; Impact; Research methodology; Systematic review; Bibliometrics; Turismo; Impacto; Metodología de investigación; Revisión sistemática; Bibliometría

Objective: We describe and analyze the research methodology of the 70 articles most cited of the Brazilian field of tourism (1990-2018), regarding their nature, level of depth, design, method, and techniques, as well as to classify them as tourist business study or non-business tourist study. It is also evaluated what the aggregated results mean for the field. Methodology: To calculate the impact of journal articles, we made a bibliometric analysis. For the description and analysis of the research methodology of the 70 most cited articles, as well as the classification as tourist business study or non-business tourist study, we carried a systematic review. Results: There is a clear prevalence of qualitative research (94.29%), most of them of the exploratory deductive type, both those that start from a general theme, and try to apply a literature review to a specific situation, as well as those that are, in general, essays and opinionated and/or normative texts. Most of the 70 articles is composed by non-business tourist studies, especially the most recently published works. Conclusions: The growth in the number of journals and articles published has not yet been accompanied by the practice of taking previous works as seminal, citing them, and continuing their purpose for deepening the study.