Bibliometric analysis of rural tourism articles on DergPark platform

Abstract

This study aims to determine the bibliometric analysis profile of studies on rural tourism framework in Dergipark platform throughout Turkey. For this purpose, the bibliometric profile of the articles on “Rural Tourism” published in DergiPark in the last 10 years as of 2024 has been revealed. A total of 144 articles on DergiPark platform were examined with bibliometric analysis method in the mentioned period. The obtained data were analyzed in terms of the year of the study, the first keywords of the studies, the number of authors, the titles of the first authors, the institutions of the first authors, the type of article, the language of publication, and the ownership of the study. In addition, a scan was made by considering the content of “Rural Tourism” among the keywords of the examined articles and the results were summarized with the cloud method. It was observed that the most articles were published in DergiPark between 2019-2020, 42 in total, the universities that contributed the most to studies on rural tourism were Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University and Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, the types of studies were unknown the most in terms of article type, and the words Rural Tourism, Tourism and Rural Development were the most prominent in the clouding method. It was determined that Turkish and English were used as the publication languages, 72.92% of the journals they were published in were private journals according to their owners, and 51.38% of the articles had two authors. It was determined that the first authors in the study were students with a maximum of 31 titles.