Quantitative analysis of data relating to ski tourism according to Scorpus database

• Authors: Tomasz Góra , Leon Rak , Agnieszka Pluto-Prądzyńska

Abstracts

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Background: The aim of the research was to acquire knowledge as to how the development of scientific publications looks, while also to specify the scope of research on the area of ski tourism. The research process is concentrated on the following research questions: In what way has the scientific output developed in the field of research on ski tourism? Who is the principal participant (countries, universities, authors, titles of sources) in the accumulation of research in a particular field? Method: In the process of selecting the test sample as a source of bibliometric data the Scopus database was applied. The test sample (N=1500) consisted of publications that contained such phrases in their works as “ski tourism”, “ski hotels”, “ski resorts” in their titles or key words. A general profiling of publications was conducted in order to assess the trends in scientific output and the acknowledgement of the leading co-workers in the field of research. MS Excel was applied for the purpose of supporting the process of analysis and the visualization of results. Results: The analysis indicates that research on ski tourism is one of the aspects of great tradition. This has gained increasingly great interest among academic environments, which led to the breakthrough growth in the number of publications in 2006 indexed in the Scopus database. This publication output encompasses 26 research areas. Conclusions: The principal areas yielding the largest number of publications with regard to ski tourism are to be found in social sciences and science on the environment. The main authors and co-authors in this field are as follows: representatives from the EU and the USA, while the most productive research institution is Universität Innsbruck. The author of the greatest number of publications is Prof. Daniel Scott (University of Waterloo, Canada). The EU is one of the main sponsors.

Keywords

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ski tourism; bibliometrics; research profiling; analysis of literature; physical activity

• Publisher: Institute of Physical Education and Tourism. Jan Długosz University of Czestochowa
• Journal: Physical Activity Review
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 142-148

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Tomasz Góra

• Department of Kinesiology and Health Prevention, Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000206604038

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Leon Rak

• Department of Kinesiology and Health Prevention, Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000189810410

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Agnieszka Pluto-Prądzyńska

• Department of Pathomorphology and Clinical Immunology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000264027857

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Identifiers

DOI

10.16926/par.2021.09.30

Biblioteka Nauki

1933138