Category: Research profiling

  • Mapping the Healthcare Service Quality Domain: A Bibliometric Analysis (full-text)

    Quality in healthcare services has become a subject of study, acquiring a special connotation for both individual and collective health services. The aim of this study is to examine the scientific literature on healthcare service quality indexed in SCOPUS between 1994 and 2015. A bibliometric study was conducted using the SCOPUS database along with a…

  • Institutional shaping of research priorities: A case study on avian influenza

    Since outbreaks in 2003, avian influenza has received a considerable amount of funding and become a controversial science policy issue in various respects. Like in many other global and multidisciplinary societal problems fraught with high levels of uncertainty, a variety of perspectives have emerged over how to “tackle” avian influenza and public voices have expressed…

  • Changes in the structures and directions of destination management and marketing research: A bibliometric mapping study, 2005–2016

    The growing importance of destinations as loci for change in tourism systems has led to the recent accelerated growth of destination management and marketing (DMM) research. This paper conducts an integrated exploration of the structure and interconnections, and the dynamics of the recent growth of DMM research in terms of research fronts and trajectories. A…

  • Electromobility research in Germany and China: structural differences

    Electromobility (e-mobility) is applicable to issues from sustainable transportation to revolutionary driving behaviour. The wide-ranging influence of this concept calls for a shift toward an internationalization of e-mobility research in developed and developing countries alike. Germany and China, as the major exporters and volume producers in the automotive industry, have established the goal of becoming…