The unspoken question: A response to Thomas and Ormerod

Roy C. Wood

Tourism Management, 2017, vol. 62, issue C, 390-393

Abstract: •Asks why anyone outside of academia should be interested in tourism research.•Examines the political context in which impact factors operate.•Places consideration of impact factors in wider context of obsession with metrics.

Keywords: Impact factors; Tourism scholarship; UK tourism research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.02.008

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