Past themes and future trends in medical tourism research: A co-word analysis

Andrea de la Hoz-Correa, Francisco Muñoz-Leiva () and Márta Bakucz

Tourism Management, 2018, vol. 65, issue C, 200-211

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution of medical tourism (MT) research from a longitudinal perspective (period 1931–2016). A co-word analysis was applied to themes found in published research listed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus database services.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Co-word analysis; Thematic evolution; Medical tourism; Health tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.10.001

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