Research trends on food safety and sanitation in hospitality and tourism
by Bendegul Okumus; Forest Ma
International Journal of Bibliometrics in Business and Management (IJBBM), Vol. 1, No. 3, 2019

Abstract: The present study examines research trends on food safety/sanitation in 16 leading hospitality and tourism (H&T) journals from 1976-2016. The researchers developed a database of 5,333 articles related to food. Of this number, only 45 articles were related to food safety and published across eight H&T journals from 1976 to 2016. Thus, despite the size of the industry and importance of the topic, there still remains a dearth of food safety/sanitation publications. This article provides the first systematic analysis on food safety/sanitation research in the H&T context. It offers an analysis of the broad features of literature on food safety in the H&T context with a focus on international collaboration, highly productive countries, institutions and authors, methods of research, publication years, and journal distribution. In addition to highlighting a scarcity in advanced statistical research methods and international collaboration, the research findings also suggest that the majority of the studies analysed were empirical and conducted using quantitative methods.

Online publication date: Wed, 06-Feb-2019

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