Hotspots and Insights on Quality Evaluation of Study Tours: Visual Analysis Based on Bibliometric Methodology

In this paper, taking 474 articles about quality evaluation of study tours in Web of Science (WOS) database as the research object, quantitatively analyze them with the help of CiteSpace 6.3.R1 software and excel data statistics, and analyze the impact of the literature data, authors' cooperation network, issuing institutions, journal distribution, and keywords' co-occurrence, clustering, and emergence factors, combined with time interval in-depth analysis and prediction, so as to present the research results in the form of visualized knowledge map. The results of the study show that the field of quality evaluation of research and study tourism an interdisciplinary field involving innovative research with multidisciplinary integration. During the decade of 2015-2024, it has experienced three stages of starting and exploration (2015-2018), rapid growth and diversification (2019-2021), and adjustment and maturity (2022-2024). From the viewpoint of authors and issuing organizations, authors are mostly independent research and have not yet formed a clustering research network. Research hotspots from the theoretical system construction and model development, empirical analysis, gradually shifted to user behavior analysis and recommendation system research. The future tends to research on research and learning integration intelligent decision-making, research and learning industry economy, environmental tourism practice and risk management.

@article{Deng2025,
  title     = {Hotspots and Insights on Quality Evaluation of Study Tours: Visual Analysis Based on Bibliometric Methodology},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {16},
  number    = {1},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Meihua Deng},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2025.0160121},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2025.0160121}
}