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Item A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL NETWORK STUDIES IN TOURISM RESEARCH(2022-01-18) AKBULUT, Haydar; TUZLUKAYA, Şule ErdemThis thesis aims to visualize and therefore analyze, the social network structure in the tourism research area by using bibliometric methods to have an idea regarding the connections between documents. The articles published within the five academic journals, in the tourism field between 1990-2019 are studied. In this study, one of the most recent bibliometric visualization techniques named CiteSpace is used. This study aims to understand mainly the research trends, centralization of journals in the tourism field in the social network aspect, as well as authors and their impacts in the Social Network in Tourism Research (SNTR) field to provide new insights into research focuses. Findings show that SNTR research experienced noticeable growth in the last decade. The coauthorship and country collaboration analyses indicate that studies from the USA, Spain, Australia, and the United Kingdom dominate the field regarding the patterns and trends. The clusters in the co-citation network tend to gather in center therefore there are many overlaps among the clusters.