Brazilian tourism journals (2020-2024)

description and characterization of their impact and construction of rankings

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https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v20.3439

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Tourism and information sciencie, Scientific production, Journals, Impact, Bibliometrics

Abstract

This study presents an evaluative bibliometric analysis. Its corpus comprises 24 Brazilian tourism journals; the object of analysis consists of the articles published in these journals (2020-2024), and their citations. The study has two main objectives: (i) to assess citation trajectories and (ii) to evaluate and rank these journals according to their impact. Materials and methods include the manual collection, review, and disambiguation of articles and citations, descriptive statistics, and the calculation of the H and G indexes. The results are compared with those from the 1990–2018 period through a review of literature. Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo ranks first across all metrics and rankings, generally with results far exceeding those of the second-ranked journal. Revista Rosa dos Ventos stands out in metrics and rankings based on the set of most-cited articles for each journal, approaching the results of Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo. Completing the first quartile of the most-cited journals are: Anais Brasileiros de Estudos Turísticos, PODIUM, Turismo: Visão e Ação, and Revista Acadêmica Observatório de Inovação do Turismo. Substantial changes are observed in impact rankings and in the H and G indexes when compared to the results from the 1990–2018 period.

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Author Biographies

André Fontan Köhler, Universidade de São Paulo

Graduação em Administração pela Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), Mestrado em Administração Pública e Governo pela FGVEAESP e Doutorado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo pela Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo e de Design da Universidade de São Paulo (FAU-USP). Professor Associado da Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo (EACH-USP), com credenciamento no Programa de PósGraduação em Estudos Culturais da EACH-USP. Contribuições: Conceituação, Curadoria de dados, Análise formal, Investigação, Metodologia, Administração do projeto, Supervisão, Validação, Visualização, Redação do manuscrito original, Redação - revisão e edição.

Camila Alves Segatto, Universidade de São Paulo

Student of the Bachelor's Degree in Leisure and Tourism at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo.

Luciano Antonio Digiampietri, Universidade de São Paulo

Luciano Antonio Digiampietri is a Full Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 2002), a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 2007), and the Livre-Docência (Habilitation) from the University of São Paulo (USP, 2015). Since April 2008, he has been a research and teaching faculty member in the Information Systems Undergraduate Course at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (EACH-USP), and since 2010 he has been a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Information Systems at EACH-USP. He has experience in Computer Science, with emphasis on Computational Biology, Databases, and Artificial Intelligence, and his main research interests include bioinformatics, image processing, and social network analysis.

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2026-06-12

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Köhler, A. F., Segatto, C. A., & Digiampietri, L. A. (2026). Brazilian tourism journals (2020-2024): description and characterization of their impact and construction of rankings. Revista Brasileira De Pesquisa Em Turismo, 20, 3439 . https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v20.3439

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Vol. 20 (2026)

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Articles - Tourism and Society

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