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Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1952. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex intersection of volunteer tourism, global development, and social justice. It delves into the motivations, impacts, and ethical challenges associated with volunteer tourism, emphasizing the importance of fostering cross-cultural understanding, promoting sustainable practices, and critically examining the neoliberal dynamics at play. The papers also highlight the potential for volunteer tourism to contribute to global citizenship and community engagement while addressing issues of systemic inequality and post-colonial power dynamics.

  • Volunteer Tourism
  • Development
  • Global Citizenship
  • Social Justice
  • Community Engagement
  • Cross-Cultural Understanding
  • Sustainability
  • Ethical Challenges
  • Motivations
  • Neoliberalism
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

Which countries lead Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (561 and 287 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 561 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 287 works
  3. 3 China 250 works
  4. 4 Australia 220 works
  5. 5 India 159 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 146 works
  7. 7 Canada 140 works
  8. 8 South Africa 127 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 98 works
  10. 10 Germany 87 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 27.1%United Kingdom: 13.9%China: 12.1%Australia: 10.6%6 others listed: 36.4%27%largest
United States561 · 27.1%United Kingdom287 · 13.9%China250 · 12.1%Australia220 · 10.6%6 others listed756 · 36.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Johannesburg publishes the most Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development research, followed by Griffith University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 20 works
  2. 2 Griffith UniversityAustralia 16 works
  3. 3 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 16 works
  4. 4 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 15 works
  5. 5 Deakin UniversityAustralia 14 works
  6. 6 Australian National UniversityAustralia 14 works
  7. 7 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 13 works
  8. 8 University of OtagoNew Zealand 12 works
  9. 9 The University of MelbourneAustralia 12 works
  10. 10 University of WaterlooCanada 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development include Michael E. Porter and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development?

The most cited paper in Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development is "Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: A functional approach." (E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder, Robert D. Ridge et al., 1998), with 2,597 citations. Next come "Toward a Decolonial Feminism" (2,395) and "Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research" (2,257).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: A functional approach. E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder, Robert D. Ridge et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998 2,597
2 Toward a Decolonial Feminism María Lugones · Hypatia 2010 2,395
3 Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research Marianna Sigala · Journal of Business Research Open access 12 Jun 2020 2,257
4 Anomie, ego-enhancement and tourism Graham M. S. Dann · Annals of Tourism Research Mar 1977 2,011
5 Residents’ perceptions of community tourism impacts Kathleen L. Andereck, Karin M. Valentine, Richard C. Knopf et al. · Annals of Tourism Research Oct 2005 1,709
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Where is Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development research done?

The largest centres of Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Brisbane (Australia) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 39 works
  3. 3 BrisbaneAustralia 36 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 30 works
  5. 5 Hong KongChina 26 works
  6. 6 PretoriaSouth Africa 26 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 JohannesburgSouth Africa 25 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 24 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Griffith University and University of Waterloo score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.66%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of WaterlooHong Kong Polytechni…Griffith UniversityUniversity of Johann…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 84.933.3%5.9×16 +19.9%
2Griffith UniversityAustralia 73.629.6%12.0×16 -24.3%
3University of WaterlooCanada 71.240.8%6.6×11 +7.3%
4University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 64.718.4%10.2×20 -23.7%
5University of TasmaniaAustralia 58.026.1%13.9×10 +83.8%
6Australian National UniversityAustralia 55.013.9%8.7×14 +64.1%
7Massey UniversityNew Zealand 54.421.6%17.8×10 -2.2%
8University of OtagoNew Zealand 52.116.4%12.8×12 -13.1%
9Arizona State UniversityUnited States 51.420.3%5.1×10 -1.8%
10Deakin UniversityAustralia 51.26.2%10.3×14 +85.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development, country by country

Is Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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