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Article · Volume 11, Issue 1 · pp. 118–124

A Keyword Based Scientometric Analysis of Semantic Web Research in Tourism

Shiv Shakti Ghosh1, Sunil Kumar Chatterjee1

  1. 1Department of Library and Information Science Jadavpur University, Jadavpur Kolkata, West Bengal, INDIA.

Abstract

The economy of many nations sustain on tourism which is an information intensive industry and requires semantic handling of data. Semantic web research is an area that deals with technologies for semantic handling of data. In this study, the results of an investigation on the extent of semantic web research in the field of tourism have been presented. For this purpose, data was retrieved from the Scopus database. Scientometric methods that help in keyword-based analysis were applied for analyzing the data using the R software environment.

Keywords: Tourism; Semantic Web; Scientometrics; Conceptual structure; Thematic evolution

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