Current Issues in Tourism
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Journal
Country
United Kingdom
Western Europe
Subject Area and Category
Business, Management and Accounting
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Geography, Planning and Development
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Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
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Publisher
SJR 2025
1.331
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SJR Score
H-Index
135
Citations / Doc (2yr)
7.57
Total Docs. (latest)
613
Total Citations (3yr)
6,824
Publication type
Journals
ISSN
17477603, 13683500
Coverage
1998-2026
Journal Rank
#3,033
Subject Categories
Geography, Planning and Development
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Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
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Subject Areas
Aims & Scope
Current Issues in Tourism encourages in-depth discussion and critique of key questions within the subject.
It offers a readable format for extended peer-reviewed papers, commentaries, letters and reviews, all designed to spark off further debate.
It contains both applied and theoretical work that addresses tourism inquiry, method and practice.
Lively and rigorous, it welcomes contributions from the broad gamut of subjects that make up the stuff of tourism studies.
Current Issues in Tourism is designed to be accessible to both new and experienced researchers and practitioners on a global basis.
The principal aims of the journal are to: encourage the full range of approaches which are available to the study of tourism; bring together researchers from different subject backgrounds for interdisciplinary and postdisciplinary debate; develop the theoretical base on which the study of tourism is built; provide a basis for the development of critical approaches to the study of tourism; disseminate new approaches, concepts, frameworks, methods, models and practices which may be developed in the study of tourism; and promote new research.
In addition to general papers, Current Issues in Tourism features four other sections - CIT Research Letters, CIT Research Notes, CIT Reviews and Current Issues in Method and Practice.
To find out more about these sections, including how to submit material, please click here .
New for 2017 the journal has introduced Current Issues in Asian Tourism (CIAT), 3 issues dedicated to papers on tourism in Asia.
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Detailed Metrics
| Total Docs. (latest) | 613 |
| Total Docs. (3 years) | 857 |
| Total Refs. | 39,469 |
| Total Citations (3 years) | 6,824 |
| Citable Docs. (3 years) | 724 |
| Citations / Doc. (2 years) | 7.57 |
| Ref. / Doc. | 64.39 |
| % Female | 40.4% |
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