Cemile TERZIER
Abstract
This study provides a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of health tourism policies for the last twenty years. The objective of the study is to reveal prominent topics, recent research trends, influential authors and popular documents. PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines were followed to carry out the study. A Boolean search of the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection was utilized to identify published documents upon health tourism policy. A total of 144 published documents published in WOS between 2006 and 2024 were analyzed via VOSVIEWER. The study uncovers a multidisciplinary field with five main clusters such as health tourism, research and development, medical destination brand, medical facility and quality. Furthermore, the study points out that there is a change in research trends upon health tourism policy. While current studies in the scope address health management and medical tourist as recent topics, relatively recent studies seem to display focus on medical destination brand, equity, satisfaction, research and development, medical facility and policy. Moreover, health tourism is realized to hold powerful interconnections with some of those author keywords such as medical destination brand and policy. Presenting a meticulous review of the literature, this study contributes insights to literature a lot. Furthermore, it functions as a guide for researchers, scientists and policy makers to set up or improve theories, policies and studies.
Keywords: Health tourism policy, bibliometric analysis, co-occurence of words, voswiewer
JEL Codes: I18, L83, O38
How to Cite: Terzier, C. (2025). Mapping Research on Health Tourism Policies: A bibliometric Analysis via VOSVIEWER. Health Tourism Journal, 1(1), 77-97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15700020
