The study of status of scientific products of Iran in the field of Tourism between 1998-2017

The purpose of this research was to examine Iran status concerning the quantitative and qualitative dimensions, compare with countries in the Middle East in order to be aware of Iran’s position, and help to decision-making in tourism policy-making; Also, the relation between scientific production and tourism income was examined. The present study was carried out with the Scientometrics approach. Tourism scientific products extracted from WOS database between 1998-2017. HistCite and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis and drawing of scientific maps, and for statistical analysis, Excel and SPSS software were used. The results showed that Iran has 354 indexed documents in this database. In terms of the number of documents in this field, Iran has 38th place in the world and the third one in the Middle East. Also, in terms of international cooperation in the world and the Middle East, the most cooperative works of all in Iran were with Turkey and Malaysia respectively. The results indicated a growing trend in documents number of Iran, in the field of in tourism. Hence, Considering that Iran has a good status in the Middle East in terms of the number of documents, but it has had a poor performance in terms of citations and international cooperation, which should be taken into consideration. Also, according to results, the relation between scientific productions and tourism income was significant at the level of 0.01.