Bibliometric analysis of researches on street food

Abstract

With this research, it is aimed to make a bibliometric analysis of the works published in the international literature between 1975-2021 on street food, which is thought to have an important role in the attractiveness and marketing of tourism destinations. Publications on street food were accessed via Web of Science (WOS) database on February 01, 2021, with two different keywords: "Street Food" and "Street Flavor". “VOSviewer” software was used to perform and visualize the bibliometric analysis of 189 academic publications. Researches made; publication years, publication types, institutions, authors, sources, countries, languages, citations and keywords. “Co-authorship and Co-occurence” techniques, which is a citation analysis technique of prominent documents, sources, authors, institutions and countries, were used in the analysis. According to the results of the analysis, the studies were mainly published in 2019, in the article type, in the United States, in English, in the journal Food Control, by Lisa Campbell, by the researchers at Universidade Do Porto, in the year of citations in 2019, and the keyword "Street Food". was found to be. When evaluated according to years, it is seen that the research on street food has increased in recent years.