Resumen de Hospitality's Most Influencial Scholars: Fifteen Years of Citation Analyses (1989-2004)
Raymond Schmidgall, Robert H. Woods, Christian Hardigree
This article is the third in a longitudinal study of the most influential scholars in hospitality management education. The first study, published in 1995, included scholarly works published from 1989-1994. The second article, published in 2000, covered the ten-year period 1989-1999. This article reports on scholarly influence over the fifteen-year period 1989-2004. Citation analysis was used to assess the influence of hospitality scholars in each study.Data used in this and previous citation analyses were drawn from five major hospitality management education journals: Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, FIU Hospitality Review, the International Journal of Hospitality Management, the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. Citation analysis is a widely accepted method of assessing scholarly influence. The method has been used in virtually every academic field as a measure of scholarly influence.
