OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 37. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts	183
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	144
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	129
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	114
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	102
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	95
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	91
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	86
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	82
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	67
Evaluating the effects of hotel location on the adoption of green management strategies and hotel performance	62
Correction	62
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	59
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations	59
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector	58
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	55
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	53
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	52
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	52
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	52
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	50
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	47
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	46
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations	46
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset	46

Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	45
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	44
Visitors’ values and perceptions of seal watching management in Northwestern Iceland	44
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity	43
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	40
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	39
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia	39
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	39
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	38
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	38
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	38
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	37
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	37