RT Journal Article T1 Cultural heritage and tourism basis for regional development: mapping of scientific coverage A1 Álvarez García, José A1 Maldonado Erazo, Claudia Patricia A1 Del Rio Rama, María de la Cruz A1 Castellano Álvarez, Francisco Javier K1 5312.90 Economía Sectorial: Turismo K1 5403.01 Geografía Cultural K1 5401.04 desarrollo Regional AB The aim of this research is to carry out a bibliometric and bibliographic study of the scientific production indexed in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) on the use of cultural heritage by tourism as an alternative for regional development. This research allows us to observe the current situation of this area of study and to develop a research roadmap on this subject. The methodology used focuses on applying productivity, dispersion, collaboration, and citation indicators to a set of 103 articles identified through an advanced search of terms, in addition to applying an iterative analysis for the bibliographic study. The main findings of this study show that the documents are mostly analytical, mainly signed by a single author, and the productivity rate per author is 1.04. The co-author index in the subject is 2.34, and the subject is in an exponential growth phase that began in 2004, with a ratio of 6.53 articles/year, with the majority of the production being by a single author per article. The country with the highest production is China, with 28 articles, 26 authors, 28 authorships, and 15 centers, followed by the Russian Federation, with 21 articles. Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia) is the most productive institution, with 15 authorships, and there is a group of aspiring authors (between 2 and 4 articles) whose geographical affiliation is Malaysia, a group that represents 3% of the total of authors and concentrates 17 articles. PB Sustainability SN 20711050 YR 2019 FD 2019-10-30 LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1577 UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1577 LA eng NO Sustainability, 11(21): 6034 (2019) NO European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) | Ref. GR18052 DS Investigo RD 18-sep-2024