What can we learn from the JATM literature for the future of aviation post Covid-19? - A bibliometric and visualization analysis

Gökhan Tanrıverdi; Mahmut Bakır; Rico Merkert

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101916

What can we learn from the JATM literature for the future of aviation post Covid-19? - A bibliometric and visualization analysis

J Air Transp Manag. 2020 Oct:89:101916. doi: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101916. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

Authors

Gökhan Tanrıverdi¹, Mahmut Bakır², Rico Merkert³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Aviation Management, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Erzincan, Turkey.
² Department of Civil Aviation Management, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey.
³ Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

This paper aims to draw lessons from retrospectively evaluating the evolution of the air transport discipline right up to the COVID-19 outbreak through the Journal of Air Transport Management (JATM), the main scholarly air transportation journal globally. As such, this study deploys a comprehensive bibliometric analysis and graphical mapping of the JATM knowledge body through CiteSpace visualization of 1483 JATM papers from 2001 to 2019. Our results suggest that while the industry has experienced pandemics and economic crises in the past, both were not dominant in influencing JATM literature neither in frequency nor in impact. That said, recovery, crisis and disruption are important key words in JATM papers not just in regard to safety and economic crisis management but increasingly also related to health concerns with recent key papers published in the pandemic and recovery management context which may have helped the industry dealing with the current crisis as well as current JATM papers on this topic assisting with preparing for a transitioning out of COVID-19 world.

Keywords: Airlines; Bibliometric analysis; COVID-19; Crisis; JATM; Pandemics; Recovery.