Papers on “hotel employees”
Research on “hotel employees” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “hotel employees” appeared in 428 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (399), management (23) and marketing (4).
- 51 of them were published in 2025, against 14 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (15), Kyung Hee University (14) and Eastern Mediterranean University (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (121), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (19) and Tourism Management (15).
- The most-cited of them is “The effect of green human resource management on hotel employees’ eco-friendly behavior and environmental performance” (International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2018), with 1,222 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism and Hospitality | 12 | 25 | 37 | 55 | 52 | 51 | 35 | 47 | 49 | 36 |
| Management | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 14 | 28 | 40 | 58 | 55 | 51 | 41 | 49 | 51 | 41 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 15 |
| 2 | Kyung Hee University | 14 |
| 3 | Eastern Mediterranean University | 12 |
| 4 | Macau University of Science and Technology | 11 |
| 5 | Northeastern University | 8 |
| 6 | Shenzhen University | 8 |
| 7 | WSB Merito University in Wroclaw | 8 |
| 8 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 7 |
| 9 | Huaqiao University | 7 |
| 10 | Jaipuria Institute of Management | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 84 |
| 2 | South Korea | 26 |
| 3 | United States | 24 |
| 4 | Australia | 19 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 18 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 17 |
| 7 | Macao | 17 |
| 8 | Taiwan | 15 |
| 9 | Cyprus | 14 |
| 10 | Spain | 13 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hospitality industry | 63 |
| 2 | conservation of resources theory | 32 |
| 3 | hospitality employees | 23 |
| 4 | moderating effect | 23 |
| 5 | frontline workers | 17 |
| 6 | employee well-being | 13 |
| 7 | moderated mediation | 13 |
| 8 | organizational citizenship behavior | 12 |
| 9 | COVID-19 pandemic | 10 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “hotel employees”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hotel-employees
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