Journal profile
Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research
ISSN 2659-3580 · INVESTUR (Asociaciones de Investigaciones y Estudios de Turismo) · Spain
Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 6 weeks (community reports); 57 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research is published by INVESTUR (Asociaciones de Investigaciones y Estudios de Turismo). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research, Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies and Community-based Tourism Development and Sustainability, together about 47.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
JOURNAL OF TOURISM AND HERITAGE RESEARCH (www.jthr.es) is an international, electronic and quarterly scientific journal, specialized in Tourism focusing on competitiveness, development, maintenance and growth of tourist destinations with the purpose of publishing advances and results of original research that allows to disseminate among researchers, students and teachers the vanguard knowledge of tourism as a social and economic phenomenon that impacts with a critical sense for its sustainability. In this sense the topics to be discussed are:
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 23, Portugal 2, Argentina 2, Mexico 1 (28 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchSocial Sciences23.1%
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences14.1%
- Community-based Tourism Development and SustainabilitySocial Sciences10.3%
- Archaeology and Cultural HeritageSocial Sciences10.2%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities7.9%
- Cultural Identity and HeritageArts and Humanities5.1%
- Culinary Culture and TourismAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.7%
- Religious Tourism and SpacesSocial Sciences3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.01OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 579 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 41 | 41 | 0 |
| 2025 | 57 | 57 | 1 |
| 2024 | 56 | 56 | 4 |
| 2023 | 78 | 78 | 4 |
| 2022 | 72 | 72 | 3 |
| 2021 | 75 | 75 | 3 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 6 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Self-archiving
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative 3.0 Spain license Model summary
1.The works published in this magazine are subject to the following terms: Tourism Research Association (the publisher) preserves the patrimonial rights (copyright) of the published works, and favors and allows the reuse of them under the license of use indicated in point 2. © Investur, 2017 2.The works are published in the electronic edition of the magazine under a Creative Commons Attribution-No…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access and No Article Processing Charges
All articles published in Journal of Tourism and Heritage Researh (ISSN 2659-3580) are open access. Accepted articles, following peer review, are not subject to article processing charges.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Self-archiving of pre-prints and post-prints allowed and encouraged Model summary
Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate electronically the pre-print versions (version before being evaluated) and / or post-print (version evaluated and accepted for publication) of their works before publication
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- INVESTUR (Asociaciones de Investigaciones y Estudios de Turismo)
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISSN
- 2659-3580
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research
How long does peer review take at Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research?
Authors report an average review time of about 6 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: APA. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research based?
Of the 28 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Spain (23), Portugal (2) and Argentina (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-30). Last updated: .