ABS:Uzun, Social sciences research in Turkey

[Gretchen Whitney]

Author(s):  Uzun A
Title:  A scientometric profile of social sciences research in Turkey
Source:  INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION & LIBRARY REVIEW 1998, Vol 30, Iss 3,
pp
169-184
Addresses:  Uzun A, Middle E Tech Univ, Dept Phys, TR-06531 Ankara,
Turkey.
Middle E Tech Univ, Dept Phys, TR-06531 Ankara, Turkey.

KeywordsPlus:  PHYSICS PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; ASTRONOMERS;
INDICATORS; COUNTRIES; SEARCH

Abstract:  I surveyed the social sciences journal literature for the
decade period 1987-1996 looking for papers with authors, or at least one
co-author giving an address from an institution in Turkey. The number of
such papers had nearly tripled from 1987 to 1996. I found that the papers
are scattered into 341 journals and almost one third of all papers went to
nine journals, each of which contained an average of a least one Turkish
paper per year. Only two of these journals, on archaeology and
anthropology, happened to be of high citation impact. Psychology and
psychiatry, combined with business and economics are found to be the most
productive subjects accounting for about half of the publication output. A
vast majority of the papers were articles in English, and in an average
article contained about 24 bibliographic references. The number of Turkish
papers in nine major journals are somewhat correlated with their
availability in local libraries. The number of co-authors per paper had
nearly doubled over the period surveyed, reflecting increased interaction
among scientists. About half of the authors were affiliated with three
universities in Ankara and Istanbul, indicating a heavier concentration of
social sciences research in the main metropoles of the country. (C) 1998
Academic Press.

Source item page count:  16
Publication Date:  SEP
IDS No.:  173ZN
29-char source abbrev:  INT INF LIBR REV

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