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This study focuses on Turkish scholars’ information use. Using citation analysis, it investigates a total of 197,687 publications in our main scientific disciplines (pure sciences, engineering, social sciences and arts & humanities) extracted from Web of Science (1928-2009). Authors (at least one of them) of these publications were all affiliated with Turkish institutions. Differences between these disciplines and between their sub-disciplines in terms of average author number, multiple authorship, half-life, publication types, journals characteristics were determined. Findings of this study can be helpful for national-level policy making on scientific productivity that will help Turkish scholarship to reach international level.
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Taşkın, Z., Doğan, G. (2014). Evaluation of Scientific Disciplines in Turkey: A Citation Analysis Study. In: Gathegi, J.N., Tonta, Y., Kurbanoğlu, S., Al, U., Taşkın, Z. (eds) Challenges of Information Management Beyond the Cloud. IMCW 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 423. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44412-2_14
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