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3 Findings and Di iscussion

3.1 Publications and th heir Distribution by Year

Fig. 1 shows the graph of a
each discipline.

nnual percent of distribution of publications for Turkey y for

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Engineering S Sciences Arts & Humanities Social Sciences

Fig. 1. Pub blication count for each discipline for Turkey

Publication counts hav
discipline approximately do
situation can be explained
Education in 1981 [5] and
The number of Turkish jou
introduction of the regional

ve increased since 1980s. Publication counts on e
oubled during each 4-year-period after the year 2000. T
by two factors: the founding of The Council of Hig
d the regional development policy of citation indexes
urnals in Web of Science has grown considerably with
l development policy.

each
This
gher
[6].
the

3.2 Document Types

Document types provide t
However, research conduc
most produced documents
content of the citation
Unsurprisingly, the mostly
is articles at 83.7% for scie
79.4% for arts and humanit

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ted by using citation databases generally reveals that
are articles. The reason for this kind of findings is
databases which generally include mainly journ
produced document type for Turkish scientific discipli
nce; 89.7% for engineering; 78.1% for social sciences,
ties. Letters, notes and reviews are also produced for all

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