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Gender Studies and Social Issues

Gender Studies and Social Issues is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 4k research works in it since 1950. 9.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of gender roles, urban design, and social perception in Turkey. It covers topics such as public toilets, workplace discrimination, economic inequality, family dynamics, and community health, shedding light on the impact of gender on urban environments and societal attitudes.

  • Gender Roles
  • Public Toilets
  • Urban Design
  • Women's Health
  • Social Perception
  • Workplace Discrimination
  • Economic Inequality
  • Family Dynamics
  • Educational Attitudes
  • Community Health
Research works
4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
362
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+157%
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Which countries lead Gender Studies and Social Issues research?

By volume, Türkiye and ?? publish the most (1.4k and 42 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Türkiye 1.4k works
  2. 2 ?? 42 works
  3. 3 United States 30 works
  4. 4 Kazakhstan 20 works
  5. 5 India 16 works
  6. 6 Iran 12 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 10 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 8 works
  9. 9 China 7 works
  10. 10 Cyprus 6 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Türkiye: 90.4%??: 2.7%United States: 1.9%Kazakhstan: 1.3%6 others listed: 3.7%90%largest
Türkiye1,417 · 90.4%??42 · 2.7%United States30 · 1.9%Kazakhstan20 · 1.3%6 others listed58 · 3.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Gender Studies and Social Issues research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Selçuk University publishes the most Gender Studies and Social Issues research, followed by Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi and Hacettepe University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 39 works
  2. 2 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 30 works
  3. 3 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 26 works
  4. 4 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 26 works
  5. 5 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 24 works
  6. 6 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 23 works
  7. 7 Karadeniz Technical UniversityTürkiye 22 works
  8. 8 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 20 works
  9. 9 Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 20 works
  10. 10 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 19 works

Where is Gender Studies and Social Issues research done?

The largest centres of Gender Studies and Social Issues research in 2022–2025 are Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye), Konya (Türkiye) and Izmir (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Trabzon.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Istanbul Türkiye 232 works
  2. 2 Ankara Türkiye 179 works
  3. 3 Konya Türkiye 62 works
  4. 4 Izmir Türkiye 62 works
  5. 5 Eskişehir Türkiye 34 works
  6. 6 Samsun Türkiye 26 works
  7. 7 Trabzon Türkiye 25 works
  8. 8 Çanakkale Türkiye 24 works
  9. 9 Sivas Türkiye 23 works
  10. 10 Erzurum Türkiye 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TrabzonTR · 25.1 works73×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gender Studies and Social Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gender Studies and Social Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Selçuk University, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi and Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 11.93%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Selçuk University: 38, 13.0%Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi: 24, 14.2%Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi: 30, 11.0%Yozgat Bozok Üniversitesi: 14, 17.1%Hacettepe University: 26, 9.4%Suleyman Demirel University: 18, 7.2%Marmara University: 19, 12.2%Kırıkkale University: 12, 21.4%Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi: 23, 9.3%Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi: 26, 4.5%Yozgat Bozok Ünivers…Çanakkale Onsekiz Ma…Selçuk UniversityAnkara Sosyal Biliml…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 52.513.0%78.2×38 +180.3%
2 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 50.214.2%61.4×24 +394.2%
3 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 47.111.0%114.7×30 +341.8%
4 Yozgat Bozok ÜniversitesiTürkiye 46.417.1%61.2×14 +400.0%
5 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 44.79.4%33.2×26 +498.2%
6 Suleyman Demirel UniversityKazakhstan 44.67.2%85.3×18 +412.1%
7 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 44.312.2%33.5×19 +442.3%
8 Kırıkkale UniversityTürkiye 42.221.4%58.6×12 —
9 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 42.19.3%58.8×23 +569.5%
10 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 41.24.5%29.4×26 +747.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Gender Studies and Social Issues research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 157% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gender Studies and Social Issues.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.