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Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Ottoman and Turkish Studies is a research topic within History. Science Explorer counts 8k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the historical perspectives on public health, medicine, and disease control, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire and its territories. It covers topics such as epidemics, healthcare policies, pandemics, quarantine practices, and the social impact of diseases. The papers provide insights into the development of public health systems and their influence on global health.

  • Epidemics
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Healthcare
  • Disease Control
  • Pandemics
  • Quarantine
  • Medical History
  • Public Policy
  • Social Impact
  • Global Health
Research works
8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
779
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+42%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
90% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Which countries lead Ottoman and Turkish Studies research?

By volume, Türkiye and the United States publish the most (3.2k and 102 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 3.2k works
  2. 2 United States 102 works
  3. 3 ?? 64 works
  4. 4 Russia 36 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 34 works
  6. 6 Azerbaijan 32 works
  7. 7 India 30 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 19 works
  9. 9 Iraq 17 works
  10. 10 Iran 15 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: 90.2%United States: 2.9%??: 1.8%Russia: 1.0%6 others listed: 4.1%90%largest
Türkiye3,221 · 90.2%United States102 · 2.9%??64 · 1.8%Russia36 · 1.0%6 others listed147 · 4.1%

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

Which institutions lead Ottoman and Turkish Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi publishes the most Ottoman and Turkish Studies research, followed by Istanbul University and Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 86 works
  2. 2 Istanbul UniversityTürkiye 73 works
  3. 3 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 70 works
  4. 4 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 68 works
  5. 5 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 58 works
  6. 6 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 53 works
  7. 7 Van Yüzüncü Yıl ÜniversitesiTürkiye 53 works
  8. 8 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 52 works
  9. 9 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 51 works
  10. 10 Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 46 works

What are the most cited papers in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?

The most cited paper in Ottoman and Turkish Studies is "Life story of Dr. Hulusi BehÇet" (Türkân Saylan, 1997), with 428 citations. Next come "The early impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global and Turkish economy" (314) and "Early Modern Ottoman Coffeehouse Culture and the Formation of the Consumer Subject" (272).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Life story of Dr. Hulusi BehÇet Türkân Saylan · Yonsei Medical Journal Open access 1997 428
2 The early impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global and Turkish economy Ömer Açıkgöz, Aslı Günay · TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES Open access 14 Apr 2020 314
3 Early Modern Ottoman Coffeehouse Culture and the Formation of the Consumer Subject Emınegül Karababa, Gülız Ger · Journal of Consumer Research Open access 31 Aug 2010 272
4 Traditional medicine in Turkey VII. Folk medicine in middle and west Black Sea regions Tetsuro Fujita, Ekrem Sezik, Mamoru Tabata et al. · Economic Botany Oct 1995 236
5 Traditional medicine in Turkey VIII. Folk medicine in east anatolia; Erzurum, Erzíncan, Ağri, Kars, Iğdir provinces Ekrem Sezik, Erdem Yeşilada, Mamoru Tabata et al. · Economic Botany Jul 1997 230
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ottoman and Turkish Studies research done?

The largest centres of Ottoman and Turkish Studies research in 2022-now 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 Mardin, Çankırı and Bitlis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 500 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 474 works
  3. 3 KonyaTürkiye 101 works
  4. 4 IzmirTürkiye 100 works
  5. 5 EskişehirTürkiye 65 works
  6. 6 SamsunTürkiye 56 works
  7. 7 ErzurumTürkiye 56 works
  8. 8 ÇanakkaleTürkiye 53 works
  9. 9 VanTürkiye 53 works
  10. 10 AdapazarıTürkiye 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MardinTR · 36.9 works119×
  2. ÇankırıTR · 35.5 works108×
  3. BitlisTR · 23.3 works104×
  4. AğrıTR · 20.8 works100×
  5. BilecikTR · 30.4 works86×
  6. NevşehirTR · 23.4 works77×
  7. EdirneTR · 33.4 works72×
  8. KırşehirTR · 28.5 works71×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ottoman and Turkish Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ottoman and Turkish Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harran University, Kütahya Dumlupınar Üniversitesi and Selçuk University score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 16.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Istanbul Medipol Uni…Harran UniversityKütahya Dumlupınar Ü…Selçuk University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harran UniversityTürkiye 73.421.7%75.4×36 +108.6%
2Kütahya Dumlupınar ÜniversitesiTürkiye 66.920.1%69.0×26 +98.6%
3Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 66.016.1%53.0×52 +41.3%
4Istanbul Medipol UniversityTürkiye 64.022.5%19.7×9 +72.6%
5Ahi Evran UniversityTürkiye 62.318.4%82.2×28 +96.1%
6Marmara UniversityTürkiye 60.48.4%61.6×68 +48.9%
7Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 59.69.2%167.6×86 +3.7%
8Giresun UniversityTürkiye 59.624.2%43.0×17 -0.9%
9Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 59.215.0%49.5×37 +54.6%
10Dokuz Eylül UniversityTürkiye 59.111.5%42.8×40 +55.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Ottoman and Turkish Studies, country by country

Is Ottoman and Turkish Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Ottoman and Turkish Studies.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ottoman and Turkish Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Ottoman and Turkish Studies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ottoman and Turkish Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Ottoman and Turkish Studies9.8% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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