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Turkey's Politics and Society

Turkey's Politics and Society is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the multifaceted transformation of political, social, and economic landscapes in Turkey, with a focus on the rise of the AKP, increasing authoritarianism, Islam's role in public life, Kurdish question, neoliberal policies, gender politics, nationalism, European integration, and civil society dynamics.

  • AKP
  • authoritarianism
  • Islam
  • neoliberalism
  • Kurdish question
  • democratization
  • gender politics
  • nationalism
  • Europeanization
  • civil society
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
62% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Turkey's Politics and Society

Which countries lead Turkey's Politics and Society research?

By volume, Türkiye and the United States publish the most (2.3k and 466 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 2.3k works
  2. 2 United States 466 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 242 works
  4. 4 Germany 166 works
  5. 5 Iraq 127 works
  6. 6 France 107 works
  7. 7 Australia 71 works
  8. 8 Iran 63 works
  9. 9 Russia 62 works
  10. 10 Canada 58 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: 62.5%United States: 12.8%United Kingdom: 6.7%Germany: 4.6%6 others listed: 13.5%62%largest
Türkiye2,270 · 62.5%United States466 · 12.8%United Kingdom242 · 6.7%Germany166 · 4.6%6 others listed490 · 13.5%

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

Which institutions lead Turkey's Politics and Society research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ankara University publishes the most Turkey's Politics and Society research, followed by Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and Marmara University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 62 works
  2. 2 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 58 works
  3. 3 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 57 works
  4. 4 Istanbul UniversityTürkiye 55 works
  5. 5 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 54 works
  6. 6 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 40 works
  7. 7 Sakarya UniversityTürkiye 39 works
  8. 8 Middle East Technical UniversityTürkiye 39 works
  9. 9 Koç UniversityTürkiye 36 works
  10. 10 Salahaddin University-ErbilIraq 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Turkey's Politics and Society?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Turkey's Politics and Society include Daron Acemoğlu and Amartya Kumar Sen.

  1. 1 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  2. 2 Amartya Kumar Sen United States 117k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Turkey's Politics and Society?

The most cited paper in Turkey's Politics and Society is "Elections Under Authoritarianism" (Jennifer Gandhi, Ellen Lust, 2009), with 1,142 citations. Next come "Credible Power-Sharing and the Longevity of Authoritarian Rule" (1,136) and "Rising competitive authoritarianism in Turkey" (769).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Elections Under Authoritarianism Jennifer Gandhi, Ellen Lust · Annual Review of Political Science Review 11 May 2009 1,142
2 Credible Power-Sharing and the Longevity of Authoritarian Rule Beatriz Magaloni · Comparative Political Studies 31 Jan 2008 1,136
3 Rising competitive authoritarianism in Turkey Berk Esen, Şebnem Gümüşçü · Third World Quarterly Open access 19 Feb 2016 769
4 The Politics of Migrants’ Transnational Political Practices Eva Østergaard‐Nielsen · International Migration Review Sep 2003 603
5 Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality Richard M. Rorty · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 13 Mar 1998 600
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Where is Turkey's Politics and Society research done?

The largest centres of Turkey's Politics and Society research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye), Izmir (Türkiye) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 590 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 419 works
  3. 3 IzmirTürkiye 85 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 76 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 67 works
  6. 6 KonyaTürkiye 63 works
  7. 7 ErbilIraq 57 works
  8. 8 YerevanArmenia 49 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 44 works
  10. 10 BerlinGermany 42 works
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Where is the best place to study Turkey's Politics and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, Koç University, Bilkent University and Middle East Technical 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%20%40%mean 22.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Koç UniversityÖzyeğin UniversityMiddle East Technica…Bilkent 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
1Koç UniversityTürkiye 81.432.4%61.0×36 -5.5%
2Bilkent UniversityTürkiye 73.221.1%61.6×27 +34.7%
3Middle East Technical UniversityTürkiye 72.721.4%53.8×39 +47.9%
4Özyeğin UniversityTürkiye 69.727.9%104.2×19 +41.4%
5Sabancı ÜniversitesiTürkiye 68.729.8%71.6×18 -2.5%
6University of AmsterdamNetherlands 63.622.6%4.7×11 +22.5%
7Kadir Has UniversityTürkiye 62.018.6%143.1×20 +19.0%
8Boğaziçi UniversityTürkiye 61.68.6%84.6×31 +28.0%
9Ankara UniversityTürkiye 61.59.6%35.7×62 +12.5%
10University of OsloNorway 61.131.1%3.2×8 +44.2%

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 Turkey's Politics and Society, country by country

Is Turkey's Politics and Society research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Turkey's Politics and Society.

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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 Turkey's Politics and Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Turkey's Politics and Society0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Turkey's Politics and Society 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%Turkey's Politics and Society10.2% in 2025200020102020

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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