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Turkish Literature and Culture

Turkish Literature and Culture is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 focuses on the literature, poetry, and cultural heritage of the Ottoman Empire, particularly highlighting the significance of Divan poetry, Sufism, and classical Turkish literature. It also delves into the historical and artistic aspects of the Ottoman period, shedding light on Turkish history and Islamic art.

  • Divan Poetry
  • Turkish Literature
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Sufism
  • Turkish History
  • Classical Turkish Poetry
  • Ottoman Culture
  • Islamic Art
  • Turkish Manuscripts
  • Ottoman Period
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+53%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
84% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Turkish Literature and Culture

Which countries lead Turkish Literature and Culture research?

By volume, Türkiye and Azerbaijan publish the most (4.9k and 197 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 4.9k works
  2. 2 Azerbaijan 197 works
  3. 3 United States 174 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 146 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 109 works
  6. 6 ?? 89 works
  7. 7 Iraq 86 works
  8. 8 Russia 71 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 35 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 32 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: 84.0%Azerbaijan: 3.4%United States: 3.0%Uzbekistan: 2.5%6 others listed: 7.2%84%largest
Türkiye4,923 · 84.0%Azerbaijan197 · 3.4%United States174 · 3.0%Uzbekistan146 · 2.5%6 others listed421 · 7.2%

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

Which institutions lead Turkish Literature and Culture research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi publishes the most Turkish Literature and Culture research, followed by Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 157 works
  2. 2 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 129 works
  3. 3 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 115 works
  4. 4 Istanbul UniversityTürkiye 91 works
  5. 5 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 89 works
  6. 6 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 87 works
  7. 7 Mardin Artuklu UniversityTürkiye 82 works
  8. 8 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 80 works
  9. 9 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 79 works
  10. 10 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 76 works

Who are the leading researchers in Turkish Literature and Culture?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Turkish Literature and Culture include H. Duran Yıldız.

  1. 1 H. Duran Yıldız France 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 Turkish Literature and Culture?

The most cited paper in Turkish Literature and Culture is "Metaforlar: Hayat, Anlam ve Dil" (Kamil PARIN, 2017), with 141 citations. Next come "DYNASTIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE IL-KHĀNS" (132) and "Vowel harmony and gerundive compounds in Turkish" (107).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Metaforlar: Hayat, Anlam ve Dil Kamil PARIN · SÖYLEM Filoloji Dergisi Open access 19 Jun 2017 141
2 DYNASTIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE IL-KHĀNS J. A. Boyle · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 1968 132
3 Vowel harmony and gerundive compounds in Turkish Aino Evelin Kardestuncer · Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 1983 107
4 Traditional Medicine in Turkey II. Folk Medicine in Kastamonu Ekrem Sezik, M. Zor, Akgül Yeşilada · Pharmaceutical Biology 1992 80
5 Hayvanlara ve Bitkilere Tapmak John Ferguson MCLENNAN · Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi Open access 3 Mar 2023 61
All 104 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Turkish Literature and Culture research done?

The largest centres of Turkish Literature and Culture research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Konya (Türkiye) and Baku (Azerbaijan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mardin, Ardahan and Nevşehir.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 803 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 610 works
  3. 3 KonyaTürkiye 170 works
  4. 4 BakuAzerbaijan 152 works
  5. 5 IzmirTürkiye 129 works
  6. 6 ErzurumTürkiye 117 works
  7. 7 EskişehirTürkiye 102 works
  8. 8 SivasTürkiye 82 works
  9. 9 MardinTürkiye 82 works
  10. 10 SamsunTürkiye 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MardinTR · 81.9 works157×
  2. ArdahanTR · 35.3 works149×
  3. NevşehirTR · 64.6 works126×
  4. TurkestanKZ · 24.6 works107×
  5. BatmanTR · 41.1 works88×
  6. BingölTR · 48.2 works83×
  7. BitlisTR · 30.6 works81×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Turkish Literature and Culture than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Turkish Literature and Culture?

Among universities, judged by research, Selçuk University, Hacettepe University and Mardin Artuklu 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%mean 14.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Selçuk UniversityHacettepe UniversityMardin Artuklu Unive…Ankara Hacı Bayram V…
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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
1Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 75.416.9%53.8×89 +71.0%
2Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 73.514.9%27.4×73 +38.9%
3Mardin Artuklu UniversityTürkiye 72.014.4%178.9×82 +140.0%
4Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 71.311.8%172.1×129 +98.9%
5Osmaniye Korkut Ata UniversityTürkiye 71.017.0%80.3×29 +68.5%
6Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 70.610.0%181.8×157 +10.2%
7Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa ÜniversitesiTürkiye 70.516.9%64.3×59 +152.5%
8Suleyman Demirel UniversityKazakhstan 70.211.0%57.0×42 +80.1%
9Batman UniversityTürkiye 70.117.7%100.6×41 +109.8%
10Kastamonu UniversityTürkiye 69.912.7%72.4×57 +69.8%

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 Turkish Literature and Culture, country by country

Is Turkish Literature and Culture research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 53% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Turkish Literature and Culture.

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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 Turkish Literature and Culture as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Turkish Literature and Culture0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Turkish Literature and Culture 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%Turkish Literature and Culture10.0% 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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