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Turkish Urban and Social Issues

Turkish Urban and Social Issues is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 4.7k research works in it since 1951. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to urban studies, social policy analysis, and demographic transition. It includes research on urbanization, social services, home care, local governance, sustainability, community development, migration, public policy, and city planning.

  • Urbanization
  • Social Services
  • Demographic Transition
  • Home Care
  • Local Governance
  • Sustainability
  • Community Development
  • Migration
  • Public Policy
  • City Planning
Research works
4.7k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
459
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+54%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
93% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Turkish Urban and Social Issues

Which countries lead Turkish Urban and Social Issues research?

By volume, Türkiye and ?? publish the most (2.1k and 49 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 2.1k works
  2. 2 ?? 49 works
  3. 3 United States 37 works
  4. 4 Kazakhstan 24 works
  5. 5 Azerbaijan 17 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 13 works
  7. 7 Iraq 12 works
  8. 8 India 8 works
  9. 9 France 5 works
  10. 10 Germany 5 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: 92.5%??: 2.2%United States: 1.6%Kazakhstan: 1.0%6 others listed: 2.6%93%largest
Türkiye2,126 · 92.5%??49 · 2.2%United States37 · 1.6%Kazakhstan24 · 1.0%6 others listed60 · 2.6%

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

Which institutions lead Turkish Urban and Social Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi publishes the most Turkish Urban and Social Issues research, followed by Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi and Ankara University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 55 works
  2. 2 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 47 works
  3. 3 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 40 works
  4. 4 Dokuz Eylül UniversityTürkiye 35 works
  5. 5 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 34 works
  6. 6 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 34 works
  7. 7 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 34 works
  8. 8 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 33 works
  9. 9 Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 31 works
  10. 10 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Turkish Urban and Social Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Turkish Urban and Social Issues include Burcu Küçük Biçer, Sultan Eser and İsmail Çakmak.

  1. 1 Burcu Küçük Biçer Türkiye 153k citations
  2. 2 Sultan Eser Türkiye 40k citations
  3. 3 İsmail Çakmak Türkiye 39k citations
  4. 4 Altan Onat Türkiye 35k 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 Urban and Social Issues?

The most cited paper in Turkish Urban and Social Issues is "The distribution of urban public services: the case of parks and recreational services in Ankara" (Feyzan Erkip, 1997), with 130 citations. Next come "User surveys of Ankara’s urban parks" (121) and "Integrating multicriteria decision-making analysis for a GIS-based settlement area in the district of Atakum, Samsun, Turkey" (104).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The distribution of urban public services: the case of parks and recreational services in Ankara Feyzan Erkip · Cities Open access Dec 1997 130
2 User surveys of Ankara’s urban parks Dicle Oğuz · Landscape and Urban Planning Dec 2000 121
3 Integrating multicriteria decision-making analysis for a GIS-based settlement area in the district of Atakum, Samsun, Turkey Cem Kılıçoğlu, Mehmet Çağrı Çetin, Burak Arıcak et al. · Theoretical and Applied Climatology 19 Oct 2020 104
4 THE ROMAN MOB P. A. Brunt · Past & Present 1966 103
5 Violence against women: prevalence and risk factors in Turkish sample Selma Şen, Nurşen Bolsoy · BMC Women s Health Open access 3 Nov 2017 81
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Turkish Urban and Social Issues research done?

The largest centres of Turkish Urban and Social Issues research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye), Izmir (Türkiye) and Konya (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Çankırı and Çanakkale.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 304 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 280 works
  3. 3 IzmirTürkiye 75 works
  4. 4 KonyaTürkiye 63 works
  5. 5 ÇanakkaleTürkiye 47 works
  6. 6 EskişehirTürkiye 41 works
  7. 7 SamsunTürkiye 39 works
  8. 8 ErzurumTürkiye 38 works
  9. 9 TrabzonTürkiye 32 works
  10. 10 BursaTürkiye 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ÇankırıTR · 22.1 works107×
  2. ÇanakkaleTR · 46.9 works85×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Turkish Urban and Social Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Mustafa Kemal University and Tarsus University 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%20%40%mean 16.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tarsus UniversityMustafa Kemal Univer…Sağlık Bilimleri Üni…Ankara Sosyal Biliml…
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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.

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
1Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 68.114.9%30.5×33 +38.3%
2Mustafa Kemal UniversityTürkiye 65.126.1%85.5×18 +114.8%
3Tarsus UniversityTürkiye 63.731.6%75.9×8 +318.0%
4Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 62.28.6%170.1×54 +28.3%
5Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 61.116.0%57.5×31 +103.5%
6Kırıkkale UniversityTürkiye 60.120.0%86.0×21 +89.4%
7Ankara UniversityTürkiye 58.511.7%46.2×40 -7.1%
8Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 57.511.8%48.3×34 +15.4%
9Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 56.911.7%55.0×34 +75.9%
10Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 56.913.9%98.9×27 +179.5%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Urban and Social Issues, country by country

Is Turkish Urban and Social Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Turkish Urban 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Turkish Urban and Social Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0087% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Turkish Urban and Social Issues0.0095% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Turkish Urban and Social Issues 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 Urban and Social Issues9.9% 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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