Evaluation of the Published Articles in Education Field: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the articles published as Turkey-addressed in SSCI and ESCI indexed journals in the Education & Educational Research (E&ER) thematic field in the Web of Science (WoS) databases in the last decade. For this purpose, the published articles as Turkey-addressed between the years 2010 and 2019 were examined with respect to the distribution of the number of articles, the number of citations and uncited articles, journals' indexes, and Turkey's ranking in international field and universities' rankings, and the distribution of the articles to the journals. In the study, it was clear that the number of articles published as Turkey-addressed in the educational field tended to increase over the years, and this increase is due to the number of articles in ESCI indexed journals. Moreover, it has been determined that Turkey is ranked 6 in the total number of articles in the educational field when compared to other countries. The top three universities that contribute are (i) Hacettepe University, (ii) Gazi University, and (iii) Middle East Technical University. In addition, the three most published journals are (i) Education & Science, (ii) Educational Sciences in Theory and Practice, and (iii) Hacettepe University Journal of Education. Based on the research data, it can be said that although the publications of our country seemed to be at a good level quantitatively in the international field, we remained in a local state on a global scale according to the journal addresses of the published articles.