The Impact of Turkey in The Library and Information Science

This paper investigates the contribution of Turkey to the world library and information science literature. In this study we investigate the bibliometric characteristics of 219 library and information science journal articles written by authors affiliated with Turkish institutions and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between the years 1974-2013. The most preferred library and information science journals to publish articles for Turkey addressed authors are Information Processing & Management and Scientometrics. 159 of 219 articles of Turkey addressed library and information science articles were cited at least once by the publications in citation indexes. Total number of citations of Turkey addressed 159 articles was 1304. All of the contributions were written in English and one-third of them had single authorship. Turkey addressed library and information science articles have been cited by 69 different countries and in particular mostly by the United States of America, China and England. On the other hand the country self-citation was 27%.