SCI ve SSCI Bağlamında Türkiye’nin Coğrafya biliminde uluslararası yayın performansının karşılaştırmalı analizi 1945-2005

Abstract

Bu makale 1945-2005 doneminde Turkiye\'de cografya\'nin uluslararasi yayin performansini atif indekslerinde (SCI ve SSCI) taranan dergilerde yapilan yayinlara gore incelemektedir. ISI tarafindan hazirlanan verilerin kullanildigi bu calismada, fiziki ve beseri cografyanin evrensel bilime katki duzeyini saptamak ve Turk cografyasinin yerini belirlemek amaciyla karsilastirmali bir analize basvurulmustur. 60 yillik arastirma doneminde cografyacilar indekse giren dergilerde toplam 83 yayin yapmislardir. Yapilan yayinlarin %89\'u Ingilizce, %90\'i Istanbul, Ankara ve Izmir\'deki universiteler ve kurumlar tarafindan yapilmistir. %93\'u fiziki cografya ozelliklede jeomorfoloji, kuaterner calismalari ve iklimle ilgili konularda yapilmistir. %34\'u cografya dergilerinde, %45\'i yabanci ortakla ozellikle de Anglo-saksonlarla ve %62\'si sadece yedi cografyaci tarafindan yapilmistir. Yapilan yayinlarin kalitesi Turkiye ortalamasinin uzerindedir. Jeomorfologlar cografya bilimine cok onemli katki yapmislardir. Uluslararasi arenada fiziki cografyayi jeologlarin, beseri cografyayi da sehir ve bolge plancilarinin cografyacilardan daha fazla temsil ettigi gorulmektedir. Turkiye benzer gelismislik duzeylerine sahip Guney Kore, Polonya, Brezilya ve Yunanistan\'a kiyasla, hem fiziki, hem de beseri cografya alaninda yayin performansi acisindan bu ulkelerin cok gerisinde kalmaktadir. Sonuc olarak, Turk cografyasinin uluslararasilasma duzeyi son derece dusuk olmakla beraber, son yillarda kismen de olsa olumlu bir surecin basladigini belirtmek gerekir. \r\n\r\n\r\nThis paper examines the performance of international publications in the field of geography in Turkey between 1945 and 2005, based on publications that appeared in journals covered by the citation indexes, SCI and SSCI. Using SCI and SSCI databases produced by ISI, this study also intends to investigate Turkish geographers’ place within the international academic cummunity, and to which degree both physical and human geography contributed to the world science. We found a total of 83 publications made by Turkish geographers in journals covered by the citation indexes in last six decade, 89% of them were written in English. Most contributions (90%) came from researchers working at universities and public research institution in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. 93% of the papers were the subject of physical geography particularly geomorphology, quaternary studies and climatology. 34% of the papers were published in geographical journals. Nearly half of the papers were joint work with foreign authors mainly Anglo-Saxon. Only seven authors published two thirds of the all papers. The quality of the papers was above Turkish average. Geomorphogist has made a great contribution to Turkish geography in terms of the publications. It seems that geologist and city-regional planners rather than geographers represent physical and human geography in today’s international arena. Comparing South Korea, Poland, Brazil, and Greece, Turkey has fewer publications in the field of both physical and human geography. Given the number of publications and research performance of Turkey, even though the degree of internationalization of Turkish geography has remained at a very low level, a new positive process has begun recently.