Abstract
This study investigates the scientific outputs made by scholars residing in Muslim countries in the field of Women’s Studies as represented in the Web of Knowledge between 1900 and 2016. Focusing on countries whose population was at least 50% Muslim, we found 741 publications in this field. However, scholars in 16 out of 49 (32.65%) Muslim countries did not publish any works in Women’s Studies. Although the first work appeared in 1977, an exponential increase in the number of such publications was seen from 2008 on. Most of the articles were written by scholars in Turkey (188, 30.9%), followed by those in Malaysia (59, 9.7%), Nigeria (51, 8.4%), Lebanon (43, 7.07%), Bangladesh (42, 6.91%), and Iran (40, 6.58%) in the fields of Public, Environment & Occupation Health (37.1%), General Internal Medicine (17%), Obstetrics Gynecology (17%), and Psychology (9.4%). The most frequently used words in the titles and abstracts and as keywords were women, women’s, Turkey, gender, violence, and health. We predict that the number of such publications will continue increasing in the coming years.
Highlights
The status of women has always been a topic of heated discussions throughout the world in general and in the Muslim world in particular
The present study aims to contribute to this knowledge by focusing on scientific works in Women’s Studies in the Muslim world as represented in the Web of Knowledge and analyzing them from a bibliometric perspective
Our analysis revealed that the research focus of publications in Women’s Studies differs across the Muslim countries; some countries focus on health issues more than psychological, historical, and economic issues in relation to Women’s Studies
Summary
The status of women has always been a topic of heated discussions throughout the world in general and in the Muslim world in particular. For this reason, one of the United Nations’ (UN). The Muslim world offers a striking example of gender (in)equality. Women have gained some status in Muslim societies, their status varies among these societies. In Turkey women achieved the right to vote in local elections as early as 1930 and gained full universal suffrage in 1934. In Saudi Arabia it was not until 2015 that women gained the right to vote, and in local elections only. We focused on the scientific outputs published in journals by scholars residing in Muslim countries in the field of
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