Sosyal Bilimlerde Türkiye’nin Dünyadaki Yeri

This paper reviews the contributions (articles, notes, book reviews, etc.) of Turkish social scientists to the world’s social sciences literature. Such contributions were identified through the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) by checking the authors’ affiliation addresses to see if they included the word “Turkey”. Altogether a total of 887 contributions were identified from 1985-1996. The number of contributions in 1996 is 166, which constitutes a mere 0,14% of the overall contributions in the world. The three fourth of the contributions are of full-text articles. An overwhelming majority of the contributions (95%) are written in English. Most contributions (93%) came from researchers at universities. Researchers affiliated with the Middle East Technical, Bosporus and Bilkent Universities contributed to more than half (53%) of all social science publications