BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THIRD SECTOR SOCIAL ECONOMIC REVIEW

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to examine the Third Sector Social Economy Review from a bibliometric perspective and to uncover the transformation of the journal from the past to the present. A total of 870 articles that were published in the period from 2011, when the journal started to be published as the Third Sector Social Economy Review, until the end of 2022, were analyzed for this purpose. In this context, regarding the articles in the study, the distribution of the articles by years, research methods used, publication language of articles, keywords used, number of pages, sources used, number of citations, and self-citations were evaluated, and the authors, multiple authorship status, productivity of authors, titles, institutions they worked for, departments whether they were compatible or not with the Pareto (80/20), Price, and Lotka Law. It was concluded that there has been a significant increase in the number of articles published in the journal since 2017, and the language of the empirical study and publication of the majority of the studies was English. It was determined that the biggest contributor was made by authors with the title of Doctor Faculty Member of Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. Also, the contribution of authors from 154 different universities in the country and 4 different universities from abroad shows the result that the journal was a well-known journal at home and abroad. It is considered that the findings obtained as a result of the study will contribute to revealing the publication profile of the journal and guiding the researchers who aimed to have their studies published.