This article reviews the self-citation concept that has been mentioned frequently in bibliometric studies and reveals the contribution of Turkey to the information science literature. The study examines Turkey addressed ...

Abstract No library in the world has the sufficient budget, space, and professionals to acquire all existing information sources, and to organise and serve the acquired materials. For this reason, libraries cooperate in ...

Abstract Turkish academia places a premium on citation indexes. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of related academic articles and popular scientific papers. Considering the importance ...

In this study, Hacettepe University Libraries, which provide services for various types of faculties having one of the largest book collections in Turkey, were investigated in terms of their book collection. The aim of ...

The purpose of this article is to identify the bibliometric characteristics of research librarianship literature and to visualize relationships in research librarianship by means of social network analysis. It was found ...

Libraries for Everyone is the most comprehensive project concerning municipal libraries in Turkey. The project aims to improve the quality of life among the Turkish society with a particular ...

Purpose–A major problem in today’s scholarly publishing process is the long tails for the assignment of volume and issue numbers for approved articles. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which ...

Collaboration patterns of scholars have been the subject of many studies. This paper investigates the collaboration patterns of the Turkish scholars’ publications within the citation indexes. Turkey’s contribution to the ...

In this study general information about impact assessment processes of Librar-e Turkey Planning and Pilot Project were presented. The short-term effects of the Project were also discussed by evaluating the findings of ...