CITATION STATUS OF TURKISH PHYSICS PUBLICATIONS IN FOREIGN-JOURNALS -A GLOBAL ANALYSIS

We have studied the citation rates and characteristics of 572 Turkish physics publications that appeared in the source journals listed in th e Science Citation Index (SCI) for the period 1982-1990 to drive the f ollowing results: The papers appeared in a set of 94 journals, and 68% of the total output went to 21 of these; half of which are journals o f high impact. On the average, papers from Turkey that appeared in the American and European journals are cited at rates higher than the cor responding ''average'' papers. There has been a substantial shift of T urkish papers from European journals to American journals over the las t few years. These changes are an example of the process by which scie nce in a less developed country becomes integrated into the word scien tific community.