The increase in the rate of publications originating from Turkey

The scientific publications of 231 chemistry professors employed at Turkish Universities are studied for a period of 10 years. The quantitative as wel l as the qualitative aspects of the trends in the scientific information ou tput of this group are analyzed in order to evaluate the underlying facts o f the recent increase in the number of publications coming from Turkey. The selected group is a fairly good representative of the Turkish scientific c ommunity and our observations could be generalized to describe the developm ent of basic sciences in Turkey. We conclude that even though there exists a serious increase in the scientific output from Turkey, a rather small por tion of the studied group is responsible both for high number of publicatio ns and for higher quality.