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The inclusion of a journal and its articles in the indexes is a subject that is generally given importance by academia in the process of scholarly communication. This situation become even more significant with various implementations in some countries. Turkey is among the countries, which consider the presence of more journals in various indexes, especially the Web of Science (WoS), as an added value or even a quality indicator. It is observed from the current practices that, the quantity has become increasingly important and having publications in the journals covered by citation indexes has sometimes been accepted as a "sine qua non". In this context, this research aims to investigate the Turkey-addressed journals that are included in WoS, had been indexed for a certain period of time, but dropped from the index after a while. The data set of the study consist of Turkey-addressed journals in WoS that were indexed and dropped between 2005 and 2015. During this period, it was determined that 20 out of 80 Turkey-addressed journals that were indexed in WoS were removed from the index. These dropped 20 journals were able to remain in the citation index for an average of five years. Some of Turkey-addressed journals that were removed from WoS draw the attention with high rates of self-citations and with noteworthy differences in the number of publications from year to year. For half of the Turkey-addressed journals (10 journals) that were dropped from WoS, the ratio of Turkey-addressed publications to total publications is above 90%. This finding reveal the localness of authors in the mentioned journals. If Turkey-addressed journals want to be a part of or permanent in citation indexes, bring the quality of the content to the forefront and target the transition from locality to internationality, it is considered that they will be able to contribute to scientific progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of scientific studies is measured and examined quantitatively and qualitatively by bibliometric methods. By means of research evaluation studies, comparisons are made in between countries, institutions or individuals indicate scientific development, and consequently all these efforts help the formation of scientific publication policies of countries and institutions. This study analyzes the journal self-citation concept and its impact on academic publishing. It also examines bibliometric features of the Energy Education Science and Technology that has been indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded since 2008. In conclusion, it is found that 94% of the Energy Education Science and Technology citations are journal self-citation. Self-citation numbers that affect the increase of EEST's impact factor lead to serious abnormities and cause unethical consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2001, institutional open repositories are known as the most important tool of the self archiving, which is also known as green road. There are 26 institutional repositories, which are all compatible to international standards. All the institutional open repositories of Turkey mentioned before are listed in international open archive directories. In this study institutional open repository of Dokuz Eylül University is examined and institutional open repositories of Turkey are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, WoS and Scopus databases are being compared in terms of their content, subject headings and their regional comprehension. Also, the research are supported through an analysis of studies of the Social, Art and Humanities subjects which are published in the WoS and Scopus databases with Turkish address between 2000 - 2009 years. In the past decade, indexed studies, the incensement in the number of publishing, the subject headings which have presented the most increase were investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]