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The subject of "women's political participation" is discussed and researched in the axis of theoretical and practical applications. Women's participation in politics, their absence in politics, and political participation channels and tools find different reflections based on patriarchal systems. This study aims to map the publications on women's political participation in the context of various criteria by using the bibliometric analysis method of the studies selected from the Web of Science database. In the WoS database, which is an effective database in the world, a total of 254 studies published because of the search made on April 12, 2023, by selecting the keywords "women's political participation" were determined. Only the language of studies was restricted among these studies, and 220 studies were included in the analysis. Identified studies were analyzed using the WoS database and VOSviewier software. The study's findings show that studies on women's political participation have decreased since 2020 compared to previous years. In addition, the study determined that Turkey is in the lower ranks among the countries that publish on the relevant subject, as another essential finding that needs to be questioned. This study will provide researchers, politicians, and non-governmental organizations with critical data to identify the deficiencies and riches by knowing all the details, including the theoretical and practical applications of women's political participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, digitalization emerges as a phenomenon that penetrates every aspect of human life. This phenomenon, which also shows itself in international politics, is expressed in the literature with concepts such as digitalization of diplomacy, digital diplomacy, e-diplomacy, and cyber diplomacy. The increasing number of studies in the field of digital diplomacy reveals the necessity of bibliometric analysis in order to bring a different perspective to new studies in this field. In this study, bibliometric analysis was carried out in order to examine the studies in the field of digital diplomacy and to shed light on future studies. Network mapping was performed using VOS viewer software with the data obtained from Web of Science and Scopus databases. As a result of the analyzes carried out, it was determined that the most effective country in the field was the USA, and the most effective institution was Oxford University, while Ilan Manor was the author whose studies were most frequently referenced. It is also determined that the most effective subject associated with digital diplomacy is public diplomacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was conducted in order to determine how well the organizational behavior issues adapt to the process in the transformation that has been experienced with industry 4.0. In this context, the levels considering industry 4.0 and organizational behavior issues together in academic studies were evaluated. Regarding scope of the research, the studies in which industry 4.0 and organizational behavior issues were examined together were taken from the Web of Science database. The bibliometric analysis of the data that was obtained was performed through employing the WOSviewer 1.6.18 program. As of 02 May 2023, 21422 studies related to industry 4.0 have been identified in the Web of Science database. Only 546 (2.5%) of these studies were identified as studies examining industry 4.0 and organizational behavior issues together in the field of management. In the literature, it has been concluded that industry 4.0 is mostly studied with technical issues; organizational behavior issues, in other words, the human aspect, are in the background, and there is no parallelism between the speed of development of industry 4.0 and that of the studies regarding organizational behavior issues. Within the scope of the study, recommendations were made for future studies that industry 4.0 and organizational behavior issues should be studied together more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific knowledge has become a fundamental and integral part of individuals' daily lives. Science news in conventional and digital media is an important source of information for individuals. In this sense, the media has a central role as a guide in conveying scientific developments. Science journalists make complex topics and scientific research understandable for audiences at different levels. In this sense, developments in the field of science are shared through the media to the general public. The public has a keen interest in new treatments and technological developments, especially in medical issues. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the leading trends in science journalism based on specific bibliometric indicators. For this purpose, articles related to science journalism scanned in the Web of Science database are analyzed. The study uses the VOSviewer program for bibliometric analysis. As a result, it is determined that 190 articles related to science journalism in the field of communication are scanned in the Web of Science database. It is seen that 53 of these articles were published by researchers in the United States of America. It is noteworthy that there is no study from Turkey among these articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Morbidity and mortality associated with antimicrobial resistance is a global public health problem. Vancomycinresistant Enterococcus faecium, which is frequently seen in healthcare-associated infections, is a Gram-positive cocci that the he World Health Organization has given high priority on its list of priority pathogens with antimicrobial resistance. Recently, the rate of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolation in invasive infections has been reported as 15.8% in Turkey. The main mechanism of resistance to vancomycin is alteration of the D-alanyl-D-alanine terminal molecule in the target region, and decreased affinity for the antibiotic. The van gene responsible for vancomycin resistance is either chromosomally encoded or acquired by mobile genetic elements such as plasmid and transposon. The main mechanism of its spread is that mobile genetic elements can be transferred within the same species or between different bacteria like Staphylococcus aereus. In this review, data, extracted by PubMed and Web of Science Databases searching with the terms "Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium", "Vancomycin resistance mechanisms", "vancomycin resistance in Gram-positive cocci" is summarized and briefly discussed with recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study examines the concepts of performance, performance measurement and evaluation, which are important phenomenon for every business. First, a literature review is conducted using the Web of Science database. Then, the concepts of performance, performance measurement and evaluation are examined theoretically; and performance evaluation approaches are discussed. As a result of the literature review, 360-degree performance evaluation system, which is one of the modern methods that has not found many places in the business administration literature, is examined in detail, and a general framework is tried to be formed on the subject. Consequently, it is determined that 360-degree performance evaluation system cannot provide a single handed and direct solution to performance problems. However, when the system is carefully prepared and applied correctly, it moves away from the tendency of firms to see the individual as a mechanical production material, which is caused by classical performance evaluation methods, and leads them to the tendency to see them as "human". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, the two terms - agility and leanness are frequently encountered in the literature due to their effects on industrial sectors. They are the two basic paradigms of the businesses that help them to build strategies and to gain a competitive advantage. This study aimed to explore the emerging research topics and the main research trends within agile and lean supply chain (SC) paradigms in recent years and to explore the interrelationships between them. A word co-occurrence analysis technique was adopted in this study. A data set of 526 publications, obtained from the Web of Science database, had been analyzed. The findings show that many topics such as SC strategy, green SC, and SC agility are present since 2018. Besides, the topics such as SC design, collaboration, cold SC, lean and agile SC, and SC risk management were emerging topics. The most common research areas revealed are; environmental risks in the agile SC, combining lean SC with agile SC, leagile SC strategies, SC risk management, and agility in SC integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The articles accessed from Web of Science database were subjected to bibliometric analysis by science mapping technique to examine the international internal audit research studies. The first article was published in 1975; number of articles has increased since 2002. Alzeban A., Barac K., Wood D.A. and Sarens G. are the authors working most intensively on this subject, while, Wood D.A. is the author with the most collaborations. United States holds the highest number of articles, number of citations, and strong links to other country-based publications. However, it is observed that number of publications and impact of the publications are not in the same direction. In recent years, topics including quality, effectiveness, standards, assurance, data analysis, and financial reporting quality have been studied with respect to internal audit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In parallel with the increase in competition in international trade, the importance of the logistics sector, which plays an important role in the continuity of our commercial life, is increasing gradually, so the number of studies on logistics performance and trade is increasing day by day. The study aims to systematically examine the studies based on the relationship between logistics performance and international trade, evaluate the situation, and make suggestions to researchers who will work on the subject in the future. In the study, 33 articles that were reached as a result of scanning the Web of Science and Scopus databases were systematically examined in terms of various criteria. According to the findings obtained; In the studies, it was determined that mostly the effect of logistics performance on trade was discussed and this effect was generally measured with the gravity model, and the logistics performance index was frequently used in logistics performance measurement. In addition, it is noteworthy that the number of product and sector based studies are quite limited. Within the scope of the findings obtained in the study, suggestions for future studies are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Retro and nostalgia marketing is one of the ways to interact and communicate with consumers in the field of marketing. This study aims to evaluate retro and nostalgia marketing studies published by academics bibliometrically. Bibliometric analysis was applied to 204 articles published in the Web of Science databases under the title of retro marketing and nostalgia marketing with document-archive scanning method. The results of the research were filtered in English and under the topic (title, abstract, author keywords, keywords plus). The universe of the research consists of 204 articles published between 1980-2021. The data were analyzed through the R program under five headings: publication information, citation analysis, vocabulary, author information, and cooperation between countries. The research results aim to present a bibliometric report on articles in English in the Web of Science database related to retro and nostalgia marketing between 1980-2021. It is predicted that the results of the research will form a general guide for research on retro and nostalgia marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to evaluate the development of nationalism academic literature in the world through bibliometric analysis. The absence of a similar study -a bibliometric study on the nationalism literature in Turkey-, which seeks to answer the question of how the development of nationalism is shaped in academic literature, makes this study more meaningful. In this context, contributing to the Turkish political science literature constitutes another goal of this study. This study examines 9175 articles between 1975-2021 on nationalism and related concepts and theories according to the development of the literature in the Web of Science database. There were discussed through co-author analysis on country basis, co-citation analysis on country basis, co-author analysis, co-entity analysis, and bibliometric mapping. According to the results of this study, it has been determined that the concepts of nationalism, racism, ethnicity and modernism have been studied intensively in the nationalism literature, which has a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature, today as well as in the past, and that nationalism continues its potential existence as a field of study in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on overqualification has become a growing area of interest in the last two decades. However, knowledge of the structure and development of overqualification is limited. The main purpose of this research is to visualize the most important topics in the field through scientific maps using subject mapping (co-keyword analysis) and co-citation analysis at the author level, which are bibliometric analysis methods to determine the evolution of perceived overqualification research. In order to determine the intellectual structure of perceived overqualification studies, 56 English-language publications with the word "perceived overqualification" in their titles and scanned in the Web of Science database were analyzed with VOSviewer. Firstly, the most important publications on the subject, the most productive journals, the most influential authors and the distribution of publications by country were summarized with the descriptive analysis method. Then, with the bibliometric analysis method, the most prominent themes in the perceived overqualification research and the interactions between the authors according to the co-citation frequency were determined. According to the results of the current research; perceived overqualification, overqualification, job satisfaction, relative deprivation, job crafting, turnover intention, quantitative, person-job fit and performance are the most commonly used keywords. Two clusters emerged in the co-citation (author level) analysis and the most cited authors are Erdogan, B. and Maynard, D.C. The findings of this study will contribute to researchers to clearly understand the main themes and identify possible gaps in the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Augmented reality technology is one of the current technologies used in many fields such as education, engineering, and industry. The effect of augmented reality on fields attracts the attention of researchers day by day. This research aims to reveal the current situation and trends in the field by examining the articles using augmented reality technologies in the field of maintenance and repair with bibliometric analysis techniques. In the research, 661 documents in the Web of Science database between 1998-2022 were examined. Co-word analysis, citation analysis, and co-authorship analysis, which are bibliometric analysis techniques, were used. In this way, a general evaluation of the field (current trends, most influential author, article, journal, and author collaboration) is presented. Analyzes were performed with VOSwiever software. It has been determined that the current trends are towards education, virtual reality, and industry 4.0, the most influential author is Soh Khim Ong, the most influential magazine is Automation in Construction, and the most effective publication is Augmented reality applications in design and manufacturing. As a result of the findings, suggestions about the field (subject, author, journal, article, and collaboration) were presented to the researchers. The general results of the study shed light on future studies in terms of determining the research interests and trends of publications in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study, it is aimed to determine the historical development of the use of humor in organizations in the context of management discipline with the bibliometric analysis method and to guide those who work in this field in the future by creating a conceptual framework. For this purpose, articles published in the Web of Science database and scanned in different indexes on the use of humor in organizations until 2022 were analyzed by the bibliometric method. 306 articles focusing on the field of management were examined in the keywords, abstract, and title areas. To answer the questions created for the research, various productivity indicators were examined and citation analysis, co-citation, and co-word analysis were performed within the scope of bibliometric analysis. It has been found that the interest in the field of management for studies on the use of humor in organizations has increased in the last 15 years. The fact that the number of publications originating from Turkey is 4 can be considered as an indication that the field of humor use in organizations is open to development in our country. It has also been determined that social media, the leader's use of humor, entertainment at work, status, and content analysis are current issues in the field of "use of humor in organizations". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was carried out to analyze the effectiveness and scientific trend of publications in the academic field with content of “edible mushroom” in the Web of Science database. The data obtained in the study were analyzed using bibliometric techniques. In the study, a total of 6250 data were obtained between 1970-2021 on the investigated subject in Web of Science database without year or document limitation. The data were analyzed in terms of various bibliometric indicators such as index type, distribution by years, distribution by country and cooperation network, citation rates, authors, keywords, trending topics. The studies on edible mushrooms were increased because of their high nutritional value, and of those mushrooms consumption as an alternative food, in medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to examine the general purpose of the third party logistic (3PL) and fourth party logistic (4PL) firms and to examine the 3695 studies published in the Web of Science database between 2001 and 2018 in terms of bibliometry. The focus of this study is to examine the scientific outcomes of the third party logistic (3PL) and fourth party logistic (4PL) firms and to demonstrate the course of research and practices with a qualitative analysis. The data were selected by searching on 10 in Web of Science Core Collection database and social network analysis was applied to these data. The aim of this study is to analyze the scientific data visually. According to the results of the analysis; there has been a significant increase in the number of citations after 2008. The most cited journal is the International Journal of Production Economics and business economy has the most number of publications. According to the analysis of cooperated institutions, the first four institutes are in China and one institute is in USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Maritime transportation is one of the preferred transportation mode in the supply chain due to its advantages such as high transportation volume and low cost. Thus, more than 90 percent of the goods subject to international trade are transported by sea. Ports, on the other hand, act as a bridge between maritime and other transportation modes as one of the important connection points of the supply chain. On the other hand, it contributes to the development of the national economy and competitiveness. Ports, which combine many complex and dynamic activities such as cargo handling, storage, repair and maintenance, and rescue activities, are also facilities that offer value-added services. In the literature, ports have been evaluated as a cargo handling port until the 1960s, as an industrial port until the 1980s, as a logistics/supply chain port after the 1980s, and as a smart port after the 2010s. Therefore, ports need digital transformation in accordance with today's conditions in order to provide integrated services to other stakeholders in the supply chain in intense competition. In this study, it is aimed to examine the studies in the literature on the smart port, which is a current issue, to better understand the development in this field and to inform the researchers. The Web of Science and Scopus databases, which include scientific journals with high impact around the world, were used and 86 studies were reached. As a result of the elimination of studies with various criterias, bibliometric analysis was applied to 19 articles. The findings showed that the concept is new in the literature, the keyword "smart port" is used the most, and China is the leading country contributing to the field. It is thought that this study will open new horizons for researchers on smart ports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to present insights to academics and practitioners in the business world on the interdisciplinary evolution of management issues, based on the literature reflecting the rapid change in academia and business. A bibliometric analysis was carried out on the Web of Science database by examining the reflection of the current situation, the academic publications and subject categories that have shaped the academy and the world of practice since the past. The current and interdisciplinary evolution of issues in the management literature is examined through the context of; (i) the number of publications published annually, (ii) the most leading journals and cited publications, (iii) the topics studied by years, (iv) the evolution and interaction of keywords from past to present. The analysis covers the years 1975-2022 via 748 research. Findings of the analysis reveal the interdisciplinary view of management issues and reflect the interdisciplinary feature by using different methods, especially in management-based journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The family life cycle is a concept that defines the family as a system that changes and develops over time and explains the stages the family goes through in this process of change. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the literature studies on family life cycle. For this purpose, full text resources for the family life cycle between 2000-2020 in DergiPark, EBSCO, Google Academic, YÖK-TEZ, ERIC, PROQUEST and Web of Science databases were discussed. The basis of the study is based on the screening model. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0 and the results are presented descriptively as a graph, frequency and percentage. It is seen that mostly qualitative research methods are used in studies. Although the studies are generally conducted with families, it is understood that many different sample groups have been studied. Family life cycle studies are mainly carried out in the field of Family Counseling and Psychology and apart from these two fields studies are carried out in many different fields such as, sociology, health/medicine, social work, family and consumer sciences, economy, tourism, special education, business, psychological counseling, architecture, geography, marketing educational sciences, recreation, human resources, urban management and theology. In the reviewed studies, the family life cycle has been discussed on many different issues, including family counseling approaches, psychology, coping with stress, spouse burnout, resilience and marital satisfaction. As a result of the scanning, a total of 119 studies, including 61 articles, 40 doctoral dissertations, 15 master theses and 3 books, were reached. The obtained studies were evaluated in terms of method, sample, research area, subject titles and publication type sub-dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Individuals, considered a rational entity in terms of economics, aim to maximize their level of well-being with scarce resources. On the other hand, it is known that individuals are not always a rational being. Behavioral economics suggests that individuals will engage in irrational behavior in their economic decisions. Accordingly, he makes the concept of homo economicus a topic of discussion by engaging in irrational behavior at the decision stages of individuals against traditional economic assumptions. In this study, 605 works obtained by scanning the word "behavioral economics", which are included in the SCI, SSCI and AHCI citation indexes through the Web of Science database between 19752020, are examined bibliometrically. After that, social network analysis is used to visualize corporate, author and country collaborations. When evaluating the publications covered in the study, the countries, institutions and the most cited areas that contribute to the field are visualized using the Vosviewer program. According to the results obtained in the study, studies on "behavioral economics" have experienced an increase since 2008. It is determined that the most commonly used keyword is the word "behavioral economics", which gives the field its name. As behavioral economics is a field between various disciplines, joint working networks for the field are identified and time-oriented trend analysis is considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The family life cycle is a concept that defines the family as a system that changes and develops over time and explains the stages the family goes through in this process of change. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the literature studies on family life cycle. For this purpose, full text resources for the family life cycle between 2000-2020 in DergiPark, EBSCO, Google Academic, YÖK-TEZ, ERIC, PROQUEST and Web of Science databases were discussed. The basis of the study is based on the screening model. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0 and the results are presented descriptively as a graph, frequency and percentage. It is seen that mostly qualitative research methods are used in studies. Although the studies are generally conducted with families, it is understood that many different sample groups have been studied. Family life cycle studies are mainly carried out in the field of Family Counseling and Psychology and apart from these two fields studies are carried out in many different fields such as, sociology, health/medicine, social work, family and consumer sciences, economy, tourism, special education, business, psychological counseling, architecture, geography, marketing educational sciences, recreation, human resources, urban management and theology. In the reviewed studies, the family life cycle has been discussed on many different issues, including family counseling approaches, psychology, coping with stress, spouse burnout, resilience and marital satisfaction. As a result of the scanning, a total of 119 studies, including 61 articles, 40 doctoral dissertations, 15 master theses and 3 books, were reached. The obtained studies were evaluated in terms of method, sample, research area, subject titles and publication type sub-dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to make a bibliometric analysis of the Activity Based Cost (FDM) method, which provides more accurate cost calculation than the traditional method of costs in healthcare enterprises and to provide detailed information to the researchers. For this purpose, articles published in the Web of Science database in the field of ABC method were first reduced to 5134 articles by applying certain inclusion principles and then analyzed from a bibliometric point by visual mapping technique. It is seen mostly between 2015-2019 that 51% of the articles published in the Web of Science database related to ABC in healthcare enterprises and in the USA 39% in distribution by countries. According to the authors in the analysis conducted within the scope of VosViewer software, it was determined that according to the authors, Van Mechelen, Willem, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine jourmal was the most cited. As a result, this study, which is carried out extensively on articles with general validity, is expected to guide authors who will work on ABC and bibliometric analysis and future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainability is involved in all areas of life via increasing environmental awareness. The interaction of innovations and improvements made with the environment lies at the basis of sustainability. In this regard, how and at what levels the practices, which are considered as green innovation, are handled in the managerial context constitute the basis of the research. For this purpose, as a result of the compilation and bibliometric analysis of the studies in the Web of Science database, which include the concept of green innovation and managerial practices, some findings regarding the state and development direction of the field have been reached. Thus, forecasts were provided regarding the missing aspects and the trends expected to occur in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, innovation that results from technological improvements and developments directly affects societies and social life. This interaction led to the emergence of the concept of social innovation. Social innovation is the process of developing and implementing effective solutions to social and environmental problems in order to support social progress. The aim of the study is to investigate the researches about the concept of social innovation, which has come to the fore in recent years, by using bibliometric analysis method. For this purpose, the Web of Science database is scanned using the concept of social innovation between 2010-2019 and a total of 579 publications are reached. Publications are visualized by VOSviewer mapping method. In the end of the analysis of these studies, it is seen that the most frequently used keyword is "social innovation", the most published and most co-authored author is Antonius Schröder, and the most cited author is Frances R. Westley. In addition, it is among the findings that Spain is the most broadcasting country (90 broadcasts) and England is the country with the most citation (915 citations). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globally increasing competition and concern of survival have been the main challenges companies have to cope with. To overcome these challenges, managers had to use some strategic tools. One of these is the SWOT analysis, which allows enterprises to analyze and examination both their internal environment and their external environment at the same time. SWOT analysis has been widely used in the health care services sector, which has recently faced new challenges. In this study that aims to research in detail the scientific articles published in the SWOT analysis on health care services and to examine how the changes have changed over time relatively, the data have been obtained from the Web of Science academic database. As a result of the analysis carried out in the light of the data obtained, it has been seen that the studies on SWOT analysis in health care services have been published mostly between the years 2011-2015 and they are in the qualitative research type. Though the agecy of this study, which includes important informations to guide health care managers in various fields, it has been thought that further use of SWOT analysis in health care services.will be lead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of study is to examine the researches published in the field of recreation in the period 19802019 with bibliometric perspective and to determine the trends in this field in the last 39 years. In this context, the Web of Science database was searched out under the title of recreation within the scope of 'hospitality, leisure and toruism'. In the research, number of publications, types of publications, publication languages, country collaborations, citation analysis, common citation networks and word-subject trends were analyzed. Social network analysis was used to reveal the situation within the extant literature confined through research purpose. According to the results, it can be said that interest in the field in the context of recreation publications has increased significantly since 2010. The majority of publications type is article.The language in which the publications are written mostly is English (96%). There is no publication in Turkish language.It has been found that America plays an important role in the country's collaborations. While the average number of citations per publication in the field of recreation is 7.99, the average number of citations per year is 519. Recreation and specialization in active recreation is the most studied subjects in the field. It has been concluded that the most used words in the studies are recreation, entertainment and outdoor recreation. The words with high centrality are experience, resources and participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education, research, and implementation activities of universities necessitate access to information in the most accurate and fastest manner in today's conditions. In this regard; Members of Ankara University have to access scientific information through the most contemporary information and communication technology in the electronic environment, primarily through the global internet system. Each scientific database has specific standard characteristics. These properties gain importance in terms of the correctness and speed of access to the data contained in the database. The sources of scientific information that the members of Ankara University will need are presented in the electronic environment using the most contemporary information and communication technologies. This article aims to determine the information needs of the members of Ankara University and to determine the information access and the use of information by identifying the information access model for researching the educational facilities and the necessary infrastructure and technical support so that the maximum benefit can be obtained from the electronic library. Aims at realizing their application by determining the information model and content for this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, it was aimed to reveal the general appearance of postgraduate theses related to the use of poetry as a literary genre and the teaching of poetry in teaching Turkish. The data were obtained by conducting sampling at the level of concept and master science from the database of the National Dissertation Center of the Council of Higher Education with a sampling technique for the purpose of the study. Only the "poetry teaching" and "the use of poetry in teaching Turkish" were limited in the scope of the theses included in the research. Thirty-five theses reached through the database; year, type, university, institute, subject, method, pattern, sample/study group/scope of research. During this process, the "Graduate Thesis Classification Form (GTCF)" developed by the researcher was used. Meta-analysis has been adopted in the research. As a result, it is understood that the theses are at the graduate level and that more dissertations have been made in Dokuz Eylül University and Atatürk University than in other universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quality of the dictionaries written with the target group in mind are adversely affected due to the lack of scientific data on the effective use of dictionaries by students that are users of school dictionaries adversely affect. It is necessary to determine students' levels of habits related to dictionary use so as to overcome these adverse effects. To fill this gap in the literature, the study aimed to investigate middle school students' dictionary use habits. The participants of the study were the group of students, with 8 students in each group, from grades 5 to 8 at TOKİ Şehit Jandarma Er Osman Öden Middle School. Qualitative research techniques were utilized in the study. Phenomenography, one of the qualitative research methods, was used to analyze the data collected through semi-structured interview forms. The results of the study indicated that there was a positive relation between the students' grade levels and students' dictionary use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AIM: A content analysis of five newspapers with the highest circulation numbers in selected months on obesity including assessment of the news' concordance status with recent scientific data and the manipulation status by the advertisement sector. METHODS: Newspapers were determined via "Press Announcement Institution" data in May 2012. Random selection of 4 months were completed to evaluate the newspapers within one year period before February 2012 which was the last accessible date of the National Library Archive. In conclusion, 151 published news in March, August, October 2011, February 2012 were evaluated. RESULTS: Majority of the news were found in concordance with the recent scientific data (61,6%) and majority of them were not manipulated by the advertisement sector (86,1%). Statistically significantly difference were found between the concordance of the news with recent scientific data and news' characteristics like main content, being published in a particular section, type of the news, being noted of the person(s) who had prepared the news, source of scientific data, etc. News were found as they were statistically significantly manipulated by the advertisement sector due to a number of characteristics as well. CONCLUSION: Systematic solution is recommended to be developed to overcome determined lacking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]