Marmara Üniversitesi Kadın ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Bibliometrics
is defined as the application of mathematical and statistical methods to books and
other communication environments (Pritchard 1969: 348).  In this context, the findings obtained by
bibliometric researches of scientific publications contribute to the
determination of the present situation of a field of science and it can also
provide an insight about its progress. The aim of this research is to carry out
a bibliographic analysis of public relations articles written by female authors
in the journals published by Communication faculties in Turkey. In the
research, in order to reveal the profile of the academic articles written by
the female authors in the field of public relations in Turkey, the faculty
journals compliant with the determined criteria in the field of communication
were handled.In this context, the first 10 years of the first communication
faculties, which were transformed from the School of Press and Broadcasting  to Communication Faculties in 1992, and
in which the Public Relations Departments were established in 1993 were
included in the study with their academic journals in ULAKBİM, which were
accessible online. It was observed that 4 journals were suitable according to
the mentioned criteria and the research was carried out in this scope. In this
context, all the articles since the initial publication dates of the four faculty
magazines were scanned and 275 articles in the field of Public Relations were
identified out of 2.586 articles. Of these articles, 140 were identified as
single female author articles and coded by two authors and subjected to
bibliometric analysis. The questions asked in this study are: QS1: What is the gender distribution
of authors of academic publications in the field of public relations? Q2: What
is the qualitative-theoretical / quantitative ratio of scientific publications
made by female authors in the field of public relations? Q3: What is the
distribution of all public relations articles published by the female authors
since the first issue of journals which are covered in this research? Q4: What
is the distribution of scientific publications made by female authors in the
field of public relations according to years? Q5: What is the distribution of
scientific publications made by female authors in the field of public relations
according to the provinces represented by authors? Q6: What is the distribution
of scientific publications made by female authors in the field of public
relations according to the institutions represented by the authors? Q7: What is
the distribution of scientific publications made by female authors in the field
of public relations according to their subjects? It was not possible to make a
comparison between the findings of the researches due to the fact of
interruption of publications for some years, differences in years etc. It
is foreseen, however, that the research will provide an analysis of the
existing academic work published by female authors in the field of public
relations in Turkey.