Post-graduate Thesis on Logistics and Supply Chain in Turkey: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Turkey’s advantageous location connects Europe with Asia and which has seas from all three sides gives a potential for being the world’s logistics hub. For these reasons enough attention needs to be given to the improvements in logistics and supply chain in Turkey. The purpose of the study is to reveal how the distribution graduate theses in logistics and supply chain prepared in Turkey according to different criteria from 1993 until today. The data of the research were collected from national thesis center and the obtained data were analyzed and some statistics were obtained. According to this, 525 theses are examined according to their degree, status of university, cities they have been prepared for, years, institutes and key words used. It is reached the result that the majority of master and doctorate theses in logistics and supply chain are written in public universities. The three most studied provinces are Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. It seems that a limited number of theses were made until 2000. Significant increases have been observed in the theses after 2000. In supply chain field, the highest numbers of theses were written in Istanbul Technical University with 57 theses. In logistics field, the Institute of Social Sciences is the first place followed by the Institute of Natural and Applied and Institute of Defense Science. In supply chain field, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences is the first and the second is Institute of Social Sciences. Most of the theses in supply chain field were about management

Keywords

• Bibliometric analysis; doctorate thesis; logistics; master thesis; supply chain.