Scientific publication performance in educational sciences: G-20 countries and turkey

The purpose of this study is to examine the educational sciences scientific publication performance of Turkey and G-20 countries relatively by using some bibliometric data. This study was designed as a case study. Study group composed of Turkey and other G-20 countries. Bibliometric variables for educational sciences were obtained from SCImago and Ulakbim databases. Data analysis was processed with document analysis technique. Findings show that the number of published documents has increased dramatically in most of the G-20 countries since 2012. That is the same case for citable documents variable. Turkey is in the upper level for those variables. As for cites and citation rates, the rank differs considerably. While Turkey is in a better place for the first three variables, its citation rate rank is far below the table. On the other hand, h-index and impact factor vary greatly among the countries and some specific countries attract more attention with their performance values. To sum up, Turkey, with its documents, citable documents and cites, has relatively better statistics than citation rate, h- index and impact factor. This shows that the success gained in quantitative variables does not reflect positively on qualitative ones.