Orta Asya Hakkında Yazılmış Makalelerin Bibliyometrik Analizi

This article aims to analyze the relationships between Central Asian studies written in politicalscience and international relations that are indexed in Web of Science based on author, country,keywords, and abstracts. In this framework, 1,082 studies were bibliometrically analyzed. The firstresult of the study is that there has been an increase in the number of articles written in Central Asiaafter 1990. On the other hand, most authors researching on Central Asia live in the USA. In theanalyzed articles, Central Asia was associated with Russia 33 times, China 25 times, geopolitics 12times, and terrorism 10 times. After 2017, in the studies conducted within the framework of Russia,China, India, and Japan's Central Asia policies, concepts such as Eurasia, civil society, regionalsecurity, strategic partnership, Belt and Road Initiative, alliance, Shanghai CooperationOrganization, and hegemony were brought to the agenda.Keywords: Central Asia, Bibliometric Analysis, Scientific Articles, Web of Science.