Collaboration of Turkish Scholars: Local or Global?

Collaboration patterns of scholars have been the subject of many studies. This paper investigates the collaboration patterns of the Turkish scholars' publications within the citation indexes. Turkey's contribution to the world's scientific literature has increased significantly during the recent years. It is important to understand the collaboration types in scholarly communication in order to derive a legitimate scientific publication policy in Turkey. In this context, the following research questions have been addressed: 1. Is the multiple authorship prevalent in the Turkish publications? 2. Does the collaboration rate change by year? 3. What is the distribution of collaboration types (intranational/international) authored by Turkish scholars? 4. Does the rate and type of collaboration differ across the disciplines? 5. Which countries are the most important collaborative partners of Turkish scholars? Based on the analysis of findings, we found that Turkish scholars generally collaborate intranationally.