Bibliometric review of postgraduate theses in banking sciences (2002-2022)

Abstract

In the research, a bibliometric analysis was conducted on Turkish masters and doctoral theses published and available at the National Center for Scientific Theses, which were conducted in the field of banking and included banking applications in terms of subject matter. A total of 114 theses were studied, including 29 doctoral theses and 85 master's theses, which met the criteria specified in the research. In the study, the theses were monitored according to years, topics, places of publication and method used, and the frequencies of concepts in the titles were evaluated. In addition, the studies were discussed according to their topics and an attempt was made to identify the common aspects between them. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that most of the studies were conducted in 2016 (9 studies). When the frequency of words used in the titles was analyzed, the highest percentage was due to the concept of