İşletme Tarihi Üzerine Bibliyometrik Bir Çalışma 1991'den 2023'e Web of Science'daki Yayınların İncelenmesi

Business history research is needed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the development and dynamics of businesses over time. The aim of this research is to reveal the changes in business history using the bibliometric analysis method. Thus, while providing information about past and current situations, various predictions about the future are also presented. For this purpose, it is aimed to make inferences about the relevant literature through bibliometric analysis of public data of publications in the field of business history indexed in Web of Science (WoS). Due to their nature, bibliometric studies may produce different results in each period, even if they are carried out in the same field. Therefore, the data set prepared for the current period includes 1516 publications published between 1991-2023. Studies on the subject obtained from the WoS database were analyzed through the Biblioshiny program with R source code. Biblioshiny was preferred due to the fact that it is a publicly available program and the ease it provides in visualizing the relevant analysis outputs. In addition, content analysis, which was considered relatively difficult to perform on scientific studies in previous periods, can also be performed through this program. Content analyzes make it possible to get an idea about the essence of the facts, making bibliometric studies more than just a counting and listing task. After the data was obtained in accordance with various search criteria (language, publication type, field), manual control was carried out by the researchers. Manual control enabled the detection and elimination of studies that appeared to be related to the subject at the first search but had different fields. The outputs of the analyzes performed after compiling and sorting the data set are discussed in two parts. In the initial part of the findings, information about the authors of the works in the data set, their institutions, the journals in which they were published, their countries of origin, their subjects, and their relationships with each other were shared. As a result of bibliometric analysis, it was seen that the studies came mainly from the USA, England, and Australia. It has been observed that Harvard University leads among the institutions, but Scandinavian universities such as Copenhagen and Uppsala are also in the top twenty-five in terms of productivity. It has been found that British and American universities mostly cooperate with each other, an