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This study, which focuses on social distance literature, which is the concept that came to the agenda with Covid-19, aims to analyze academic articles on social distance published in the world from a meta-thematic perspective. Social distance, one of the most important concepts and practices of recent times; It has a comprehensive, multidimensional and social sciences. It is thought that such a study about social distance literature in the world, the concept of social distance, which was handled differently with Covid-19, is important in terms of creating a profile regarding the scientific nature of the phenomenon of interpersonal communication of social distance and the appearance of social distance in the world. The study was carried out on international databases between March-June 2020. In this context, Web of Science, Science Direct, Sage, Springer Link constitute the sample of the research. Within the scope of the study created in the qualitative design, the academic articles obtained from these databases were analyzed by meta-thematic analysis method. The research findings were interpreted according to certain themes and the details of the findings were reflected in the conclusion part of the study and inferences were made regarding the concept of social distance.

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