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The aim of the study is to make a bibliometric analysis of the graduate theses on health tourism prepared in Turkey between 1988 and 2017. The analysis-based period is divided into four periods (pre-90s, 1991-2000, 2001-2010, 2011-2017), which is aimed at comparing periods and determining possible changes. For this purpose, the postgraduate theses are scanned from the database of the YÖK National Thesis Center with the keywords 'health tourism, medical tourism, thermal tourism, disabled tourism and aging tourism. In the result of the scan, 139 master theses and 29 doctoral theses were studied according to the parameters of the 'type and year of thesis, the university in which it was prepared, the branch of anatomy in which it was prepared, the institute in which it was prepared, the main subjects of the theses, the method of research of the theses, the status of permission of the theses'. Some important findings of the study are as follows: When graduate theses are evaluated according to the prepared university, most graduate theses are prepared at the University of Nine September (13). The subject of health tourism, which is most focused in the postgraduate theses, is the subject of thermal tourism with 68 master theses and 13 doctoral theses. The majority of the thesis on health tourism was prepared at the Institute of Social Sciences (137) . In terms of anabolic branches, the business anabolic branch (52) is ranked first, while the tourism business anabolic branch (50) follows it.

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