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Social network analysis is an important tool used to investigate relationship structures. Also, in terms of quality, it provides the evaluation of the relationship structures of scientific publications, cooperation levels, determination of productive authors, and the situation in the number of quotes. In this study, prominent authors and departments and level of institutional cooperation in the field of regional development in Turkey are examined with the help of the social network analysis and centrality measures of the nodes. Between the years 1975-2017, 158 articles, proceedings papers, reviews and materials of regional development studies addresing Turkey in the citation index (SCI, SSCI and AHCI) were evaluated. The results show that the rate of regional development studies published in citation indexes increased after 2010. Studies do not have sufficient institutional support and are also published in journals with low the impact factor. In addition, although regional development studies belong to economic science, it is seen that the number of publications is higher in other areas such as city and regional planning.

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