Özet:

Bibliometric studies have recently become quite popular to draw a comprehensive picture of a chosen subject. This study aims to keep the light on the postgraduate theses of the Department of Recreation Management, a developing field of science. To this objective, 134 postgraduate thesis studies (2015-2021) registered in the National Thesis Center of the Higher Education Council (YOK) have been subjected to bibliometric evaluation in the framework of the year of publication, the type of thesis, the field of research and the subject, the university, the research method, the scale type used in research, the validity and reliability of the research and the analysis technique. According to the analysis, the number of theses that are most master theses has been a relative increase over the years. The results showed that the theses produced in the Department of Recreation Management are mainly focused on recreational activities and recreational participation. It is also found that the research areas of the theses are mainly sports and tourism. Gazi University-Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University is the most producing university. Finally, it has been found that postgraduate theses in recreation management are carried out by quantitative research methods, but the majority of the theses do not apply any validity while the data are evaluated. Also, although many researchers have not performed normality tests, parametric tests are also another remarkable result. In fact, the recreation management work is still in the stage of clarification and there is a lot of work to do to succeed.

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