fig congress 2018 - Bibliometric analysis of articles presented under commission 7: a case of the 25th Fig Congress in Malaysİa in 2014

Zeynel Abidin Plat, Hicret Gursoy Surmeneli, Mehmet Alkan

Examination of written studies conducted in certain sciences in specific periods is of great importance both in determining the level of development in the sciences covered and in determining the intensity over which subjects are predominant. For this purpose, the congresses organized by various institutions with certain periods and the related studies are shared with related persons and institutions. One of the institutions that make a great contribution to the global development of our profession is the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). Commissions created in the FIG are given the future direction of our profession. In the congresses organized by the FIG in various countries every 4 years, various academic studies are presented under the name of commissions. It informs and directs the reader about the relevant topic with the information it contains in academic works (Article, papers, etc.), an important tool for sharing information. By means of a bibliometric method, which is a kind of scientific text analysis, certain findings of documents or publications are analyzed and various findings related to scientific communication are obtained. The purpose of this study is to share the results of a bibliometric analysis of academic studies presented under Commission 7 at the 25th FIG Congress in Malaysia in 2014. The following questions have been set for the analysis: - How are the articles distributed according to the countries? - How is the distribution of the articles content according to the countries? - How is subject distribution of the articles? - How is the distribution of the articles according to the number of authors? With the answers given to the questions, it is evaluated the progress of scientific development from a professional point of view.

Event: FIG Congress 2018: Embracing our smart world where the continents connect - Enhancing geospatial maturity of societies

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