Disciplinary Differences

The aim of this research to determine the basic dynamics of folklore research and examine general characteristics of discipline with comparing the topics that studied in Turkey and international literature. In this context, growths of scientific knowledge and existing indexing system have been examined by Scientometric point of view. The literature of folklore studies has been evaluated with a hybrid approach that combined, social network analysis and text mining applications, bibliometric data and Scientometric laws which are both similar approach relationship and dynamics of field. Current trends of folklore publications and cultural heritage material classification seen that general framework of publication are closely related to folklore core publication journals. Our findings confirm that scientific cooperation between researchers' that are regularly published in folklore related journals and diversity of sources that are used in folklore. Considering this literature and its applications it seems that the interconnections in folklore between collaboration and multi-authored papers may be more complex than the others. Most of the authors works alone (%93), in other words according to the results of the study, in folklore researches single-authored papers predominate. A number of publications have reflected on the new collaborative possibilities that after the year 2010. However, looking to studies of collaborative publication patterns in folklore studies, it is clear that relatively little has been done on this from a quantitative perspective. The visualization of the network has shown that folklore publication dynamics are based on single authored papers. It can be defined the folklore discipline is closed research area, based on reference sources.