A Review On The Most Downloaded Articles On The Dergipark Platform In 2021

• Published in: Social Scientific Centered Issues Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21
• Main Authors: Altıntop, Mevlüt, Bak, Gökhan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30.06.2025
• ISSN: 2687-6221
• DOI: 10.71249/ssci.1608733

DergiPark is an important database for academic studies in Türkiye. The titles of the topmost downloaded articles in 2021 in DergiPark are; “The Aspects of Family Myth in the Films Korkuyorum Anne and Vavien“, “Comparison with the Management Thought and the Guild Organization Structure at the Ottoman Government” and “Evaluation of Ghazwas and Seriyyas in the Light of Sunen-i Ibn Mâja” respectively. These articles have been written in three different subject areas and are not related to each other. The fact that the analyzed articles are “trending” reveals the importance of the study. The first aim of the study is to determine the quality of the articles in question and to show their commonalities and/or differences in this context. The second aim is to draw meaningful conclusions about the quality of both the studies and the readership by making rational inferences about the reasons for the high popularity of the articles. In this way, data can be obtained both about an online academic platform and the profile information of the articles which are in demand. For this purpose, the abstracts of the top three most downloaded articles in 2021 were analyzed through content analysis. The content analysis was evaluated based on different social science phenomena. In the evaluation phase, coding technique was applied to the abstract texts of the articles with the MAXQDA program and inferences were made by analyzing the code maps. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded which the three most downloaded articles do not have much in common except that they are social science studies, but that they largely reflect the society we live in in terms of socio-cultural and socio-political aspects.