bibliometric analysis of physical education and instruction-themed phd theses

Nowadays, universities are seen as the centre of scientific activities and multidisciplinary branches of science emerge as a result of the developments in the scientific field. this study aims to evaluate the doctoral theses on physical education and sports, which have been developing and divided into sub-disciplines by being influenced by many disciplines, with bibliometric analysis. scope of work; the national thesis center was used as a data collection tool to reach studies that include physical education and teaching words in the thesis title. in this context, 26 doctoral dissertations that include the keywords of physical education and teaching in the thesis title between 2007 and 2020 constituted the sample of the study. the distribution of theses by years, gender distribution, advisor titles, number and type of bibliography used, analysis of keywords, universities, institutes, departments and subject areas, participant types and characteristics constituted the variables of the study; percentage and frequency from descriptive statistics were used for data analysis of the study. as a result of the research, it was found that doctoral dissertations were mainly made by men (n = 18, 69.2%), most doctoral dissertations were made at gazi university, the highest number of doctoral dissertations on an institute basis was made in the institute of health sciences (n = 11, 42.3%) and the department it was determined that most of the doctoral dissertations were made in the department of physical education and sports (n = 11, 38,5%). in addition, based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that researchers in the field of physical education and sports tend to do quantitative analysis (71.3%) and that due to the multidisciplinary nature of the branch of science, a wide range of studies from educational science to sports management can be done with the keywords of physical education and training.