Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewer

The aim of this research is to make a bibliometric analysis of the articles including the concept of ‘homeless’ in the field of social work. Web of Science (WoS) was used as the database and VOSviewer was used as the data analysis program. The research dataset was created on 15.03.2024. A bibliometr...

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Main Author: Cengizhan Aynacı
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Language:deu
Published: Istanbul University Press 2024-12-01
Series:İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi
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description The aim of this research is to make a bibliometric analysis of the articles including the concept of ‘homeless’ in the field of social work. Web of Science (WoS) was used as the database and VOSviewer was used as the data analysis program. The research dataset was created on 15.03.2024. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 2710 articles within the WoS database, focusing on journals indexed in SSCI, SCI-Expanded, ESCI, and AHCI under the social work category. According to the results of the research, the first article containing the concept of homeless in the field of social work belongs to 1982. The countries with the highest number of publications and citations are the USA, Canada and the UK. The University of Toronto, the University of Denver and the University of Southern California are the institutions producing the most research on homelessness, while the most cited institutions are New York University, the University of Toronto and the University of Denver. These universities lead in homelessness research due to their high volume of published and cited authors. The three most published authors are Ferguson, Bender and Tsai, and the three most cited authors are Shinn, Ferguson and Culhane. Beyond “homelessness”, the most frequently used keywords are “mental health”, “housing”, “homeless youth”, “poverty” and “foster care”. Mental health in homeless people is related to housing support, severe mental illness, trauma, health and social care. The concept housing has strong associations with words such as family, youth homelessness, health, foster care and child welfare. The three most frequently referenced themes in articles are the difficulties experienced by the homeless (housing, mental health, substance abuse, poverty), homeless social groups (homeless children, homeless youth, homeless women) and services for the homeless (foster care, housing support, housing-first, shelter). In the last decade, there has been an increase in interest in foster care services for homeless people (shelter, staircase model and housing-first).
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spelling doaj-art-e75fa195535342afa52db638033603fa2025-08-20T02:57:43ZdeuIstanbul University Pressİstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi2667-69312024-12-0144293596710.26650/SJ.2024.44.2.0663123456Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewerCengizhan Aynacı0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6536-6642Sakarya Üniversitesi, Sakarya, TürkiyeThe aim of this research is to make a bibliometric analysis of the articles including the concept of ‘homeless’ in the field of social work. Web of Science (WoS) was used as the database and VOSviewer was used as the data analysis program. The research dataset was created on 15.03.2024. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 2710 articles within the WoS database, focusing on journals indexed in SSCI, SCI-Expanded, ESCI, and AHCI under the social work category. According to the results of the research, the first article containing the concept of homeless in the field of social work belongs to 1982. The countries with the highest number of publications and citations are the USA, Canada and the UK. The University of Toronto, the University of Denver and the University of Southern California are the institutions producing the most research on homelessness, while the most cited institutions are New York University, the University of Toronto and the University of Denver. These universities lead in homelessness research due to their high volume of published and cited authors. The three most published authors are Ferguson, Bender and Tsai, and the three most cited authors are Shinn, Ferguson and Culhane. Beyond “homelessness”, the most frequently used keywords are “mental health”, “housing”, “homeless youth”, “poverty” and “foster care”. Mental health in homeless people is related to housing support, severe mental illness, trauma, health and social care. The concept housing has strong associations with words such as family, youth homelessness, health, foster care and child welfare. The three most frequently referenced themes in articles are the difficulties experienced by the homeless (housing, mental health, substance abuse, poverty), homeless social groups (homeless children, homeless youth, homeless women) and services for the homeless (foster care, housing support, housing-first, shelter). In the last decade, there has been an increase in interest in foster care services for homeless people (shelter, staircase model and housing-first).https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/1032D16D663B4980A8393326D47A7BB4social workhomelessnesssystematic literature reviewbibliometric analysisweb of sciencevosviewer
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Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewer
İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi
social work
homelessness
systematic literature review
bibliometric analysis
web of science
vosviewer
title Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewer
title_full Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewer
title_fullStr Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewer
title_full_unstemmed Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewer
title_short Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on the Concept of “Homeless” in Social Work with VoSviewer
title_sort bibliometric analysis of articles on the concept of homeless in social work with vosviewer
topic social work
homelessness
systematic literature review
bibliometric analysis
web of science
vosviewer
url https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/1032D16D663B4980A8393326D47A7BB4
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