Capturing women's standpoint in EU–Turkey studies: The evolution of gendered publication and citation patterns

Abstract

Starting from the‘gender problem’in European studies, we scrutinize the gendered knowledgeproduction patterns in a least likely case to be gendered, EU–Turkey studies, due to the overrep-resentation of women in thefield and its feminine image. We utilize feminist standpoint theoryand apply research synthesis and citation analysis techniques to two original datasets comprising300 articles in 26 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals, published from 1996 to 2020and involving 8494 citations. Ourfindings reveal that male-dominated knowledge marks evenEU–Turkey studies with men outnumbering women in authorships and an extremely limitednumber of articles focusing on gender, whilst ampler disparities transpire infirst authorshipsand citations. Whilst women have progressively disrupted male-dominated knowledge by sur-passing male authorship numbers since 2014, engaging in greater theoretical sophisticationand having a greater inclination to cite women, limited incorporation of women’s standpointhinders thefield’s potential to address gender inequalities and promote gender-sensitive policiesand development.