Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi ve Uluslararası Çalışma Örgütü (ILO)
Verda Canbey ÖzgülerTürkiye’de İstanbul Üniversitesi, İktisat Fakültesi Çalışma Ekonomisi ve Endüstri İlişkileri Bölümü bünyesinde 1948 yılından beri yayın hayatına devam etmekte olan Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi sosyal politika geleneğinin oluşmasında ve sürdürülmesinde önemli bir yere sahiptir. 1948 yılından günümüze kadar derginin geçirdiği aşamalar, değişim ve dönüşüm, Türkiye’de sosyal politika alanı ile ilgili olarak yapılmış olan çalışmalar için dikkate değer bir akademik ortam sunmaktadır. 1948 yılı, aynı zamanda Türkiye’nin onayladığı Uluslararası Çalışma Örgütü (ILO) sözleşmeleri bakımından önemli bir yıldır. 1932-1946 yılları arasında sadece bir ILO Sözleşmesini onaylayan Türkiye, 1946-1959 yılları arasında 11 sözleşme imzalamıştır. Bu bağlamda çalışma ilişkileri ve sosyal politika alanında uluslararası düzeyde önemli bir kurum olan ILO ile Türkiye’deki ilk sosyal politika külliyatını oluşturan derginin kuruluşu aynı yıllara rastlamaktadır.
Bu çalışmada 2019 yılında 100. yılına ulaşmış olan ILO ile 71. yılına ulaşmış Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi nitel araştırma yöntemiyle analiz edilmektedir.
Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisinin analizi tek bir yönteme başvurulamayacak kadar derinliklidir. Zira derginin ortaya çıkışı ve tarihçesi incelendiğinde hakemli bilimsel dergi olma ölçütüne göre 2003 öncesi ve sonrası, basılı dergiden internet ortamına taşınması ölçütü ele alınırsa 2009 - 2010 öncesi ve sonrası gibi farklı dönemleştirmeler yapılabilecektir.
Journal of Social Policy Conferences and International Labor Organization (ILO)
Verda Canbey ÖzgülerThe Journal of Social Policy Conferences, which since 1948 has been published within the body of the Faculty of Economics, Labor Economics, and the Industrial Relations Department at Istanbul University, Turkey, has played an important part in the formation and maintenance of social policy tradition. With the stages, changes, and transformation that it has undergone from 1948 to the present, the journal offers an outstanding academic setting for research in the field of social policy in Turkey. In addition, 1948 is an important year in terms of the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions approved by Turkey. Turkey, which ratified only one ILO convention between the years 1932 and 1946, signed 11 conventions between the years 1946 and 1959. In this context, ILO, which is an important institution at international level in the field of labor relations and social policy, and the journal that created the first social policy corpus in Turkey, were founded in the same period. In this study,
ILO, which reached its 100th year in 2019, and the Journal of Social Policy Conferences, which in the same year reached its 71st year, are analyzed using qualitative research method.
The Journal of Social Policy Conferences is too deep to be analyzed through a single method. This is because when the origin and history of the journal is examined, it is clear that different periodizations can be made (e.g before and after 2003 according to the criterion of being a peerreviewed scientific journal; before and after 2009-2010 based on the criterion of transfer to the internet environment from the printed journal).
The Journal of Social Policy Conferences, which since 1948 has been published within the body of the Faculty of Economics, Labor Economics, and the Industrial Relations Department at Istanbul University, Turkey, plays an important part in the formation and maintenance of social policy tradition. With the stages, changes, and transformation it has undergone from 1948 to the present, the journal offers an outstanding academic setting for research in the field of social policy in Turkey. In addition, 1948 is an important year in terms of the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions approved by Turkey. Turkey, which ratified only one ILO convention between the years 1932 and 1946, signed 11 conventions between the years 1946 and 1959. In this context, ILO, which is an important institution at international level in the field of labor relations and social policy, and the journal that created the first social policy corpus in Turkey were founded in the same period.
The main hypothesis of this study is to highlight the importance within scientific and academic development of long-term academic publications being able to present to their readers the reflections of the social, political and economic developments of the periods with which they are concerned. Starting from this, the purpose of the study is to examine how ILO, which is one of the major international institutions in terms of industrial relations and working life, is reflected in the Journal of Social Policy Conferences as a journal that has been maintaining its publishing activities through 71 years.
This study firstly presents the history of the Journal of Social Policy Conferences. Then, within the scope of “Qualitative Analysis of the Journal of Social Policy Conferences”, the articles in the journal are subjected to qualitative analysis regardless of periods. After that, the journal articles dealing with ILO, -and those covering the basic ILO conventions are examined under the title of “ILO in the Journal of Social Policy Conferences”.
The literature review shows that different academic publications such as journals and graduate studies are analyzed through various qualitative research methods, namely document analysis, content analysis, and bibliometric analysis. With 71 years of history, the Journal of Social Policy Conferences is too deep to be analyzed through a single method. This is because when the origin and history of the journal is examined, it is clear that different periodizations can be made (e.g before and after 2003 according to the criterion of being a peerreviewed scientific journal; before and after 2009-2010 based on the criterion of transfer to the internet environment from the printed journal).
In this article, the reflection of ILO in academia is presented through the Journal of Social Policy Conferences, the academic representative of the social policy field in the national arena. The fact that the study is the first one to subject the Journal of Social Policy Conferences to qualitative bibliometric analysis shows its originality. However, this originality also carries with it the difficulties of making an analysis that complies with the spirit of the journal. In this context, the study should be considered as an “exploratory” preliminary study that can guide future studies with how it all started and how it continued as well as the research method it employed.
The database used in the research was created by transferring all the files in the journal archive to the Excel program through the DergiPark system. Analyses were performed on 830 files excluding the records coded as “Imprint, Editorial, Table of Contents”, “Editorial”, and “Foreword” from among the those included in the dataset created within the scope of the study.
The calculation results indicate that the journal does not comply with the 80/20 rule, which states that 80% of all articles published in the journal should be written by 20% of the authors, and neither does it comply with Price’s law, which measures the productivity of the authors. However, it does comply with Lotka’s law, which measures the contribution to the literature. In light of the calculation made according to Lotka’s law, which is a quantitative estimation of how many articles the authors have contributed to the literature, it can be said that the 71-year journal will continue to contribute to the field as an academic platform in the following years as well.
There are 30 studies directly containing the word “ILO” in their titles. This number amounts to 3.6% of the total number of studies. There are few studies directly addressing ILO which can be repeated within the scope of the journal covered in the present study as well.
The Journal of Social Policy Conferences, which has grown and developed concurrently with the social policy history of Turkey, has aspects that, by maintaining its mission from tradition to future, flourish, create a tradition, sustain such tradition, and have a significant collective power.