New Research Trends for the Caucasus Mountains: A Bibliometric Analysis

In the research, international studies on the Caucasus Mountains were examined bibliometrically. The research aimed to answer the following basic question: What is the current development of its literature on the Caucasus Mountains and where will it evolve in the future? The secondary questions are; What are the main concepts and new themes in the Caucasus Mountains, which countries are interested, which authors are the citational focus, where are the new collaborational focuses and what is their disciplinary distribution? In the research bibliometric network analysis technique was used. According to the results, the most important countries in terms of the number of publications are the USA, Russia and Georgia. When examining the spatial distribution of the publications, 251 out of 327 works were determined in the fields of natural sciences and engineering. Although the Caucasus Mountains have a common spatial unit in the countries of the region, the level of cooperation is low according to analysis.