摘要：The social and scientific importance of doctoral dissertations have increased in the context of Mission Differentiation and Specialization Project in Turkey and potential doctoral studies should be carefully conducted with the aim of contribution to community development, policies, science and practice area through the envisaged research fields.The purpose of this study is to examine doctoral dissertations in architecture in the academic literature within the scope of Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education and to reveal the researchers’ profile with a view to contributing to the evolving research agenda in Turkey. For this purpose quantitative analyses of doctoral dissertations in Architecture in Turkey is made. The universe of the study constitutes 1170 doctoral dissertations completed between 1990-2018, which are archived in the database of the Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education and indexed under the subject architecture. All of the doctoral dissertations included in the sample were analyzed using various standards such as the years they were completed, the language they were written in, the university they were completed in, the gender of the author, and the advisor’s title. The collected data was analyzed with descriptive statistical methods. According to the results, it was found out that the highest number of dissertations produced was in the architectural design discipline, by mostly female researchers, with dissertation supervisors who were mostly professors, while Turkish was the most used language and Istanbul Technical University was the institution where most of the dissertations were produced. The results coming out of this study will be helpful to the increase of research activities in the field of architecture in Turkey, to train researchers in universities in required fields, to direct scientific research in the right way and to contribute to the vision setting activities of universities.
