@article{article_1062183, title={A Retrospective Study: Bibliometric Analysis of the Museum Architecture Literature Between 1980 and 2020}, journal={Kütüphane Arşiv ve Müze Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={3}, pages={27–43}, year={2022}, DOI={10.29228/lamre.54973}, author={Doğruer, Fatma Sezin}, keywords={Müze Mimarisi, Müzecilik, Müze Tasarımı, Bibliyometri}, abstract={Museums are buildings or complexes that exhibit, protect and investigate the artifacts in the service of community by their sociocultural, aesthetic, economic and educational functions. This bibliometric analysis on museum architecture comprehends 135 publications written by 200 authors from 28 countries, where architecture, art, humanities multidisciplinary, education, educational research and social sciences interdisciplinary are the main fields of the research in the Web of Science database. A bibliometric analysis tool called VOSviewer was used while analyzing the data gathered by webometrics. USA produced 13.33 % of the world’s publications on ‘museum architecture’, which is the first country with the highest number of publications with 18 documents. The most used keywords in the literature are ‘museum’, ‘architecture’ and ‘art’. This study was the first bibliometric analysis that ensures statistical and holistic information on museum architecture literature, which was applied on indexes in Web of Science Core Collection between 1980 and 2020. It is aimed to encourage scholars to carry out further studies on museum architecture.}, number={1}, publisher={İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi}