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Evaluation of Studies on Health Tourism in Türkiye with AHP-TOPSIS Methods

Türkiye'de Sağlık Turizmi ile İlgili Çalışmaların AHP-TOPSIS Yöntemleri ile Değerlendirilmesi

Murat Suat Arsav(ERCİYES ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN BİLİMLERİ ENSTİTÜSÜ)0000-0003-0087-7956
Nur Cavdaroglu(Northumbria University)0000-0003-1240-1357
Ercan Şenyiğit(ERCİYES ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0002-9388-2633
Pages
1–19
Publication Date
2025-07-01
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Thus, the publications that would primarily be of interest to the researchers aiming to work in the field of health tourism in Türkiye have been put forward with a scientific method.

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Objective & Hypothesis:The importance and extent of health tourism are increasing day by day globally.
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Key Findings & Data:In the first part of this paper, the studies in the field of health tourism in Türkiye between 2007 and 2022 are examined and categorized providing a comprehensive guide for researchers about the subfields emerging in the area.
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⚙️Variables:Sağlık turizmi · Medikal turizm · Çok kriterli karar verme

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The importance and extent of health tourism are increasing day by day globally. This sector provides an important source of income particularly for developing countries, making a serious contribution to the country’s promotion and revitalization of other sectors. Although health tourism has emerged as a major sector in Türkiye in recent years, the existing literature in this field is far from complete. This paper aims to discuss and analyse relevant publications regarding the health tourism sector in Türkiye via the use of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. In the first part of this paper, the studies in the field of health tourism in Türkiye between 2007 and 2022 are examined and categorized providing a comprehensive guide for researchers about the subfields emerging in the area. In the second part of the article, the publications examined in the first part are evaluated by using MCDM techniques according to five criteria. These are the weight of the quartiles range, the index the journal was scanned, the publication year, the use of data and whether it was an application article or not, and the content. The weights of these five criteria are calculated by the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Afterwards, the articles are sorted by using the Technique for Order Preference Similarity to Ideal Solutions (TOPSIS). The listed articles are divided into groups A, B, and C, ranging from the most impactful to the least. Thus, the publications that would primarily be of interest to the researchers aiming to work in the field of health tourism in Türkiye have been put forward with a scientific method.

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Sağlık turizminin önemi ve kapsamı küresel olarak her geçen gün artmaktadır. Özellikle gelişmekte olan ülkeler için önemli bir gelir kaynağı olan bu sektör, ülkenin tanıtımına ve diğer sektörlerin canlanmasına ciddi katkı sağlamaktadır. Sağlık turizmi Türkiye'de son yıllarda önemli bir sektör olarak ortaya çıkmasına rağmen, bu alandaki literatür eksiktir. Bu çalışma, çok kriterli karar verme (ÇKKV) tekniklerini kullanarak Türkiye'deki sağlık turizmi sektörüne ilişkin ilgili yayınları tartışmayı ve analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu makalenin ilk bölümünde, Türkiye'de sağlık turizmi alanında 2007 ve 2022 yılları arasında yapılan çalışmalar incelenmiş ve kategorize edilerek araştırmacılara alanda ortaya çıkan alt alanlar hakkında kapsamlı bir rehber sunulmuştur. Makalenin ikinci bölümünde, ilk bölümde incelenen yayınlar ÇKKV teknikleri kullanılarak beş kritere göre değerlendirilmiştir. Bunlar çeyrekler aralığının ağırlığı, derginin tarandığı indeks, yayın yılı, veri kullanımı ve uygulama makalesi olup olmadığı ve içeriktir. Bu beş kriterin ağırlıkları Analitik Hiyerarşi Süreci (AHP) yöntemi ile hesaplanmıştır. Daha sonra, makaleler İdeal Çözümlere Tercih Benzerliği Sıralama Tekniği (TOPSIS) kullanılarak sıralanmıştır. Listelenen makaleler en etkili olandan en az etkili olana doğru A, B ve C gruplarına ayrılmıştır. Böylece Türkiye'de sağlık turizmi alanında çalışmayı hedefleyen araştırmacıların öncelikli olarak ilgisini çekecek yayınlar bilimsel bir yöntemle ortaya konulmuştur.

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Arsav, M. S., Cavdaroglu, N., Şenyiğit, E. (2025). Evaluation of Studies on Health Tourism in Türkiye with AHP-TOPSIS Methods. İleri Mühendislik Çalışmaları ve Teknolojileri Dergisi, Cilt: 5 Sayı: 1, 1–19. https://ajindex.com/articles/1500056

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