The Western esoteric tradition (alchemy, Hermeticism, gnosticism, the Knights Templar…) is a lively field of international scholarship. But how accessible are its primary sources in Turkish, and how much Turkish-language research exists around them? The Gap Atlas makes this measurable by scanning publication density in the OpenAIRE Graph — and shows where Kadim Kütüphane's 844-source translation catalogue stands inside that gap.
Measured via keyword scans of OpenAIRE's public API (as of 2026-08-16). Bar length shows total publication count; the badge shows the Turkish-language share.
Of Kadim Kütüphane's 844 translations, the 20 with the densest research trace in the OpenAIRE Graph — the works international academia studies most, now directly readable in Turkish. Overall, 534 of the 844 works (63%) leave at least one trace in the Graph; 310 (37%) leave none.
Kadim Kütüphane's translations are deposited on Zenodo as DOI-bearing records (CC BY-SA 4.0) — and those records flow into the OpenAIRE Graph over time. So this tool does not merely measure the gap; the library's own translations become part of the very graph being measured. There are currently 7 DOI-bearing records live, with more on the way.
For each of the 844 works we built a disambiguated OpenAIRE keywords query identifying
the work or author unambiguously (never the raw Turkish page slug — naive queries either go
silent or collide with unrelated namesakes), measured how many publications the public Graph API
returns, and combined that with the cluster-level heat map above. Gap score formula:
gap_score(work, language) = graph_density(work) × (1 − accessibility(work, language)).
All scripts and the full dataset are CC-BY.
api.openaire.eu/search/publications); this page makes no live API calls.
Measurement scripts and the full dataset are open under CC-BY:
github.com/SiraU/bosluk-atlasi.
Turkish version of this page: /bosluk-atlasi.