The study aimed to uncover the general trends of published researches undertaken in the field of Social Studies Education. To this end, SSCI, SCI-EXPANDED, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, and ESCI indexed journals were scanned through the Web of Science database. In the study, 55 articles which were suitable for scope of the research, and published between the years of 2016 to 2019 with an address in Turkey were accessed, classified, and included in the study. In the analysis of the data, content analysis method and descriptive statistics such as percentage and frequency were utilized. In the content analysis various variables were considered, such as author(s), year of the research, purpose of the study, results, research methods, sampling methods, and data collection tools. The results revealed that the majority of researches used the qualitative research method, the number of articles published was the highest in 2019, the most commonly used data collection tool was the interview, the samples included secondary school students at most, and the studies were clustered in a sample range of 31-100 participants.