The development of a field of science can be associated with the cumulative character of science. Scientific knowledge in a field; methodological diversity allows to show the dominance of the literature, disciplinary boundaries and the relations it has established with the sub-branches of science and other disciplines. Interpersonal Communication is a branch of science in the Department of Public Relations. Interpersonal communication, which is taught as a course at undergraduate level in our country, also provides graduates at universities as a graduate level program as a department. The focus of this study is to what extent interpersonal communication as a discipline can be separated from other fields in the field of communication, how much it can draw its own boundaries, what the concepts and problematics of the field are, in other words, how and how interpersonal communication can exist in our country as a disciplinary branch of science. forms the point. In this context, it is important to examine the works produced academically and to see how these works are fed from the literature historically and currently. For this purpose, citation analysis of academic works produced in the field of interpersonal communication is carried out in this study. The universe of the research consists of 64 articles in total, whose keyword is interpersonal communication, published in the journals of Dergipark. The articles subject to the research were transferred to the MAXQDA 2022 package program and analyzed. As a result of the research, it was understood that the articles written in the field of interpersonal communication were mostly fed from the field of communication (n=408) and their own internal dynamics (n=407). In addition, the level of nutrition (n=894) from the international literature in the field of interpersonal communication is 45.19%. The use of public relations (n=47) literature in the field of interpersonal communication is seen to be limited (2.38%).