Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) rose 25 places in the 2022-2023 Türkiye ranking announced by the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) Research Laboratory, established within the Informatics Institute of METU to develop scientific methods for evaluating higher education institutions according to their academic achievements and to share the results of its studies with the public, and was included among the “top 5 fastest-rising universities”.
“A REFLECTION OF OUR ACADEMICS’ SCIENTIFIC WORK”
Stating that ranking systems give universities information about their own position and development within the higher education ecosystem and an opportunity to review their education and research policies, Hasan Kalyoncu University Rector Prof. Dr. Türkay Dereli said: “It is extremely gratifying that Hasan Kalyoncu University, a young and dynamic foundation higher education institution that has attracted attention with its student-centred education and teaching approach since the day it was founded, as well as its scientific productivity and innovative application-oriented projects, is rising day by day in respected ranking lists. The scientific publications that our academics produced in respected international journals last year increased by approximately 50% compared with the previous year, and the citations they received increased by 100%. Significant increases were also achieved in other relevant indicators. If this upward momentum can be increased, it will be possible for our university to rise even further in respected rankings. For this reason, we will continue to support our scientists’ projects even more. The fact that our university rose 25 places compared with last year in the URAP 2022-2023 Türkiye ranking, with a score of 585.99, actually means that the scientific work and achievements of our researchers are reflected in the rankings, manifested and officially recognised. I congratulate all our faculty members and researchers, whose high-quality scientific work enabled our university to rise 25 places in the URAP Türkiye 2022-2023 ranking and to be among the top 15 foundation universities, and I wish them continued success”, he said.
URAP HAS BEEN RANKING UNIVERSITIES SINCE 2009
Drawing on international sources such as Web of Science/InCites and data published by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), URAP has ranked universities in Türkiye according to their academic performance every year since 2009, using the indicators of number of articles, number of articles per faculty member, number of citations, number of citations per faculty member, total number of scientific documents, total number of scientific documents per faculty member, number of doctoral graduates, ratio of the number of doctoral students to the total number of students, number of students per faculty member, number of international co-authored articles, number of international co-authored articles per faculty member, number of domestic co-authored articles, number of domestic co-authored articles per faculty member, number of projects received from TÜBİTAK and number of projects received from TÜBİTAK per faculty member, together with the article score, citation score, scientific document score, “faculty member/student” score, international collaboration score, domestic collaboration score and TÜBİTAK project score calculated for each university. URAP’s rankings can be accessed at https://newtr.urapcenter.org/.
News: Çetin KARABIYIK /HKU
