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Aksaray University

In research, Aksaray University stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,175 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#938 of 6,365 worldwide) and Education (#397 of 1,892 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Museology, Religious studies and Philosophy — Museology is 14.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,004
of 28,054 · #4,978 all time
Rank in Türkiye
#69
of 308
Research works
6.1k
▲ 143% vs 2013–17
Citations
52k
8.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
70%
world 28%

What is Aksaray University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #1,175 of 10,521 18.1%1,137 #2144
Social SciencesField #938 of 6,365 19.9%487 #1748
EducationSubfield #397 of 1,892 28.4%186 #732
Physical SciencesDomain #2,939 of 12,888 13.0%713 #3935
Arts and HumanitiesField #509 of 1,998 19.9%277 #1133
Health SciencesDomain #3,183 of 11,982 11.9%425 #5722
MedicineField #3,058 of 10,443 10.0%332 #6171
Environmental ScienceField #1,459 of 3,551 18.1%134 #2480
PhilosophySubfield #122 of 290 30.8%66 #389
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,168 of 2,578 14.7%91 #2445

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Aksaray University sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#2,144 #1,175
  2. Social Sciences#1,748 #938
  3. Education#732 #397
  4. Physical Sciences#3,935 #2,939
  5. Arts and Humanities#1,133 #509
  6. Health Sciences#5,722 #3,183
  7. Medicine#6,171 #3,058
  8. Environmental Science#2,480 #1,459
  9. Philosophy#389 #122
  10. Business, Management and Accounting#2,445 #1,168
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Aksaray University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Museology takes 14.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MuseologySubfield · 45.3 works14×
  2. Religious studiesSubfield · 29.4 works6.8×
  3. PhilosophySubfield · 66.3 works6.0×
  4. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 59.9 works4.4×
  5. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 23.3 works4.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1.31× its world share, 160 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.60× its world share, 82 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.89× its world share, 23 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.44× its world share, 18 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.05× its world share, 10 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.03× its world share, 41 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.46× its world share, 92 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 32 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.90× its world share, 21 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.63× its world share, 241 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.05× its world share, 134 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.70× its world share, 63 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.78× its world share, 54 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.57× its world share, 32 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.49× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.82× its world share, 55 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.67× its world share, 332 worksMedicineNursing: 1.81× its world share, 23 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.59× its world share, 9 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.74× its world share, 277 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.11× its world share, 92 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.48× its world share, 37 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.42× its world share, 78 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.13× its world share, 167 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.50× its world share, 487 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Aksaray University?

Ranked on the composite score, Faruk Şen, Murat Kaya and E. Deligöz lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Aksaray University.

  1. 1 Faruk Şen Türkiye · #238,183 worldwide 84 citations · 41 works
  2. 2 Murat Kaya Türkiye · #246,105 worldwide 136 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 E. Deligöz Türkiye · #388,318 worldwide 169 citations · 34 works
  4. 4 Pürhan Barbaros Tuncer Türkiye · #398,937 worldwide 72 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Refik Turan Türkiye · #658,275 worldwide 12 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Mehmet Şahin Türkiye · #771,954 worldwide 1 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Hüseyin Ünlü Türkiye · #849,168 worldwide 16 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Berkant Kayan Türkiye · #920,708 worldwide 77 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Gürol Yıldırım Türkiye · #933,331 worldwide 58 citations · 26 works
  10. 10 Sinan İnci Türkiye · #945,867 worldwide 26 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Aksaray University

Which keywords describe research at Aksaray University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Professional Development, Student Perceptions, Distance Education, Sufism, Education, Learning and Teaching.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Cultural Heritage156▲ 11×14 topics
  2. Education115▲ 2.6×41 topics
  3. Mental Health99▲ 2.6×32 topics
  4. Qualitative Research78▲ 3.5×9 topics
  5. Teacher Training74▲ 4.6×12 topics
  6. Professional Development73▲ 14×9 topics
  7. Meta-Analysis70▲ 4.7×18 topics
  8. Student Perceptions70▲ 15×6 topics
  9. Distance Education69▲ 13×3 topics
  10. Sufism67▲ 53×2 topics
  11. Learning61▲ 8.0×3 topics
  12. Teaching61▲ 19×2 topics
  13. Covid-19 Pandemic58▲ 17×1 topic
  14. Metaphors58▲ 66×1 topic
  15. 21st Century Skills58▲ 7.6×5 topics
  16. Content Analysis54▲ 17×7 topics
  17. Educational Research53▲ 14×5 topics
  18. Language Teaching53▲ 8.1×7 topics
  19. Ottoman Empire52▲ 28×3 topics
  20. Ethnography51▲ 11×6 topics
  21. Culture45▲ 3.3×9 topics
  22. Storytelling45▲ 36×2 topics
  23. Rituals44▲ 20×2 topics
  24. Folklore44▲ 32×1 topic
  25. Turkish Culture44▲ 51×1 topic
  26. Bibliometric Analysis43▲ 31×3 topics
  27. Psychological Functioning42▲ 19×2 topics
  28. Reading Habits42▲ 46×2 topics
  29. Curriculum Evaluation42▲ 83×1 topic
  30. Skill Measurement42▲ 83×1 topic
  31. Therapy41▲ 8.1×5 topics
  32. Social Systems41▲ 28×2 topics
  33. Family Constellations40▲ 50×1 topic
  34. Genetic Processes40▲ 50×1 topic
  35. Divan Poetry39▲ 55×1 topic
  36. Turkish Literature39▲ 55×1 topic
  37. Quarantine29▲ 7.1×2 topics
  38. Theology29▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Islamic Studies28▲ 37×1 topic
  40. Religious Language28▲ 51×1 topic

Which research topics does Aksaray University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Education Practices and Challenges, Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies, Educational Methods and Analysis and Families in Therapy and Culture.

Education Practices and Challenges: 58 fractional worksCultural and Sociopolitical Studies: 44 fractional worksEducational Methods and …42Educational Methods and Analysis: 42 fractional worksFamilies in Therapy and …40Families in Therapy and Culture: 40 fractional worksTurkish Literature and Culture: 39 fractional worksIslamic Thought and Society Studies: 28 fractional worksHistorical Turkish Studies22Historical Turkish Studies: 22 fractional worksOttoman and Turkish Studies: 21 fractional worksLinguistics and Cultural Studies: 18 fractional worksAdsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal: 13 fractional works
PhilosophyMuseologyEducationSocial Psychology6 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Education Practices and Challenges Philosophy 58 works
  2. 2 Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies Museology 44 works
  3. 3 Educational Methods and Analysis Education 42 works
  4. 4 Families in Therapy and Culture Social Psychology 40 works
  5. 5 Turkish Literature and Culture Literature and Literary Theory 39 works
  6. 6 Islamic Thought and Society Studies Religious studies 28 works
  7. 7 Historical Turkish Studies Political Science and International Relations 22 works
  8. 8 Ottoman and Turkish Studies History 21 works
  9. 9 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Language and Linguistics 18 works
  10. 10 Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal Water Science and Technology 13 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available70.4%not open29.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.6%domestic only93.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Aksaray University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 143% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.