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Balıkesir University

In research, Balıkesir University stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,757 of 11,982 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,604 of 10,521 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#1,211 of 6,365 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Museology, Religious studies and Philosophy — Museology is 11.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,158
of 28,054 · #5,003 all time
Rank in Türkiye
#77
of 308
Research works
7.2k
▲ 77% vs 2013–17
Citations
97k
13.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
70%
world 28%

What is Balıkesir 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
Health SciencesDomain #1,757 of 11,982 7.3%588 #4005
Social SciencesDomain #1,604 of 10,521 15.7%1,034 #1992
Social SciencesField #1,211 of 6,365 18.9%452 #1596
Physical SciencesDomain #3,064 of 12,888 11.1%636 #4111
EducationSubfield #474 of 1,892 28.2%167 #711
Arts and HumanitiesField #655 of 1,998 19.0%227 #1039
MedicineField #3,751 of 10,443 6.3%476 #6080
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,288 of 3,409 9.5%160 #1893
Life SciencesDomain #3,948 of 7,800 7.2%310 #7029
EngineeringField #3,557 of 6,636 8.7%238 #4561

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Balıkesir 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. Health Sciences#4,005 #1,757
  2. Social Sciences#1,992 #1,604
  3. Social Sciences#1,596 #1,211
  4. Physical Sciences#4,111 #3,064
  5. Education#711 #474
  6. Arts and Humanities#1,039 #655
  7. Medicine#6,080 #3,751
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#1,893 #1,288
  9. Life Sciences#7,029 #3,948
  10. Engineering#4,561 #3,557
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 Balıkesir University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Museology takes 11.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MuseologySubfield · 36.6 works12×
  2. Religious studiesSubfield · 21.7 works5.1×
  3. PhilosophySubfield · 55.0 works5.0×
← 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: 1.32× its world share, 160 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.73× its world share, 100 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.77× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.57× its world share, 24 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.74× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.69× its world share, 6 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.63× its world share, 25 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 96 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.67× its world share, 16 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.62× its world share, 238 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.78× its world share, 99 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.69× its world share, 62 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.85× its world share, 56 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.39× its world share, 22 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.39× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.08× its world share, 73 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.96× its world share, 476 worksMedicineNursing: 1.64× its world share, 21 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.99× its world share, 14 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.07× its world share, 227 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.15× its world share, 96 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.45× its world share, 36 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.44× its world share, 79 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.84× its world share, 144 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.39× its world share, 452 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Balıkesir University?

Ranked on the composite score, Mehmet Doğan, İbrahim Küçükkoç and Nıhal Taş lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Balıkesir University.

  1. 1 Mehmet Doğan · #200,390 worldwide 164 citations · 51 works
  2. 2 İbrahim Küçükkoç · #342,563 worldwide 140 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Nıhal Taş · #359,210 worldwide 43 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 G. Tümen · #449,059 worldwide 121 citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Yavuz Ege · #468,732 worldwide 63 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Nilay Şahin · #525,774 worldwide 13 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Zuhal Oktay · #541,791 worldwide 108 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Necati Özdemir · #546,156 worldwide 116 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Erdoğan Tezci · #637,942 worldwide 40 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Nihal Yılmaz Özgür · #675,255 worldwide 43 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Balıkesir University

Which keywords describe research at Balıkesir University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Professional Development, Distance Education, Student Perceptions, Education, Teaching, Covid-19 Pandemic and Teacher Training.

▲ 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. Epidemiology111◆ 1.10×113 topics
  2. Cultural Heritage110▲ 7.8×20 topics
  3. Education100▲ 2.3×38 topics
  4. Sustainability86▲ 1.38×46 topics
  5. Mental Health75▲ 2.0×33 topics
  6. Qualitative Research71▲ 3.2×10 topics
  7. Teacher Training66▲ 4.1×16 topics
  8. Professional Development58▲ 11×7 topics
  9. Distance Education58▲ 11×5 topics
  10. Public Policy58▲ 4.6×7 topics
  11. Meta-Analysis56▲ 3.7×18 topics
  12. Student Perceptions54▲ 11×7 topics
  13. Learning51▲ 6.8×4 topics
  14. Teaching50▲ 16×3 topics
  15. Covid-19 Pandemic49▲ 14×2 topics
  16. Economic Growth48▲ 2.2×20 topics
  17. Metaphors48▲ 55×1 topic
  18. Teacher Perspectives48▲ 48×1 topic
  19. Sufism45▲ 35×2 topics
  20. 21st Century Skills44▲ 5.7×5 topics
  21. Ottoman Empire42▲ 22×3 topics
  22. Content Analysis41▲ 13×7 topics
  23. Educational Research41▲ 11×3 topics
  24. Student Engagement41▲ 4.0×13 topics
  25. Ethnography40▲ 9.1×4 topics
  26. Language Teaching38▲ 5.9×4 topics
  27. Folklore33▲ 25×2 topics
  28. Rituals33▲ 15×2 topics
  29. Bibliometric Analysis33▲ 24×2 topics
  30. Traditional Beliefs33▲ 38×1 topic
  31. Turkish Culture33▲ 38×1 topic
  32. Curriculum Evaluation32▲ 64×1 topic
  33. Reading Habits32▲ 35×1 topic
  34. Quarantine32▲ 7.7×2 topics
  35. Morphology28▲ 6.4×9 topics
  36. Psychological Functioning27▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Social Systems26▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Divan Poetry26▲ 36×1 topic
  39. Turkish Literature26▲ 36×1 topic
  40. Family Constellations25▲ 31×1 topic

Which research topics does Balıkesir University publish most on?

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

Education Practices and Challenges: 48 fractional worksCultural and Sociopolitical Studies: 33 fractional worksEducational Methods and …32Educational Methods and Analysis: 32 fractional worksTurkish Literature and C…26Turkish Literature and Culture: 26 fractional worksFamilies in Therapy and Culture: 25 fractional worksOttoman and Turkish Studies: 22 fractional worksIslamic Thought and Soci…19Islamic Thought and Society Studies: 19 fractional worksTurkish Urban and Social Issues: 18 fractional worksLinguistics and Cultural Studies: 17 fractional worksPublic Administration and Governance: 16 fractional works
PhilosophyMuseologyEducationLiterature and Literary Theory6 others

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

  1. 1 Education Practices and Challenges Philosophy 48 works
  2. 2 Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies Museology 33 works
  3. 3 Educational Methods and Analysis Education 32 works
  4. 4 Turkish Literature and Culture Literature and Literary Theory 26 works
  5. 5 Families in Therapy and Culture Social Psychology 25 works
  6. 6 Ottoman and Turkish Studies History 22 works
  7. 7 Islamic Thought and Society Studies Religious studies 19 works
  8. 8 Turkish Urban and Social Issues Urban Studies 18 works
  9. 9 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Language and Linguistics 17 works
  10. 10 Public Administration and Governance Political Science and International Relations 16 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 available70.1%not open29.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.3%domestic only90.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Balıkesir University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 77% higher than in 2013–2017.

200020102020
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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.