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Erciyes University

In research, Erciyes University stands highest in Social Sciences (#814 of 10,521 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,324 of 12,888 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#1,386 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Museology, Orthodontics and Oral Surgery — Museology is 7.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,389
of 28,054 · #1,208 all time
Rank in Türkiye
#10
of 308
Research works
17k
▲ 35% vs 2013–17
Citations
302k
17.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
47%
world 28%

What is Erciyes 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 #814 of 10,521 18.7%925 #1507
Physical SciencesDomain #1,324 of 12,888 18.4%1,290 #834
Health SciencesDomain #1,386 of 11,982 10.3%1,299 #1926
Social SciencesField #942 of 6,365 18.2%376 #1906
Arts and HumanitiesField #356 of 1,998 16.3%246 #939
EngineeringField #1,264 of 6,636 17.7%493 #799
MedicineField #2,069 of 10,443 9.4%1,035 #2034
Life SciencesDomain #1,812 of 7,800 13.9%781 #3055
Health ProfessionsField #521 of 1,928 16.5%99 #1048
EducationSubfield #524 of 1,892 24.5%127 #913

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Erciyes 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#1,507 #814
  2. Physical Sciences#834 #1,324
  3. Health Sciences#1,926 #1,386
  4. Social Sciences#1,906 #942
  5. Arts and Humanities#939 #356
  6. Engineering#799 #1,264
  7. Medicine#2,034 #2,069
  8. Life Sciences#3,055 #1,812
  9. Health Professions#1,048 #521
  10. Education#913 #524
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 Erciyes University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Museology takes 7.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MuseologySubfield · 39.7 works7.5×
  2. OrthodonticsSubfield · 35.1 works7.3×
  3. Oral SurgerySubfield · 47.9 works5.8×
  4. Analytical ChemistrySubfield · 45.8 works5.5×
  5. DentistryField · 103.0 works4.9×
← 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: 1.70× its world share, 348 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.25× its world share, 286 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.26× its world share, 54 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.00× its world share, 70 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.48× its world share, 22 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.20× its world share, 18 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.86× its world share, 125 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 159 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 11 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.00× its world share, 40 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.77× its world share, 493 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.71× its world share, 152 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.16× its world share, 174 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.98× its world share, 49 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.71× its world share, 68 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 4.94× its world share, 103 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.87× its world share, 99 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.25× its world share, 1,035 worksMedicineNursing: 2.22× its world share, 47 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.62× its world share, 15 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.98× its world share, 246 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.36× its world share, 50 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.65× its world share, 27 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.77× its world share, 71 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.19× its world share, 156 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.69× its world share, 376 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Erciyes University?

Ranked on the composite score, Derviş Karaboğa, Cengiz Duran Atiş and Aliye Esmaoğlu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Erciyes University.

  1. 1 Derviş Karaboğa Türkiye · #68,984 worldwide 475 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Cengiz Duran Atiş Türkiye · #101,484 worldwide 397 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Aliye Esmaoğlu Türkiye · #124,232 worldwide 91 citations · 27 works
  4. 4 Halil Kırnak Türkiye · #142,594 worldwide 108 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Demet Ünalan Türkiye · #147,371 worldwide 146 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Ahmet Okay Çağlayan Türkiye · #153,672 worldwide 112 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Adem Boyacı Türkiye · #155,439 worldwide 75 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Mükerrem Betül Yerer Türkiye · #168,289 worldwide 185 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Emine Alp Türkiye · #192,407 worldwide 117 citations · 45 works
  10. 10 Sibel Sılıcı Türkiye · #201,408 worldwide 109 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Erciyes University

Which keywords describe research at Erciyes University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Epidemiology, Inflammation, Sufism, Quality of Life, Oxidative Stress, Antioxidant and Meta-Analysis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology226▲ 1.33×126 topics
  2. Inflammation152▲ 1.70×82 topics
  3. Cultural Heritage114▲ 4.8×16 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress112▲ 1.59×61 topics
  5. Quality of Life109▲ 1.76×50 topics
  6. Environmental Impact102▲ 1.39×38 topics
  7. Mental Health92▲ 1.47×35 topics
  8. Nanoparticles85▲ 1.58×38 topics
  9. Education85◆ 1.15×48 topics
  10. Cancer83▲ 1.44×54 topics
  11. Antioxidant80▲ 2.7×48 topics
  12. Meta-Analysis75▲ 3.0×19 topics
  13. Biomedical Applications75▲ 1.47×32 topics
  14. Antioxidant Activity58▲ 2.1×30 topics
  15. Sufism57▲ 27×2 topics
  16. Antioxidants51▲ 2.7×16 topics
  17. Distance Education48▲ 5.4×4 topics
  18. Professional Development46▲ 5.3×5 topics
  19. Ethnography45▲ 6.0×5 topics
  20. Learning44▲ 3.4×6 topics
  21. Student Perceptions42▲ 5.3×5 topics
  22. Teaching41▲ 7.8×3 topics
  23. Phenolic Compounds40▲ 5.0×9 topics
  24. Covid-19 Pandemic39▲ 6.7×2 topics
  25. Metaphors39▲ 26×1 topic
  26. Teacher Perspectives39▲ 23×1 topic
  27. Rituals38▲ 10×3 topics
  28. Storytelling38▲ 18×3 topics
  29. Mythology37▲ 17×3 topics
  30. Folklore37▲ 16×2 topics
  31. Traditional Beliefs37▲ 26×1 topic
  32. Turkish Culture37▲ 26×1 topic
  33. Content Analysis33▲ 6.2×5 topics
  34. Divan Poetry31▲ 26×1 topic
  35. Psychological Functioning31▲ 8.4×2 topics
  36. Turkish Literature31▲ 26×1 topic
  37. Biosensing29▲ 7.7×2 topics
  38. Family Constellations28▲ 21×1 topic
  39. Genetic Processes28▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Social Systems28▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Erciyes University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Education Practices and Challenges, Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies, Turkish Literature and Culture and Families in Therapy and Culture.

Education Practices and …39Education Practices and Challenges: 39 fractional worksCultural and Sociopoliti…37Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies: 37 fractional worksTurkish Literature and C…31Turkish Literature and Culture: 31 fractional worksFamilies in Therapy and …28Families in Therapy and Culture: 28 fractional worksEducational Methods and Analysis: 27 fractional worksIslamic Thought and Society Studies: 26 fractional worksAnalytical chemistry met…23Analytical chemistry methods development: 23 fractional worksLinguistics and Cultural…21Linguistics and Cultural Studies: 21 fractional worksDental materials and res…17Dental materials and restorations: 17 fractional worksTheoretical and Computat…16Theoretical and Computational Physics: 16 fractional works
PhilosophyMuseologyLiterature and Literary TheorySocial Psychology6 others

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

  1. 1 Education Practices and Challenges Philosophy 39 works
  2. 2 Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies Museology 37 works
  3. 3 Turkish Literature and Culture Literature and Literary Theory 31 works
  4. 4 Families in Therapy and Culture Social Psychology 28 works
  5. 5 Educational Methods and Analysis Education 27 works
  6. 6 Islamic Thought and Society Studies Religious studies 26 works
  7. 7 Analytical chemistry methods development Analytical Chemistry 23 works
  8. 8 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Language and Linguistics 21 works
  9. 9 Dental materials and restorations Orthodontics 17 works
  10. 10 Theoretical and Computational Physics Condensed Matter Physics 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 available46.8%not open53.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.3%domestic only88.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Erciyes University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.

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