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Kastamonu University

In research, Kastamonu University stands highest in Social Sciences (#763 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#765 of 6,365 worldwide) and Arts and Humanities (#263 of 1,998 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Museology, Forestry and Religious studies — Museology is 20.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,194
of 28,054 · #4,402 all time
Rank in Türkiye
#41
of 308
Research works
6.4k
▲ 239% vs 2013–17
Citations
41k
6.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
78%
world 28%

What is Kastamonu 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 #763 of 10,521 13.8%1,384 #1542
Social SciencesField #765 of 6,365 14.9%614 #1407
Arts and HumanitiesField #263 of 1,998 15.0%376 #714
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #617 of 3,409 14.0%234 #848
Physical SciencesDomain #2,419 of 12,888 14.5%884 #4423
Business, Management and AccountingField #584 of 2,578 10.2%128 #1528
Health SciencesDomain #3,176 of 11,982 9.8%474 #6353
Environmental ScienceField #984 of 3,551 18.4%248 #1303
MedicineField #2,916 of 10,443 9.1%350 #7836
MuseologySubfield #10 of 34 12.1%78 #68

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kastamonu 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#1,542 #763
  2. Social Sciences#1,407 #765
  3. Arts and Humanities#714 #263
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#848 #617
  5. Physical Sciences#4,423 #2,419
  6. Business, Management and Accounting#1,528 #584
  7. Health Sciences#6,353 #3,176
  8. Environmental Science#1,303 #984
  9. Medicine#7,836 #2,916
  10. Museology#68 #10
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 Kastamonu University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Museology takes 20.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MuseologySubfield · 77.9 works20×
  2. ForestrySubfield · 32.3 works10×
  3. Religious studiesSubfield · 41.1 works7.9×
  4. PhilosophySubfield · 71.7 works5.4×
  5. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 77.3 works4.7×
  6. Arts and HumanitiesField · 375.5 works4.2×
← 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: 1.59× its world share, 234 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.47× its world share, 78 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.61× its world share, 19 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.50× its world share, 25 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.72× its world share, 8 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.29× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.82× its world share, 40 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.44× its world share, 107 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 22 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.82× its world share, 23 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.57× its world share, 266 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.61× its world share, 248 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.06× its world share, 115 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.86× its world share, 32 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.40× its world share, 28 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.31× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.12× its world share, 91 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.59× its world share, 350 worksMedicineNursing: 1.37× its world share, 21 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.60× its world share, 7 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.19× its world share, 376 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.28× its world share, 128 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.92× its world share, 28 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.89× its world share, 59 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.90× its world share, 180 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.56× its world share, 614 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Kastamonu University?

Ranked on the composite score, Mehmet Çetin, Hakan Şevik and Melike Kaplan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kastamonu University.

  1. 1 Mehmet Çetin · #111,489 worldwide 323 citations · 48 works
  2. 2 Hakan Şevik · #247,169 worldwide 191 citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Melike Kaplan · #553,623 worldwide 123 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Talip Çeter · #693,540 worldwide 42 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 Kadir Karatekin · #717,868 worldwide 22 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Adem Yavuz Sönmez · #771,571 worldwide 28 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Serkan Dilek · #796,328 worldwide 7 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Hasan Evrim Arıcı · #799,621 worldwide 90 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Fahri Maden · #814,874 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Fatma Kandemi̇rlı · #885,242 worldwide 65 citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at Kastamonu University

Which keywords describe research at Kastamonu University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Sufism, Ethnography, Education, Folklore, Mythology, Rituals 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. Cultural Heritage211▲ 12×17 topics
  2. Education137▲ 2.6×47 topics
  3. Climate Change134▲ 1.60×76 topics
  4. Sustainability132▲ 1.75×59 topics
  5. Mental Health103▲ 2.3×34 topics
  6. Teacher Training92▲ 4.8×15 topics
  7. Sufism90▲ 59×2 topics
  8. Qualitative Research86▲ 3.2×13 topics
  9. Ethnography85▲ 16×5 topics
  10. Folklore75▲ 46×2 topics
  11. Mythology75▲ 47×2 topics
  12. Rituals75▲ 28×3 topics
  13. Traditional Beliefs74▲ 71×1 topic
  14. Turkish Culture74▲ 71×1 topic
  15. Professional Development70▲ 11×10 topics
  16. Distance Education68▲ 11×4 topics
  17. Meta-Analysis67▲ 3.7×19 topics
  18. Student Perceptions66▲ 12×6 topics
  19. Learning65▲ 7.1×7 topics
  20. Teaching65▲ 17×4 topics
  21. Ottoman Empire64▲ 28×3 topics
  22. Covid-19 Pandemic61▲ 14×3 topics
  23. Metaphors60▲ 56×1 topic
  24. Teacher Perspectives60▲ 49×1 topic
  25. 21st Century Skills57▲ 6.2×4 topics
  26. Content Analysis55▲ 14×8 topics
  27. Educational Research55▲ 12×5 topics
  28. Divan Poetry53▲ 62×1 topic
  29. Turkish Literature53▲ 62×1 topic
  30. Psychological Functioning51▲ 19×2 topics
  31. Migration50▲ 4.8×10 topics
  32. Vegetation49▲ 15×4 topics
  33. Therapy47▲ 7.7×5 topics
  34. Language Teaching47▲ 6.0×6 topics
  35. Social Systems46▲ 26×2 topics
  36. Family Constellations46▲ 46×1 topic
  37. Genetic Processes46▲ 46×1 topic
  38. Bibliometric Analysis41▲ 24×2 topics
  39. Curriculum Evaluation40▲ 67×1 topic
  40. Reading Habits40▲ 37×1 topic

Which research topics does Kastamonu University publish most on?

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

Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies: 74 fractional worksEducation Practices and Challenges: 60 fractional worksTurkish Literature and C…53Turkish Literature and Culture: 53 fractional worksFamilies in Therapy and …46Families in Therapy and Culture: 46 fractional worksEducational Methods and Analysis: 40 fractional worksIslamic Thought and Society Studies: 37 fractional worksLinguistics and Cultural…34Linguistics and Cultural Studies: 34 fractional worksAgricultural and Rural Development Research: 30 fractional worksHistorical Turkish Studies: 27 fractional worksOttoman and Turkish Studies: 26 fractional works
MuseologyPhilosophyLiterature and Literary TheorySocial Psychology6 others

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

  1. 1 Cultural and Sociopolitical StudiesMuseology 74 works
  2. 2 Education Practices and ChallengesPhilosophy 60 works
  3. 3 Turkish Literature and CultureLiterature and Literary Theory 53 works
  4. 4 Families in Therapy and CultureSocial Psychology 46 works
  5. 5 Educational Methods and AnalysisEducation 40 works
  6. 6 Islamic Thought and Society StudiesReligious studies 37 works
  7. 7 Linguistics and Cultural StudiesLanguage and Linguistics 34 works
  8. 8 Agricultural and Rural Development ResearchForestry 30 works
  9. 9 Historical Turkish StudiesPolitical Science and International Relations 27 works
  10. 10 Ottoman and Turkish StudiesHistory 26 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 available78.2%not open21.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.2%domestic only91.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kastamonu University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 239% 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.