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Mersin Üniversitesi

In research, Mersin Üniversitesi stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,103 of 11,982 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,109 of 10,521 worldwide) and Medicine (#1,568 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Museology and Philosophy — Museology is 7.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,978
of 28,054 · #3,630 all time
Rank in Türkiye
#32
of 308
Research works
11k
▲ 93% vs 2013–17
Citations
123k
11.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
59%
world 28%

What is Mersin Üniversitesi 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 #1,103 of 11,982 9.2%1,005 #2979
Social SciencesDomain #1,109 of 10,521 16.6%1,157 #2040
MedicineField #1,568 of 10,443 8.3%827 #3673
Physical SciencesDomain #1,944 of 12,888 16.3%914 #2835
Social SciencesField #1,160 of 6,365 18.0%500 #1673
Arts and HumanitiesField #428 of 1,998 20.4%238 #1186
EducationSubfield #466 of 1,892 25.7%165 #885
EngineeringField #2,408 of 6,636 15.6%273 #2337
Environmental ScienceField #1,291 of 3,551 21.4%152 #2066
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,298 of 3,409 14.3%134 #2120

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Mersin Üniversitesi 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#2,979 #1,103
  2. Social Sciences#2,040 #1,109
  3. Medicine#3,673 #1,568
  4. Physical Sciences#2,835 #1,944
  5. Social Sciences#1,673 #1,160
  6. Arts and Humanities#1,186 #428
  7. Education#885 #466
  8. Engineering#2,337 #2,408
  9. Environmental Science#2,066 #1,291
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#2,120 #1,298
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 Mersin Üniversitesi specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Museology takes 7.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MuseologySubfield · 32.7 works7.8×
  2. PhilosophySubfield · 58.5 works4.0×
← 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: 0.82× its world share, 134 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.70× its world share, 127 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.69× its world share, 24 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.65× its world share, 36 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.06× its world share, 13 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.43× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.34× its world share, 72 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.43× its world share, 114 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.87× its world share, 46 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.85× its world share, 27 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.53× its world share, 272 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.90× its world share, 152 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.83× its world share, 99 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.92× its world share, 77 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.65× its world share, 49 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.78× its world share, 46 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.20× its world share, 108 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.26× its world share, 826 worksMedicineNursing: 1.39× its world share, 23 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.42× its world share, 238 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.02× its world share, 112 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.24× its world share, 41 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.02× its world share, 75 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.85× its world share, 192 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.16× its world share, 500 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 2.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Mersin Üniversitesi?

Ranked on the composite score, Ahmet Çelik, Selahíttín Çayan and Erdem Akbay lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mersin Üniversitesi.

  1. 1 Ahmet Çelik Türkiye · #12,568 worldwide 613 citations · 52 works
  2. 2 Selahíttín Çayan Türkiye · #132,730 worldwide 123 citations · 44 works
  3. 3 Erdem Akbay Türkiye · #218,179 worldwide 66 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 Arzu Kanık Türkiye · #237,973 worldwide 100 citations · 34 works
  5. 5 Kemal Birdir Türkiye · #368,196 worldwide 63 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Murat Bozlu Türkiye · #371,251 worldwide 52 citations · 27 works
  7. 7 Gülden Ersöz Türkiye · #415,803 worldwide 36 citations · 26 works
  8. 8 Ayda Çelebioğlu Türkiye · #422,751 worldwide 34 citations · 22 works
  9. 9 Ümit Türsen Türkiye · #458,500 worldwide 56 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Hakan Aytan Türkiye · #464,205 worldwide 27 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at Mersin Üniversitesi

Which keywords describe research at Mersin Üniversitesi?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology177▲ 1.31×123 topics
  2. Mental Health119▲ 2.4×37 topics
  3. Education109▲ 1.87×49 topics
  4. Cultural Heritage108▲ 5.8×14 topics
  5. Inflammation81◆ 1.14×78 topics
  6. Quality of Life76▲ 1.55×53 topics
  7. Teacher Training72▲ 3.4×14 topics
  8. Qualitative Research71▲ 2.4×15 topics
  9. Treatment69▲ 1.67×49 topics
  10. Meta-Analysis65▲ 3.2×19 topics
  11. Distance Education64▲ 9.1×4 topics
  12. Social Media62▲ 1.28×25 topics
  13. Student Perceptions61▲ 9.8×6 topics
  14. Professional Development61▲ 9.1×9 topics
  15. Learning59▲ 5.9×8 topics
  16. Teaching56▲ 13×4 topics
  17. Public Policy54▲ 3.2×9 topics
  18. Covid-19 Pandemic52▲ 11×3 topics
  19. Metaphors52▲ 44×1 topic
  20. Teacher Perspectives52▲ 38×1 topic
  21. Depression51▲ 1.70×20 topics
  22. Well-being49▲ 3.8×12 topics
  23. Job Satisfaction46▲ 3.1×11 topics
  24. 21st Century Skills44▲ 4.4×5 topics
  25. Ottoman Empire42▲ 17×3 topics
  26. Language Teaching40▲ 4.6×5 topics
  27. Content Analysis40▲ 9.3×6 topics
  28. Quarantine39▲ 7.2×2 topics
  29. Educational Research39▲ 7.8×5 topics
  30. Ethnography34▲ 5.7×4 topics
  31. Bibliometric Analysis33▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Curriculum Evaluation33▲ 49×1 topic
  33. Reading Habits33▲ 27×1 topic
  34. Sufism33▲ 19×2 topics
  35. Rituals32▲ 11×3 topics
  36. Folklore31▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Mythology31▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Traditional Beliefs31▲ 27×1 topic
  39. Turkish Culture31▲ 27×1 topic
  40. Medical History24▲ 19×3 topics

Which research topics does Mersin Üniversitesi publish most on?

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

Education Practices and …52Education Practices and Challenges: 52 fractional worksEducational Methods and Analysis: 33 fractional worksCultural and Sociopoliti…31Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies: 31 fractional worksOttoman and Turkish Stud…23Ottoman and Turkish Studies: 23 fractional worksTurkish Literature and Culture: 20 fractional worksFamilies in Therapy and Culture: 17 fractional worksLinguistics and Cultural…17Linguistics and Cultural Studies: 17 fractional worksPublic Administration and Governance: 17 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health: 16 fractional worksHistorical Turkish Studies: 15 fractional works
PhilosophyEducationMuseologyHistory5 others

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

  1. 1 Education Practices and Challenges Philosophy 52 works
  2. 2 Educational Methods and Analysis Education 33 works
  3. 3 Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies Museology 31 works
  4. 4 Ottoman and Turkish Studies History 23 works
  5. 5 Turkish Literature and Culture Literature and Literary Theory 20 works
  6. 6 Families in Therapy and Culture Social Psychology 17 works
  7. 7 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Language and Linguistics 17 works
  8. 8 Public Administration and Governance Political Science and International Relations 17 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 16 works
  10. 10 Historical Turkish Studies Political Science and International Relations 15 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 available58.8%not open41.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.8%domestic only80.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Mersin Üniversitesi's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 93% 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.

Other research institutions in Mersin

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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.