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Mustafa Kemal University

In research, Mustafa Kemal University stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,253 of 10,521 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,437 of 11,982 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#928 of 6,365 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Museology, Forestry and Philosophy — Museology is 14.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,732
of 28,054 · #4,386 all time
Rank in Türkiye
#59
of 308
Research works
6.9k
▲ 67% vs 2013–17
Citations
84k
12.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
64%
world 28%

What is Mustafa Kemal 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 #1,253 of 10,521 18.9%846 #1923
Health SciencesDomain #1,437 of 11,982 7.7%612 #3404
Social SciencesField #928 of 6,365 21.2%403 #1836
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #577 of 3,409 10.1%328 #1171
MedicineField #2,453 of 10,443 7.0%465 #4542
Life SciencesDomain #2,286 of 7,800 9.4%498 #4034
EducationSubfield #668 of 1,892 27.5%140 #1168
Arts and HumanitiesField #742 of 1,998 16.4%234 #1290
Physical SciencesDomain #5,618 of 12,888 10.1%316 #4796
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,282 of 2,578 18.7%100 #2168

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Mustafa Kemal 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#1,923 #1,253
  2. Health Sciences#3,404 #1,437
  3. Social Sciences#1,836 #928
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#1,171 #577
  5. Medicine#4,542 #2,453
  6. Life Sciences#4,034 #2,286
  7. Education#1,168 #668
  8. Arts and Humanities#1,290 #742
  9. Physical Sciences#4,796 #5,618
  10. Sociology and Political Science#2,168 #1,282
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 Mustafa Kemal University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Museology takes 14.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MuseologySubfield · 39.2 works14×
  2. ForestrySubfield · 22.8 works9.7×
  3. PhilosophySubfield · 59.6 works6.1×
  4. Religious studiesSubfield · 22.8 works6.0×
  5. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 31.3 works5.8×
← 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: 3.04× its world share, 328 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 122 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.91× its world share, 21 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.51× its world share, 19 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.01× its world share, 8 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.59× its world share, 21 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.33× its world share, 59 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 13 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.52× its world share, 11 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 71 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.71× its world share, 81 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.47× its world share, 38 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 10 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 3.27× its world share, 36 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.17× its world share, 70 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.07× its world share, 465 worksMedicineNursing: 2.54× its world share, 28 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.84× its world share, 12 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.57× its world share, 234 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.47× its world share, 34 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.73× its world share, 16 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.96× its world share, 46 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.62× its world share, 112 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.40× its world share, 403 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Mustafa Kemal University?

Ranked on the composite score, Volkan Altay, Ali Acaravcı and Cemal Turan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mustafa Kemal University.

  1. 1 Volkan Altay Türkiye · #72,982 worldwide 230 citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Ali Acaravcı Türkiye · #190,428 worldwide 334 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Cemal Turan Türkiye · #295,655 worldwide 97 citations · 39 works
  4. 4 Nizami Duran Türkiye · #303,858 worldwide 69 citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Furkan Dinçer Türkiye · #308,237 worldwide 265 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Soner Soylu Türkiye · #332,826 worldwide 86 citations · 36 works
  7. 7 K. Aslıhan Yener Türkiye · #394,854 worldwide 44 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Mustafa Kurt Türkiye · #420,271 worldwide 76 citations · 33 works
  9. 9 Durmuş Kaya Türkiye · #421,815 worldwide 104 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Faruk Turğut Türkiye · #434,190 worldwide 49 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Mustafa Kemal University

Which keywords describe research at Mustafa Kemal 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, Learning, Teaching and Covid-19 Pandemic.

▲ 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 Heritage108▲ 8.7×16 topics
  2. Climate Change104▲ 1.69×60 topics
  3. Epidemiology98◆ 1.09×110 topics
  4. Education98▲ 2.5×40 topics
  5. Mental Health76▲ 2.3×32 topics
  6. Inflammation70▲ 1.49×70 topics
  7. Qualitative Research69▲ 3.5×10 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress69▲ 1.86×54 topics
  9. Teacher Training65▲ 4.6×14 topics
  10. Meta-Analysis62▲ 4.6×17 topics
  11. Professional Development58▲ 13×8 topics
  12. Distance Education58▲ 12×3 topics
  13. Student Perceptions56▲ 13×6 topics
  14. Learning55▲ 8.2×5 topics
  15. Teaching55▲ 19×4 topics
  16. Antioxidant53▲ 3.4×41 topics
  17. Covid-19 Pandemic52▲ 17×3 topics
  18. Metaphors52▲ 67×1 topic
  19. Teacher Perspectives52▲ 58×1 topic
  20. Language Teaching48▲ 8.3×6 topics
  21. 21st Century Skills45▲ 6.6×4 topics
  22. Ethnography44▲ 11×4 topics
  23. Public Policy44▲ 3.9×6 topics
  24. Educational Research43▲ 13×4 topics
  25. Sufism43▲ 38×2 topics
  26. Migration42▲ 5.5×8 topics
  27. Ottoman Empire42▲ 25×3 topics
  28. Content Analysis41▲ 15×7 topics
  29. Storytelling39▲ 35×2 topics
  30. Rituals39▲ 20×3 topics
  31. Mythology38▲ 33×2 topics
  32. Folklore38▲ 32×1 topic
  33. Turkish Culture38▲ 50×1 topic
  34. Bibliometric Analysis36▲ 28×2 topics
  35. Curriculum Evaluation35▲ 78×1 topic
  36. Reading Habits35▲ 43×1 topic
  37. Psychological Functioning28▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Social Systems27▲ 21×3 topics
  39. Family Constellations26▲ 36×1 topic
  40. Genetic Processes26▲ 36×1 topic

Which research topics does Mustafa Kemal 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: 52 fractional worksCultural and Sociopolitical Studies: 38 fractional worksEducational Methods and …35Educational Methods and Analysis: 35 fractional worksFamilies in Therapy and …26Families in Therapy and Culture: 26 fractional worksTurkish Literature and Culture: 22 fractional worksAgricultural and Rural Development Research: 22 fractional worksIslamic Thought and Soci…20Islamic Thought and Society Studies: 20 fractional worksOttoman and Turkish Studies: 20 fractional worksTurkish Urban and Social Issues: 14 fractional worksPlant Physiology and Cultivation Studies: 14 fractional works
PhilosophyMuseologyEducationSocial Psychology6 others

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

  1. 1 Education Practices and Challenges Philosophy 52 works
  2. 2 Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies Museology 38 works
  3. 3 Educational Methods and Analysis Education 35 works
  4. 4 Families in Therapy and Culture Social Psychology 26 works
  5. 5 Turkish Literature and Culture Literature and Literary Theory 22 works
  6. 6 Agricultural and Rural Development Research Forestry 22 works
  7. 7 Islamic Thought and Society Studies Religious studies 20 works
  8. 8 Ottoman and Turkish Studies History 20 works
  9. 9 Turkish Urban and Social Issues Urban Studies 14 works
  10. 10 Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies Plant Science 14 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 available64.5%not open35.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.3%domestic only92.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Mustafa Kemal University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 67% 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.