Academicians of our university, Prof. Dr. Abdullah H.Sofiev, Prof. Dr. Doğan Kaya and Faculty Member Dr. Usman Ujanugva, were included in the “World’s Most Influential Scientists List” as a result of the survey carried out by Stanford University in 22 scientific disciplines and 176 subdisciplines.
Our said three academicians were named among the most cited scientists by Stanford University in the open access “annual impact” and “career-long impact” categories of the Elsevier index.
The ‘World’s Most Influential Scientists List’ was created based on a database of articles which were cited within the scope of ‘self citations’ and ‘non-self citations’.
Our academicians included in the “Annual Impact” category were as follows;
| First Name/Last Name | Ranking Without Self Citations (2021) | Total Citation Ranking (1996-2019) |
| Prof. Dr. Abdullah H. Sofiyev | 29.440 | 27.823 |
| Prof. Dr. Doğan Kaya | 117.115 | 105.527 |
| Faculty Member Dr. Usman Ujanugwa | 224.143 | 87.866 |
Our academicians included in the “Career-Long Impact” category were as follows;
| First Name/Last Name | Ranking Without Self Citations | Total Citation Ranking |
| Prof. Dr. Abdullah H. Sofiyev | 10.068 | 9.793 |
| Prof. Dr. Doğan Kaya | 109.734 | 98.363 |
The impact data pertaining to the entire career of academicians and to the last year have been were given separately. Self citations and non-self citations metrics and the ratio of citations to cited articles were also given.
Scientists were categorized into 22 scientific disciplines and 176 subdisciplines.
Career-long impact data are updated by the end of 2021. The last year impact data relates to citations received in the 2021 calendar year.
Top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or who took place in 2% or a higher percentile in the relevant subdiscipline are included in the database.
Accordingly, 195,605 scientists were included in the career-long impact database, and 200,409 scientists were included in the last year impact database.
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4