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IN THE 74TH POSITION WORLDWIDE AND 11TH IN EUROPE IS NKUA IN THE WEBOMETRICS "TOP UNIVERSITIES BY TOP GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS" RANKING

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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is in the 74th position worldwide. That is according to Webometrics 'Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations' rankings, which was published in late January 2020. The specific ranking list, which was published for 9th time, includes 4320 Universities; among them 28 are Greek Universities (see Table 1). NKUA is ranked in the 74th world position, 11th in Europe and 1st among Greek institutions, with 2039623 citations.

The "top five" of the best Greek Universities is fulfilled by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at 324 with 679598 citations, the University of Patras at 399 with 535480 citations, the National Technical University of Athens at position 400 with 535454 citations and the University of Crete at 437 positionwith 484842 citations.

This ranking list is based on the citation number of research work , professors and researchers of the Institutions. Citations are identified through Google Scholar's search engine and the top researchers’ profiles in this engine.  More specifically citations from the top 110 public profiles of each university are collected. This number of profiles is for allowing size independent comparisons.  The top ten (10) profiles of the list are excluded for improving representativeness by removing outliers. For the rest of the top profiles, the numbers of citations are added and the institutions are ranked in descending order of this indicator. These clues were collected from 10th up to 20th January 2020.

                What makes an impression is the fact that the number of NKUA’s citations covers the 33% of all citations of 28 Greek universities that are included in the ranking.

Table 1: Ranking of Greek Universities in Webometrics “Top Universities by Google Scholar Citations”

World Rank

Country Rank

UNIVERSITY

CITATIONS

74

1

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

2039623

324

2

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

679598

399

3

University of Patras (incl University of Western Greece)

535480

400

4

National Technical University of Athens

535454

437

5

University of Crete

484842

474

6

University of Ioannina

439053

649

7

University of Thessaly

281006

796

8

Democritus University of Thrace

193698

805

9

Technical University of Crete

187465

831

10

Athens University of Economics and Business

177946

884

11

University of the Aegean

157813

1029

12

Agricultural University of Athens

114058

1073

13

University of Piraeus

106659

1447

14

Harokopio University of Athens

57145

1644

15

University of Macedonia

41452

1681

16

University of Peloponnese

38994

1862

17

Technological Education Institute of Crete

30626

1914

18

Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki

28703

1935

19

University of Western Macedonia

28099

2246

20

Technological Education Institute of Athens

18559

2271

21

Hellenic Open University

18066

2287

22

Technological Education Institute of Thessaly (former TEI of Larissa)

15524

2424

23

Ionian University

13010

2670

24

Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences

9661

3572

25

School of Pedagogical and Technological Education

2817

3757

26

Technological Education Institute of Western Greece

2232

3808

27

International Helenic University

2092

4043

28

Technological Education Institute of Piraeus

1486