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NEW DISTINCTION FOR THE NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS: NKUA IS RANKED 85TH WORLDWIDE AND 15TH IN EUROPE BY WEBOMETRICS

New Distinction for the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: NKUA is ranked 85th worldwide and 15th in Europe  by Webometrics

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is ranked 85th worldwide, according to the results of the global ranking “Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations” by Webometrics, published on June 25th, 2021.

As mentioned in a relevant announcement, NKUA is in the 15th place in Europe and in the first place among the Greek Higher Education Institutions, with 2.537.572 citations.

This performance gives NKUA the 1st place among the Universities of the Mediterranean and the Balkans.

It should be noted that for the fifth consecutive year, NKUA is in the TOP 100 of this global ranking.

This ranking, published for the 12th time, includes 4.234 Universities, of which 24 are Greek. It is based on the number of citations of research by Professors and researchers of Institutions. Citations are identified through Google Scholar's search engine and the top researchers’ profiles in this engine.  The figures are valid only at the time of collection (around June 20-24th 2021). More specifically citations from the top 210 public profiles of each university are collected. This number of profiles is for allowing size independent comparisons.  The top twenty (20) 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.         

What makes an impression is the fact that the number of NKUA’s citations covers the 30% of all citations of 24 Greek universities that are included in the ranking. The total number of citations of Greek Universities is 8.790.596 showing an increase of 21.5% compared to the previous year.

The "top five" of the best Greek Universities is fulfilled by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at 275 with 1.104.907 citations (2nd place), the University of  Patras at 375 with 792.182 citations (3rd place), the National Technical University of Athens at position 383 with 777.480 citations (4th place) and the University of Crete at 403 position with 738.216 citations (5th place).

At the top of the ranking is Harvard University from the USA and in 2nd, 3rd and 4th place are also the American Universities Stanford, Berkeley and MIT. In 5th place is the University of Cambridge and in 7th is the University of Oxford from the United Kingdom while the other four positions in the top 10 of this ranking, are occupied by Universities from the United States of America.

 

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

UNIVERSITY

COUNTRY RANK 2021

WORLD RANK 2021 JULY

WORLD RANK 2020 JULY

CITATIONS 2021 JULY

CITATIONS 2020

JULY

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

1

85

86

2537572

2296997

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

2

275

286

1104907

933695

University of Patras (incl University of Western Greece)

3

375

368

792182

686602

National Technical University of Athens

4

383

382

777480

663297

University of Crete

5

403

413

738216

607835

University of Ioannina

6

478

473

580993

499911

University of Thessaly

7

513

559

524318

394000

Democritus University of Thrace

8

686

738

320779

235984

Athens University of Economics and Business

9

850

846

212572

175447

University of the Aegean

10

875

861

196972

169913

Technical University of Crete

11

888

882

191968

160598

Agricultural University of Athens

12

909

1027

183497

110186

University of West Attica

13

968

2588

158650

7757

University of Piraeus

14

1170

1136

107659

88297

Hellenic Mediterranean University

15

1395

2440

71160

9795

Harokopio University of Athens

16

1415

1497

69485

44525

University of Western Macedonia

17

1481

1492

60375

45217

University of Peloponnese

18

1522

1607

55819

36432

International Helenic University

19

1947

1859

28551

23620

Hellenic Open University

20

2095

2066

22986

17068

University of Macedonia

21

2104

2760

22517

6010

Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences

22

2384

2477

15372

9249

Ionian University

23

2413

2602

14934

7578

School of Pedagogical and Technological Education

24

3931

 

1632

 

 

 

 

 

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