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 |
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