The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) is in the 86th position worldwide. That is according to Webometrics 'Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations' rankings, which was published in late July 2020. The specific ranking list, which was published for 10th time, includes 3836 Universities; among them 25 are Greek Universities (see Table 1). NKUA is ranked in the 86th world position, 17th in Europe and 1st among Greek institutions, with 2296997 citations. This performance gives NKUA the 1st place both among the Universities of the Mediterranean Sea and among the Universities in the Balkans.
The "top five" of the best Greek Universities is fulfilled by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at 286 with 933695 citations, the University of Patras at 368 with 686602 citations, the National Technical University of Athens at position 382 with 663297 citations and the University of Crete at 413 positionwith 607835 citations. At the top of the ranking is Harvard University, while the next six places in the ranking are occupied also by Universities from the United States of America. In 8th and 10th place are the first European Universities from Great Britain (Cambridge & Oxford).
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 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. The figures are valid only at the time of collection (around July 5-18th 2020). This version consist only of Top entries (citations>1000), about 3800 institutions, but we will use non-zero values for about an additional 2000 institutions.
What makes an impression is the fact that the number of NKUA’s citations covers the 32% 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 |
86 | 1 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | 2296997 |
286 | 2 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | 933695 |
368 | 3 | University of Patras (incl University of Western Greece) | 686602 |
382 | 4 | National Technical University of Athens | 663297 |
413 | 5 | University of Crete | 607835 |
473 | 6 | University of Ioannina | 499911 |
559 | 7 | University of Thessaly | 394000 |
738 | 8 | Democritus University of Thrace | 235984 |
846 | 9 | Athens University of Economics and Business | 175447 |
861 | 10 | University of the Aegean | 169913 |
882 | 11 | Technical University of Crete | 160598 |
1027 | 12 | Agricultural University of Athens | 110186 |
1136 | 13 | University of Piraeus | 88297 |
1492 | 14 | University of Western Macedonia | 45217 |
1497 | 15 | Harokopio University of Athens | 44525 |
1607 | 16 | University of Peloponnese | 36432 |
1859 | 17 | University of Macedonia | 23620 |
1976 | 18 | Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki | 19392 |
2066 | 19 | Hellenic Open University | 17068 |
2440 | 20 | Technological Education Institute of Crete | 9795 |
2477 | 21 | Ionian University | 9249 |
2588 | 22 | Technological Education Institute of Athens | 7757 |
2602 | 23 | Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences | 7578 |
2760 | 24 | International Helenic University | 6010 |
2762 | 25 | Technological Education Institute of Thessaly (former TEI of Larissa) | 6000 |
Source: Webometrics Web page