NKUA ranked 90th worldwide and 20th in Europe according to ‘Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations’

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Webometrics has recently announced (25 July 2023) the results of the global ranking ‘Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations’, which is performed twice a year (in January and July) and relies on the number of citations received by the faculty and researchers of an Institution. Webometrics tracks citations through Google Scholar, the most popular search engine for scholarly literature. Data for the current ranking cover the period from 1^st to 20^th July 2023

The Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Thanos Dimopoulos, welcomed the news that, according to the results announced by Webometrics, NKUA ranked 90^th in the world and 20^th in Europe. This latest (16^th) edition of the ‘Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations’ includes 5,500 Universities, with 23 Greek Higher Educational Institutions on the list (see Table 1). Apart from the above-mentioned international distinction, NKUA ranked 1^st nationally, with 4,079,762 citations. On a regional level, i.e., in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, NKUA also ranked 1^st.

Other Greek Universities ranked in the top 5 nationwide are Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (277^th place with 1,798,977 citations), the University of Patras (390^th place with 1,243,128 citations), the National Technical University of Athens (413^th place with 1,153,848 citations), and the University of Crete (430^th place with 1,108,238 citations).

Table 1: Ranking of Greek Universities in Webometrics’ ‘Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations’ (July 2023)

University	World Rank July 2023	Country Rank July 2023	Citations July 2023
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	90	1	4,079,762
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	277	2	1,798,977
University of Patras (incl University of Western Greece)	390	3	1,243,128
National Technical University of Athens	413	4	1,153,848
University of Crete	430	5	1,108,238
University of Thessaly	487	6	940,545
University of Ioannina	513	7	876,552
Democritus University of Thrace	724	8	500,455
Agricultural University of Athens	913	9	333,262
University of West Attica	938	10	315,844
Athens University of Economics and Business	969	11	292,046
Technical University of Crete	1,015	12	268,456
University of Piraeus	1,267	13	165,629
University of Western Macedonia	1,455	14	125,338
Hellenic Mediterranean University	1,458	15	125,085
University of the Peloponnese	1,528	16	112,141
International Hellenic University	1,564	17	106,689
Harokopio University of Athens	1,568	18	106,350
Hellenic Open University	2,031	19	54,498
Ionian University	2,117	20	49,150
Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences	2,267	21	41,125
University of Macedonia	3,041	22	17,298
School of Pedagogical and Technological Education	4,581	23	2,951

Source: Webometrics’ Web Page

At the top of the ranking globally are the American Harvard University (1^st place), Stanford University (2^nd place), MIT (3^rd place), and the University of California, Berkeley (4^th place), followed by the University of Oxford in the UK (5^th place).

It is important to note that the methodology of ‘Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations’ has changed from the previous year. More specifically, as of January 2023, each University’s score is calculated by adding the citations of its top 310 (instead of the top 210 up to 2022) authors (faculty and researchers) minus the citations of the top 30 outliers (instead of the top 20 up to 2022).

Remarkably, the number of citations received by NKUA alone represents approximately 30% of the total number of citations received by all 23 Greek Universities included in the ranking. Overall, Greek Universities received 13,817,367 citations.

With the current achievement and the results in previous ‘Top Universities by Top Google Scholar Citations’, NKUA sets a new national record as the only Greek University to enter the top 100 of a global University ranking for the 7^th time in the last 8 years.

According to the Rector, Professor Thanos Dimopoulos, this illustrates again that vital research is underway at NKUA—an internationally recognized and cited Institution—laying the groundwork for outstanding collaboration with Universities and research teams from other countries. It also confirms NKUA’s policy of boosting the University’s academic presence on the Web through supporting Open Access Initiatives. The primary goal of this approach is to allow the large-scale dissemination of scientific knowledge generated at NKUA to society as a whole.