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NKUA ranks first among Greek Universities in research output, according to data from Elsevier’s Scopus bibliographic database

NKUA ranks first among Greek Universities in research output, according to data from Elsevier’s Scopus bibliographic database

Data collected recently from Elsevier’s Scopus bibliographic database and referring to the period ending on 13 February 2023 re-confirm the significant research output of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. These data place the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens first overall among Greek Universities—with 94,175 research papers—and second in the number of authors (see Table 1). Further analysis of the data also demonstrates that:

  1. NKUA has 5.4 times more publications than the average of all Greek Higher Educational Institutions.
  2. By early 2022 NKUA accounted for 22% of the combined publications of all 25 Greek Higher Educational Institutions.
  3. As illustrated in Figure 1, which has been generated through Scopus to present the percentage distribution of the NKUA’s research papers by subject area, 30.4% of NKUA’s research papers come from Medicine. Following this are Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 10.4% of research papers, and Physics and Astronomy, with 8.5%.

Table 1: Greek Universities’ research output according to Scopus (February 2023)

 UniversitiesTotal number of publicationsTotal number of authorsNumber of publications per authorSubject area with the highest percentage of publicationsPercentage of publications in the most published subject area
1National and Kapodistrian University of Athens94,17514,2476.61Medicine30.4
2Aristotle University of Thessaloniki76,99516,2224.74Medicine16.1
3National Technical University of Athens46,7908,4005.93Engineering24.4
4University of Patras42,4867,2945.82Engineering15.8
5University of Ioannina27,8113,2838.47Medicine17.6
6University of Crete26,1073,2028.15Medicine17.1
7University of Thessaly19,1294,2044.55Medicine19
8Democritus University of Thrace16,8173,4654.85Medicine18.6
9University of the Aegean10,0591,9075.27Computer Science17.2
10Agricultural University of Athens8,8142,6523.32Agricultural and Biological Sciences31.3
11Technical University of Crete7,9011,6134.90Engineering20.6
12University of West Attica9,7652,5443.84Medicine14.2
13University of Piraeus7,2431,2345.87Computer Science26.3
14Athens University of Economics and Business6,7351,0316.53Computer Science23.1
15International Hellenic University6,3759646.61Computer Science14.1
16University of Macedonia4,6599175.08Computer Science23.1
17Harokopio University of Athens4,4599594.64Medicine27.5
18University of Western Macedonia4,2769604.45Engineering17
19Hellenic Mediterranean University3,8081,0213.73Engineering15.7
20Hellenic Open University3,7911,0023.78Computer Science15.2
21University of the Peloponnese3,4256565.22Computer Science20.5
22Ionian University2,0524714.35Computer Science33.4
23Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences1,6524423.73Social Sciences30
24School of Pedagogical and Technological Education9131486.16Engineering29.8
25Athens School of Fine Arts48242Arts and Humanities35.9
 TOTAL436,28578,862   
 AVERAGE17,4513,1555.53  
Source: Scopus bibliographic database

Figure 1: Percentage distribution of the NKUA’s research papers by subject area

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Scopus is one of the most popular and comprehensive literature search databases. It includes over 36,377 journal titles and 335,000 book titles from 11,678 global publishers, 97 million records (78% of which come complete with an abstract), more than 5.3 million conference papers, and roughly 1.8 billion citations from 1970 onwards. It is generally regarded as the world’s largest citation and abstract database of authoritative international literature, providing users-researchers with powerful discovery and analytics tools. Scopus covers a variety of subjects, including Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Social Sciences, Psychology, Economics, Biology, Agricultural Sciences, Environmental Science, and many more.

The staff of our University’s Quality Assurance Unit collected and processed Scopus data for NKUA.

Thanos Dimopoulos
Rector of NKUA

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