Distinction for NKUA – It ranked in the 82th place worldwide in AD Scientific Universities Index World Top Universities Ranking 2022

A very important distinction, which demonstrates the high quality, the global impact and recognition of the research project at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , was reflected in the results of the global research ranking “AD Scientific Index World Top Universities Ranking 2022″. More specifically, the institution ranks 82nd worldwide among 16,091 Universities from 216 countries included in this ranking. (see table 1)

Additionally, it is in 19th place among Europeans Universities and in 1st place among Greek public universities universities for 2022.

	University	Region Rank	World Rank	Scientists in AD Index
1	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	17	82	1440
2	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	144	376	986
3	National Technical University of Athens	181	451	528
4	University of Crete	193	489	346
5	University of Patras (incl University of Western Greece)	221	543	668
6	University of Ioannina	245	609	342
7	Harokopio University of Athens	390	929	81
8	Technical University of Crete	438	1027	128
9	University of Thessaly	520	1238	482
10	Agricultural University of Athens	566	1342	160
11	Democritus University of Thrace	576	1359	293
12	University of West Attica	671	1581	227
13	Hellenic Open University	747	1857	50
14	Athens University of Economics and Business	831	2135	167
15	University of the Aegean	870	2231	201
16	University of Piraeus	878	2255	108
17	Hellenic Mediterranean University	983	2570	96
18	University of Macedonia	1071	2861	49
19	International Hellenic University	1121	3054	50
20	University of Western Macedonia	1251	3466	93
21	School of Pedagogical and Technological Εducation	1409	4077	21
22	University of Peloponnese	1481	4493	89
23	Ionian University	1716	5238	39
24	Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences	1724	5270	41

Another important distinction for EKPA is the fact that it has overall the largest number of scientists among the Greeks universities in the ranking (1440), while nine (9) of them are in the top 1000 researchers worldwide (see table 2)

Α/Α	Full Name	Field	World Rank	Title of Most Popular Publication
1	Christine Κourkoumelis Top 2%	Natural Sciences/ Physics	#120	Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
2	Fassouliotis Dimitris Top 2%	Natural Sciences/ Physics	#132	Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
3	Paraskevas Paris Sphicas Top 2%	Natural Sciences/ Physics	#226	Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
4	George P Chrousos Top 2%	Medical and Health Sciences/ Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism	#229	The concepts of stress and stress system disorders: overview of physical and behavioral homeostasis
5	Niki Saoulidou Top 2%	Natural Sciences/ Physics	#255	Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
6	Konstantinos Theofilatos Top 2%	Natural Sciences/ Physics	#256	Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
7	Dimitrios Trichopoulos Top 2%	Medical and Health Sciences/ Epidemiology and Public Health	#608	Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016
8	Antonia Trichopoulou Top 2%	President HHF Medical School NKUA	#858	Heart disease and stroke statistics–2012 update: a report from the American Heart Association
9	Meletios Athanasios Dimopoulos Top 2%	Dean, Clinical Therapeutics, Hematology- Oncology	#996	International Myeloma Working Group updated criteria for the diagnosis of multiple myeloma
10	Gerasimos Filippatos	Medical and Health Sciences/ Cardiology	#1331	ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC

Four criteria are used to rank the countries. The first is the number of scientists of each University in the list of 10,000 leading scientists. The second criterion is the number of scientists in list of 100,000 with the most important research output. The third is the total number of University scientists included in scientific catalog AD Scientific Index. In the event of a tie after application of all three of these criteria, is used as the fourth criterion the highest global ranking among researchers located in first place of their Foundation.

The total values of Hindex and i10-index together with the number of citations are used, as well as the total values of Hindex and i10-index of the last 5 years together with the number of references received in the last 5 years.

Table 3 shows the position of NKUA in its individual criteria ranking. It is worthy to note that in the i10 index criterion it is in 45th place worldwide and in 8th place in Europe.

Other Criteria	World Rank Among 16085 Universities	Region Rank Among 3344 Universities	Rank Among Greek Universities
Total H index	83	20	1
Last 5 years H index	92	24	1
Total i10 index	45	8	1
Last 5 years i10 index	54	10	1
Citations	68	10	1
Last 5 years Citations	72	10	1

Table 4 shows the distribution of the 1440 EKPA scientists in the individual scientific-research fields and in the top 2% and 10% of scientists in research output.

Number of scientists in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Total number of scientists	Agriculture & Forestry	Arts, Design and Architecture	Business & Management	Economics & Econometrics	Education	Engineering & Technology	History, Philosophy, Theology	Law / Law and Legal Studies	Medical and Health Sciences	Natural Sciences	Social Sciences	Others
In World’s Top 2% Scientists	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	9	0	32
In World’s Top 10% Scientists	253	0	0	0	0	1	14	0	0	128	33	0	77
Total Scientists in Index	1440	10	0	11	22	13	104	14	1	534	203	37	491

In 1st place among Greek universities as mentioned above, is the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and followed by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the National and Technical University of Athens, while the first five are completed by the University of Crete and the University of Patras.

See also: https://studyingreece.edu.gr/great-distinction-for-nkua/