Üsküdar University has achieved another significant success among international universities in research, innovation, and societal impact rankings. According to the ranking conducted by Scimago Rankings through the Scopus database, Üsküdar University, with the societal impact of its scientific output, not only entered the ranking in 2023 as Turkey's 4th private university but also succeeded in becoming the 1st university showing the most development in Turkey. At the same time, Üsküdar University ranked 3rd in Turkey with its work in the field of basic sciences.
Ranked 3rd in Turkey…
Üsküdar University, with the societal impact of its scientific output, not only entered the ranking in 2023 as Turkey's 4th private university but also succeeded in becoming the 1st university showing the most development in Turkey.
At the same time, Üsküdar University, which contributed to new knowledge production related to the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations, women's participation in research processes, and the use of scientific study results in the formation or improvement of public policies, ranked high with its work in medicine, psychiatry, psychology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics, while ranking 3rd in Turkey with its work in the field of basic sciences.
Had become the 2nd most developing private university
Üsküdar University, which conducts scientific activities focused on university-industry-public-society cooperation with the mission of not just producing knowledge for society but producing knowledge with society, had previously ranked in the top 10 among private universities in Turkey in the “Research Index” ranking as of 2022, becoming the 2nd most developing private university in 2022 with its remarkable development in the innovation index, and the 2nd most effective university with its work in the field of basic sciences.
What are Scimago Rankings?
SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a ranking methodology developed from information in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.), combining three main indicators: research performance, innovation outputs, and societal impact with web visibility. Included in the SCIMAGO ranking, which evaluates many institutions, especially research universities, with an annually pre-announced evaluation methodology;
• Research Ranking, while expressing the volume, impact, and quality of the institution's research output,
• Innovation Ranking is calculated based on the institution's number of patent applications and citations received by research outputs from patents. (PATSTATS-Worldwide Patent Statistical Database)
• Societal Impact Ranking is based on the number of pages on the institution's website and the number of feedbacks and mentions from social networks. (PlumX metrics & Mendeley)
Key metrics used when Scimago bases its societal impact score are;
- Altmetrics (AM): this indicator has two components:
PlumX Metrics (weight: %70): In PlumX Metrics, it refers to the frequency of Üsküdar University's scientific activities being mentioned on social media accounts, blogs, and news sites.
Mendeley (weight: %30): It refers to the number of documents related to Üsküdar University's scientific activities in Mendeley, an online library.
- Sustainable Development Goals: (SDG) Tracks the number of documents related to the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations.
- Female Scientific Talent Pool: (FemSTP) refers to the number of distinct female authors of scientific articles from an institution.
- Impact on Public Policy - Overton (OV): Refers to the number of institutional documents cited in policy documents according to the Overton database.
- Web Size (WS): Refers to the number of pages associated with Üsküdar University’s website according to Google.
- Authority Score (AScore): A composite metric developed to measure a website's overall quality and SEO performance. It primarily tracks link strength, organic traffic, and spam factors.