Turkey's Top 2% Scientists 2024: Career-Long List

Turkey has 1,172 scientists on the 2024 career-long Top 2% list, up 12.7% from 1,040 in 2023. That places Turkey 25th in the world by number of listed scientists, up 1 place. İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi has the most listed scientists (72), followed by Middle East Technical University (METU) (47).

Single Year

1,518

+123 (+8.8%) vs 2023

Career Data

1,172

+132 (+12.7%) vs 2023

World rank by count

#25

up 1 place vs 2023

Institutes

214

+9 (+4.4%) vs 2023

Scientists in Turkey on the list, by year

The career-long count has grown 91% since 2020.

Career-long list, change on the previous year

2021+34.9%

2022+9.4%

2023+14.8%

2024+12.7%

2025+11.6%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	857		614
2021	1,150	+34.2%	828	+34.9%
2022	1,231	+7.0%	906	+9.4%
2023	1,395	+13.3%	1,040	+14.8%
2024	1,518	+8.8%	1,172	+12.7%
2025	1,564	+3.0%	1,308	+11.6%

Top 10 institutes in Turkey

By number of listed scientists

Career-long list2024

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1İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi72
2Middle East Technical University (METU)47
3Hacettepe Üniversitesi44
4Firat Üniversitesi39
5Koç Üniversitesi38
6Gazi Üniversitesi34
7Bilkent Üniversitesi29
8Erciyes Üniversitesi23
9Karadeniz Technical University23
10Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi23

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Rank in Turkey	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	2,006	CI Cakmak, Ismail	Sabancı Üniversitesi	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 6
2	2,741	SA Sari, Ahmet	Karadeniz Technical University	Energy	Rank 31
3	2,906	Gİ Gulçin, İlhami	Atatürk Üniversitesi	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 6
4	3,313	SM Sitti, Metin	Koç Üniversitesi	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 17
5	3,418	TM Turkyilmazoglu, Mustafa	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 22
6	3,454	ŞA Şengör, A. M.Celâl	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 30
7	4,616	OE Ozbay, Ekmel	Bilkent Üniversitesi	Applied Physics	Rank 129
8	4,790	TM Tuzen, Mustafa	Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 19
9	5,672	AZ Aksu, Zümriye	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Biotechnology	Rank 12
10	7,087	SM Soylak, Mustafa	Erciyes Üniversitesi	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 30
11	7,587	HA Hepbasli, Arif	Yaşar Üniversitesi	Energy	Rank 77
12	8,183	BM Balat, Mustafa	Sila Science and Energy Unlimited Company	Energy	Rank 85
13	9,465	EÖ Erel, Özcan	Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 41
14	10,331	KO Karatepe, Osman M.	Eastern Mediterranean University	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 13
15	10,894	OA Okay, Aral I.	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 141
16	11,983	ÖH Öztop, Hakan F.	Firat Üniversitesi	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 81
17	12,252	YF Yakuphanoğlu, Fahrettin	Firat Üniversitesi	Applied Physics	Rank 303
18	12,258	Dİ Doymaz, İbrahim	Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi	Food Science	Rank 44
19	12,503	KC Kahraman, Cengiz	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 255
20	12,528	ÖM Özcan, Mehmet Musa	Selçuk Üniversitesi	Food Science	Rank 46
21	13,247	ŞZ Şen, Zekâi	İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi	Environmental Engineering	Rank 40
22	13,379	UB Ustun, Bedirhan	Koç Üniversitesi	Psychiatry	Rank 369
23	13,522	AN Adsay, N. Volkan	Koç Üniversitesi	Pathology	Rank 48
24	13,993	MA Mostafazadeh, Ali	Koç Üniversitesi	Mathematical Physics	Rank 10
25	14,284	ÖS Özen, Seza	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 128
26	14,799	BE Bora, Emre	Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi	Psychiatry	Rank 403
27	15,288	KK Kaygusuz, Kamil	Karadeniz Technical University	Energy	Rank 162
28	15,633	CM Canakci, M.	Kocaeli Üniversitesi	Energy	Rank 166
29	16,840	YY Yagci, Yusuf	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	Polymers	Rank 137
30	17,915	SM Sarıkaya, Mehmet	Düzce Üniversitesi	General Mathematics	Rank 51
31	18,157	YA Yildiz, Ali Riza	Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi	Materials	Rank 217
32	18,948	OO Okay, Oguz	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	Polymers	Rank 153
33	19,809	EM Emre, Murat	İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,558
34	20,546	BG Büyüközkan, Gülçin	Galatasaray Üniversitesi	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 432
35	20,643	DL de la Rosette, Jean	İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 226
36	20,747	BE Başar, Erol	Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,630
37	21,568	Karapinar, Erdal	Çankaya Üniversitesi	General Mathematics	Rank 69
38	22,092	ŞÇ Şekercioğlu, Çağan H.	Koç Üniversitesi	Ecology	Rank 393
39	22,261	YH Yazici, Hasan	Academic Hospital	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 180
40	22,612	Tİ Topçu, İlker Bekir	Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi	Building & Construction	Rank 40
41	22,648	KM Kök, Mustafa Verşan	Middle East Technical University (METU)	Energy	Rank 250
42	22,649	BE Basar, Ertugrul	Koç Üniversitesi	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 186
43	22,966	BE Budak, Erhan	Sabancı Üniversitesi	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 161
44	24,026	JE Jeppesen, Erik	Middle East Technical University (METU)	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 170
45	24,071	BA Baykasoğlu, Adil	Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 495
46	24,386	KM Kozak, Metin	Kadir Has Üniversitesi	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 31
47	24,429	Al-Turjman, Fadi	Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 205
48	24,680	AS Arik, Sabri	Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 506
49	24,827	BY Birol, Yucel	Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi	Materials	Rank 301
50	25,322	SA Sofiyev, A. H.	Istanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi	Materials	Rank 308
51	25,739	OI Orhan, Ilkay Erdogan	Gazi Üniversitesi	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 75
52	26,141	AR Apak, Reşat	Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 155
53	26,156	NM Nazıroğlu, Mustafa	Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,996
54	26,724	ÜE Übeyli, Elif Derya	TOBB University of Economics and Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 553
55	27,256	KF Kargi, Fikret	Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi	Biotechnology	Rank 61
56	27,937	AM Arica, Mehmet Yakup	Gazi Üniversitesi	Biotechnology	Rank 65
57	28,239	CB Carr, Brian I.	Inönü Üniversitesi Tip Fakültesi	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,272
58	28,535	Aydogdu, Metin	Trakya Üniversitesi	Materials	Rank 348
59	28,736	GA Gul, Ahmet	İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 216
60	28,993	AE Arıkan, Erdal	Bilkent Üniversitesi	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 239
61	29,031	IM Inc, Mustafa	Firat Üniversitesi	General Physics	Rank 167
62	29,167	KD Karaboga, Dervis	Erciyes Üniversitesi	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 611
63	29,401	ŞM Şimşek, Mesut	Hatay Mustafa Kemal University	Materials	Rank 358
64	29,558	YM Yola, Mehmet Lütfi	Hasan Kalyoncu University	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 179
65	29,940	ÖM Özacar, Mahmut	Sakarya Üniversitesi	Chemical Physics	Rank 658
66	30,269	DE Dogan, Eyup	Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi	Energy	Rank 352
67	31,228	DD Delen, Dursun	İstinye Üniversitesi	Information Systems	Rank 72
68	33,349	DA Denizli, Adil	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Polymers	Rank 296
69	33,709	ES Ercisli, Sezai	Atatürk Üniversitesi	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 404
70	34,648	OA Onat, Altan	Istanbul Üniversitesi	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,384
71	35,088	GV Gökmen, Vural	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Food Science	Rank 135
72	35,101	FT Faist, Thomas	Middle East Technical University (METU)	Sociology	Rank 87
73	36,193	SA Sahin, Ahmet Z.	Turkish Japanese University of Science and Technology	Energy	Rank 427
74	36,246	GC Gokceoglu, Candan	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 152
75	36,989	ÖS Özkar, Saim	Middle East Technical University (METU)	Organic Chemistry	Rank 700
76	37,895	ÖZ Önis, Ziya	Koç Üniversitesi	International Relations	Rank 30
77	38,291	BE Biglieri, Ezio	Boğaziçi Üniversitesi	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 314
78	38,788	YE Yesilada, Erdem	Yeditepe University	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 111
79	39,198	AE Akpinar, Ebru Kavak	Firat Üniversitesi	Energy	Rank 466
80	39,928	MM Maskan, Medeni	Gaziantep Üniversitesi	Food Science	Rank 159
81	40,271	YA Yildirim, Ahmet	Ege Üniversitesi	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Rank 56
82	40,295	YI Yilmaz, Isik	Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 176
83	40,531	EH Erbil, H. Y.	Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi	Chemical Physics	Rank 857
84	40,600	AB Akay, B.	Erciyes Üniversitesi	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 848
85	41,989	AH Arslan, Huseyin	İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 345
86	42,214	KS Keskin, Seda	Koç Üniversitesi	Chemical Engineering	Rank 162
87	42,588	DH Direskeneli, Haner	Marmara Üniversitesi Tip Fakültesi	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 310
88	42,945	BA Barka, Aykut	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 728
89	44,286	PK Polat, Kemal	Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 922
90	44,415	EÖ Ergönül, Önder	Koç Üniversitesi	Microbiology	Rank 1,122
91	44,455	AA Allahverdi, Ali	Gazi Üniversitesi	Operations Research	Rank 140
92	45,003	ES Eryilmaz, Serkan	Atilim University	Statistics & Probability	Rank 195
93	45,247	KS Kahraman, Sair	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 192
94	45,764	SM Sahmaran, Mustafa	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Building & Construction	Rank 91
95	45,798	KN Khan, Naveed Ahmed	İstinye Üniversitesi	Microbiology	Rank 1,154
96	46,501	BE Bozkurt, Erdin	Middle East Technical University (METU)	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 793
97	46,531	CM Cetin, Mehmet	Ondokuz Mayis Üniversitesi	Environmental Sciences	Rank 285
98	46,942	BA Baykal, Abdulhadi	İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi	Materials	Rank 595
99	47,039	AD Arditi, David	Illinois Institute of Technology	Building & Construction	Rank 95
100	47,517	SF Selimefendigil, Fatih	Manisa Celâl Bayar Üniversitesi	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 311
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Turkey are in the 2024 Stanford Top 2% list?

1,518 scientists affiliated with Turkey are on the 2024 single-year list, and 1,172 are on the career-long list.

Which institute in Turkey has the most Top 2% scientists?

On the 2024 career-long list, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi has the most listed scientists from Turkey, with 72. It is followed by Middle East Technical University (METU) with 47.

How has the number of Top 2% scientists in Turkey changed since 2020?

On the career-long list, Turkey went from 614 scientists in 2020 to 1,172 in 2024, a change of +90.9%.

What is the difference between the single-year and career-long lists?

The single-year list ranks scientists on the citations their work received in one year. The career-long list ranks them on citations across their whole career. Both lists are published every year, and a scientist can be on one, both or neither.

What is the official source of this data?

The rankings come from the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators published by Ioannidis et al. in the Elsevier Data Repository, updated every year. TOPSCINET, an independent platform, organises that data by country, year, institute and field, so you can compare and explore it.