Eastern Mediterranean University, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Physics Department Chair Prof. Dr. Mustafa Halilsoy ranks within the first 1000 in Webometrics Rankings of Turkish Scientists. Operating under the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and carrying out research on about 20,000 universities throughout the world, Spanish - centered “Webometrics ” published ‘Rankings of the Top “1000” Scientists in Turkish Institutions’ according to their Google Scholar Citations (GSC) public profiles.
Having been ranked 631st, Prof. Dr. Halilsoy stated that so far he has published over 100 academic articles. Expressing his pride in taking place in rankings as such, Prof. Dr. Halilsoy put forth that his research on Einstein’s relativity theory is amongst his most important works.
The rankings were based on data collected during the third week of December 2014 from the public profiles of researchers working in Turkish institutions. It is a BETA Ranking of the scientists according to their declared presence in the Google Scholar Citations database. The list consists of the Top 1000 profiles ranked first by h-index in decreasing order and, when ties appear, then by the total number of citations as a secondary criteria.
