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The website 'Web of Science', which provides comprehensive citation data for many different academical disciplines, has started to list the most cited scientific papers in its field. He drew attention to the number of citations received by the scientific articles published by the faculty members of Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU). The University has stated that the publications titled “Renewable energy consumption in EU-28 countries: Policy toward pollution mitigation and economic sustainability” (Andrew Adewele Alola), “The role of renewable energy, immigration and real income in environmental sustainability target. Evidence from Europe largest states” (Uju Violet Alola, Andrew Adewele Alola), and “A survey on the critical issues in smart grid technologies” (İlhami Çolak) have received over 100 citations in a short time.
 

Asst. Prof. Dr. Andrew Adewele Alola talked about his paper titled “The role of renewable energy, immigration and real income in environmental sustainability target. Evidence from Europe largest states” and said as follows:
 

“Considering the achievements of the European Union (EU) countries toward attaining the sustainable development goals (SDGs), our study was designed to examine if immigration policy specifically plays any significant (either positive or negative) role especially in the continents’ energy efficiency achievement. Importantly, the study considered the case of the EU countries because of the free-entry immigration policy of the EU-28 member states. Lastly, three largest member states of the EU: France, Germany, and the United Kingdome were considered because of their seemingly homogeneity nature. Our study found that immigration trend in the examined countries might jeopardize the drive toward sustainable environment. We also found that as the countries experience economic expansion, more need be done to avert a disservice otherwise a trade-off between economic expansion and environmental sustainability policy will be inevitable. This study is important because it further provides understanding and policy guidance for the EU member countries and other similar states.”

Referring to the reorganization of ‘Procedures and Principles Regarding the Employment of International Faculty Members’ by Head of the Council of Higher Education Prof. Dr. Yekta Saraç, IGU Chairman of the Board of the Trustees Abdulkadir Gayretli spoke: “We have 53 international faculty members from 23 different countries. We attach importance to that our faculty members graduate from qualified universities, do research and make publications. We encourage them to continue these kinds of scientific publications when they come to our university. They publish such qualified publications that will receive the most citation in the world. Uju Violet Alola who started as Assistant Professor in our University in 2019, achieved 3.45 citation average with 38 citations she has written in our University in a year and a half, and received 11 articles indexed by international prestigious citation indexes. She was also ranked high in the Web of Science (WoS) Highly Cited in Field ranking.”

Gayretli said as follows: 
 

“Council of Higher Education introduced new criteria to improve the quality of international faculty members. That academics who have graduated or worked from world-class universities preferred Turkish universities has raised the quality of education, and the publications in Q1, Q2 class journals has encouraged other faculty members. Developed countries have stepped into a news age in technology and economy by bringing academics who have achieved success abroad to the departments such as robotics and virtual reality that they opened. We need to catch up with the age by going through the way like other countries did before without being late in education and technology with the support of international faculty members who are rare in Turkey and have had achievements abroad on current occupations of our age.”

Noting that he determined sustainability as a priority for research and education, IGU Chairman of Board of Trustees Abdulkadir Gayretli listed the professions of the future as follows:
 

“Future professions such as Augmented Reality Developer, Virtual Reality Developer, Smart Building Expert, Blockchain Developer, Digital Rehabilitation Expert, Drone Pilot, Software Developer are waiting for students and academics in the near future. Turkey's higher education is the center of attraction with not only the students but also the academics due to its farsightedness.”