Istanbul Gelisim University - The number of international publications increased more than 75 percent in a year

The number of international publications increased more than 75 percent in a year

According to the Web of Science (WoS) data, Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) increased the number of international indexed publications from 89 in 2018 to 156 in 2019 and achieved an increase rate of more than 75 percent. IGU has increased the total number of publications in internationally respected citation indexes such as Web of Science and Scopus to 541.

Referring to the fact that Head of Higher Education Council (YÖK) Dr. Yekta Saraç has reorganized 'The Procedures and Principles Regarding the Employment of International Faculty Member’ and emphasizing the importance of being internationalized, IGU Chairman of the Board of Trustees Abdulkadir Gayretli said: “Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia known as the Oscars for the Higher Education, we shortlisted as finalist from Turkey in 2019. We ranked among the top eight universities in the world in the 'Internationalization Strategy of the Year' category. We have over 1000 native-international academicians and more than 25 thousand native-international students. We reflect our progress to the international publications in recent years. In particular, we put forward an important vision of internationalization.”

“WE HAVE AN APPROVED PUBLICATION FROM THE MINISTRY”

Stating that the university has tens of Research Centers and 5 Modern Libraries with millions of printed and electronic resources, Gayretli spoke: “We also have a Publishing House, which stands out in R&D activities and has a Publishing Certificate approved by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as well as a number of patents.”

“DISTRIBUTING FOR FREE”

Gayretli ended his speech as follows:

“We publish 75 books and 4 Journals, 3 of which are regularly published with academic refereed and 1 popular non-refereed within IGU Publishing, and we are taking decisive steps towards becoming a major player in the publishing industry. We distribute the Journals free of charge to all universities and related institutions in Turkey. Nearly 20% of the published books can be downloaded directly from the university website. Books on sale are available from all prestigious publishers.”