13 Civil Engineering Faculty Academics in the World’s Most Influential Scientists List

by Behlül Kula | Nov 01, 2021
While 50 scientists from ITU were included in the list of the most influential scientists in the world, created every year by scientists from Stanford University, 13 names from Civil Engineering Faculty were included.

While 50 scientists from ITU were included in the list of the most influential scientists in the world, created every year by scientists from Stanford University, 13 names from 
Civil Engineering Faculty were included.

  • Prof. Dr. İdil Arslan Alaton - Environmental Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. İsmail Koyuncu - Environmental Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Tuğba Ölmez Hancı - Environmental Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Orhan İnce - Environmental Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Hikmet Kerem Cığızoğlu - Civil Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Hafzullah Aksoy - Civil Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Ercan Kahya - Civil Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Altunkaynak - Civil Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Hilmi Berk Çelikoğlu - Civil Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Ali Osman Atahan - Civil Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Alper İlki - Civil Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Mehmet Özger - Civil Engineering
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özkan Şengül - Civil Engineering

The latest list of the world's most influential scientists, created annually by scientists from Stanford University, was recently published by Elsevier, a Netherlands-based publishing company specializing in scientific, technical and medical content.

The ranking was made in the two categories of “career-long impact” and “annual impact”. While creating the list, international criteria such as the number of high-quality publications, the impact of the journal in which the publications are published, the number of patents, the number of citations, h-index, hm-index, the number of articles, the number of cited articles and the impact of the journal in which they were published were used.

In the list where the publications of 2020 are ranked according to these criteria, a total of 190,063 scientists were evaluated in the "annual impact" category. While 1,150 scientists from Turkey were included in the list of the most influential scientists in the world, 50 names from ITU were included. ITU maintained its success last year in terms of the number of scientists included in the list and ranked first in Turkey.

In the list of the most influential scientists in the world, 4 academics from ITU were in the top 100, 19 in the top 500, and 30 in the top 1,000.

ITU ranks 1st in the last 5 years according to number of citations

52 scientists from ITU were included in the list among 186,177 people evaluated in the "career-long impact" category, where career analysis is made and the world's most influential scientists are ranked according to the citation impact of the last five years of publications.

In this category, in which a total of 828 scientists from Turkey are ranked according to the citation impact of the last 5 years of publications, ITU also ranked first in Turkey with the number of 52 scientists included in the list. In the category of "career-long impact", 4 scientists from ITU were in the top 100, 6 in the top 200, 14 in the top 500, and 32 in the top 1,000.

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İTÜ Faculty of Civil Engineering

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It can be accepted that the history of ITU Civil Engineering Faculty was commenced in 1727 by the establishment of Humbarahane during the era of Damat İbrahim Paşa. However, this attempt was to no avail due to the martyrization of the studwents of this school by the Janissaries.


In 1734, during the grand viziership of Topal Osman Paşa, classes related to Civil Engineering was being taught in Hendesehane, which was founded in Üsküdar. Similarly, this school was also closed after three years due to the opposition of the Janissaries. The reasons of the tragedy that occured in Battle of Chesma, 1770 were inadequacy of the ships and the ignorance of the Ottoman Navy.


Although the Atlantic Map (1513) and the Map of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea (1523) by Piri Reis were the leading pieces of the era, Ottoman viziers were so ignorant that they claimed it was impossible for the Russian Baltic Fleet to reach the Mediterranean Sea assuming that there were no sea connection. With the proposal from Gazi Hasan Paşa and Baron de Tott, Mühendishane-i Bahri-i Humayun was established during the time of Sultan Mustafa III, aiming to train naval construction engineers. Since Ottoman Empire did not have any engineering schools at the time, military engineering classes were taught by French engineers beginning from 1784. French lecturers had to return to their country in 1788 with the increasing suppression from Austria and Russia, which were unwilling for the development and thriving of Ottoman Empire. In 1759, during the Grand Viziership of Koca Ragıp Paşa, Humbarahane was reopened in Karaağaç, Haliç (Golden Horn) and continued to teach even though it was incompetent. In 1792, Lağımcı Ocağı and Humbaracı Ocağı (Guild of Sappers) were established.