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Gulen. Several emigre Turkish scholars told Times Higher India tops in number of Young University Rankings 2022
Education that the most recent sackings at Bogazici are
particularly troubling because they signal that even mild
political dissent won’t be tolerated in universities. Countries / regions Number of institutions institution Rank
“This latest event makes many educators like me hesitate Top
to return and work in Turkey,” says Bogazici graduate Elif India 40 JSS Academy of Higher Education and
Balin, now an assistant professor at San Francisco State Research -70
University. “This constant attack on institutional inde- Turkey 40 Koç University -89
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Iran
67
37
pendence, academic freedom, job security and the right to United
peaceful protest, along with filling administrative and aca- Kingdom 37 Brighton and Sussex Medical School 32
demic positions with non-elected and partisan members, Spain 32 Pompeu Fabra University 16
makes many people — especially young people in Turkey France 24 Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL Research
— question the quality of their education and diminishes University Paris 1
their hope for the future,” laments Balin. Australia 23 University of Technology Sydney 8
Egypt 17 Aswan University -126
UNITED KINGDOM Taiwan 17 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 49
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies - Pisa
Italy
16
14
Young University Rankings 2022 Japan 16 University of Occupational and
Environmental Health, Japan -102
THE INSTITUTIONS IN THE TIMES HIGHER Brazil 14 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp),
Education Young University Rankings are united University Fortaleza (UNIFOR) 251-300
by their recent foundation dates; only universities Pakistan 14 Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan 187
aged 50 years and under are included in the annual list of Malaysia 13 Universiti Teknologi Petronas -119
the world’s top newcomers in higher education. But the Saudi Arabia 12 Alfaisal University -36
stories and circumstances around their creation are very Chile 11 Universidad Autónoma de Chile -144
different. China 11 Southern University of Science and 13
Technology (SUSTech)

There are institutions that already seem to be such an
established part of the global higher education landscape.
For example, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2000 and 2019 had been
or the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It’s published again in another
hard to believe they are only three decades old. outlet, usually by an author
But global shifts are taking place. On the one hand, Asia linked to the original article.
is becoming a more prominent region in the ranking, with Overall, 70,406 papers
India and Turkey now leading the list in terms of represen- were identified as dupli-
tation. On the other, it is the first time an institution in the cates — having a text overlap
continent has not led the ranking since 2017; this spot is of at least two-thirds with
taken by one of France’s collegiate universities. another paper — of which
It is willingness to innovate and challenge the status quo more than 5,000 appeared
that makes the THE ranking of the world’s top young uni- three or more times. In sev-
versities something truly worth celebrating. eral cases, papers were re- Yury Chekhovich
published on more than 20
RUSSIA occasions, with one article appearing 27 times in different
New genre plagiarisation formats.
Yury Chekhovich, chief executive of the Moscow-based
ABOUT ONE IN 20 PAPERS RECENTLY pub- anti-plagiarism checking company Antiplagiat, who un-
lished in Russian journals is an exact or near du- dertook the research with his colleague Andrey Khazov,
plicate of an existing article, with some pieces re- told Times Higher Education that the analysis is impor-
produced as many as 27 times across different publications, tant because it exposes the extent of a “very special kind of
according to a study. While the problem of plagiarism in ethical violation”. “We believe that the number of detected
Russian academic papers is well- known, having resulted in cases found is unprecedented,” says Dr. Chekhovich, who
hundreds of retractions in recent years, an investigation re- explains that similar studies had identified far lower rates
veals that a different form of text recycling. Self-plagiarism of duplication.
may also be rife. In some cases, authors republished papers from years
According to a Journal of Informetrics paper that anal- earlier, but often the article is published in different outlets
ysed 3.8 million scientific articles in Russian-language pub- in the same year as a result of the “purposeful sending of
lications, about 3.9 percent of papers published between new manuscripts to two or more journals,” says the study.

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