Projects

Ongoing projects on scholarly communication and related subjects:

Project title: Türkçe bilimsel literatür için sürdürülebilir açık atıf verisi (Sustainable open citations for scientific literature in Turkish), June 2022 – May 2024

  • Funded by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TÜBİTAK 2218 (TUBITAK 2218 national postdoctoral fellowship).
  • PI: Zehra Taşkın

Project title: Uluslararası üniversite sıralamalarının “sorumlu araştırma” bağlamında değerlendirilmesi (Evaluation of international university rankings in the context of “responsible research“), June 2022 – May 2024

  • Funded by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TÜBİTAK 2218 (TUBITAK 2218 national postdoctoral fellowship).
  • PI: Güleda Doğan

Ongoing advisory roles:

  • Institutional advisor for the Higher Education Council, Turkey – Güleda Doğan
  • Member of the Higher Education Council of Turkey, University Libraries Working Group, Güleda Doğan
  • Member of the Higher Education Council of Turkey, Research Universities Working Group, Güleda Doğan
  • Open Science Policy Advisor, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Zehra Taşkın & Güleda Doğan

Ongoing theses/dissertations:

  • “The effect of current academic performance assessment systems on the predatory journal preferences of Turkish scholars”, Onur Öztürk, MA Thesis, planned to complete in June 2023.

Completed projects:

Project title: Creating a content-based citation analysis system for English and Polish, November 2019 – October 2021

  • Funded by: Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), ULAM Program
  • PI: Zehra Taşkın

Project title: Uluslararası üniversite sıralama sistemlerinin değerlendirilmesi (Evaluation of international university ranking systems), 2016-2018

  • Funded by: Hacettepe University, Scientific Projects Unit, Outstanding Successful Young Scientist Grant
  • PI: Umut Al, Investigators: Güleda Doğan, Zehra Taşkın.
  • The project was based on Güleda Doğan’s Ph.D. dissertation.

Project title: Origins of life research: a bibliometric approach, 2016-2018

  • Funded by: Earth-Life Science Institute Origins Network (ELSI-EON) Seed Grant
  • PI: Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu, Investigator: Zehra Taşkın.

Project title: Türkçe atıflar için içerik tabanlı atıf analizi modeli tasarımı (Designing content based citation analysis model for Turkish citations) – 2015-2018

  • Funded by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 1001 Program
  • PI: Umut Al, Scholarship holders: Zehra Taşkın, Güleda Doğan, Kardelen Düzgören
  • The project was based on Zehra Taşkın’s Ph.D. dissertation

Project title: PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research), 2013-2016

  • Funded by: FP7
  • Investigator: Güleda Doğan

Project title: MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network), 2011-2013

  • Funded by: FP7
  • Investigator: Güleda Doğan

Project title:  Türkiye’nin bilimsel yayınlarının sosyal ağ analizi yöntemiyle değerlendirilmesi (The evaluation of scientific publications of Turkey using social network analysis method) – 2010-2012

  • Funded by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 1001 Program
  • PI: Umut Al, Scholarship holder: Zehra Taşkın