If you type in 'Babol University of Technology" rather than 'Babol Noshirvani University of Technology' into the Scopus search box then the university does have enough publications to meet THE's criteria for inclusion the world rankings.
So it seems that it was those highly cited researchers in engineering that propelled the university into the research impact stratosphere. That, and a rather eccentric methodology.
Check out the two most cited articles on the Google Scholar page of Davood Domiri Ganji, the most prolific researcher from the univerisity:
ReplyDeleteThe first got more than 18000 citations, and the second is almost 3000 citations.
Although these two articles have nothing to do with Davood Domiri Ganji, according to their author lists and their topic, and they are not authored by according to Scopus either. This might be totally unrelated to the THE ranking, but interesting.
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