Ayşe Buğra, a prominent emeritus academic from Boğaziçi University, was included in the list of the most influential scientists in the world, created every year by scientists from Stanford University.
The latest list of the world’s most influential scientists, created annually by scientists from Stanford University, was recently published by Elsevier, the 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.
One of the 1,150 scientists from Turkey included in the list is Ayşe Buğra, a prominent emeritus academic from Boğaziçi University. Buğra had been targeted by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who earlier called her “a woman who is among the provocateurs and who is the wife of Osman Kavala, a representative of Soros.”
On February 5, Erdoğan attempted to insult both her and Kavala when he was commenting on the ongoing Boğaziçi University protests. “The wife of Osman Kavala is a woman who is among the provocateurs at Boğaziçi University,” Erdoğan said.
Buğra was asked what she felt when she heard about Erdoğan’s remarks against her and her husband, who has been behind bars for over three years accused of ‘financing and orchestrating” the Gezi Park protests of 2013 and getting involved in the 15 July 2016 coup attempt.
“Of course you get surprised. This is unacceptable. I’m deeply shaken, but we can’t rule out anything anymore. Anything can happen,” Buğra told the daily Sözcü.