Universities Are Judged by Rankings. But Who Judges the Rankings?
Güleda Doğan is a researcher at Hacettepe University, Department of Information Management. She has a background in Statistics and completed her PhD on university rankings. Her research focuses on university rankings, research evaluation, bibliometrics, scholarly communication, open science, open access, research integrity, and questionable publishing practices.
Between 2022 and 2024, she led a national project on promoting responsible approaches to university rankings. She is also involved in a TÜBİTAK-funded research project focusing on questionable publishing and research integrity.
She has 12 years of editorial experience in a Turkish journal in the field of library and information science and has served on the editorial board of ARIST since 2022. She has contributed to EU-funded projects on open access policies and has provided consultancy on open access, open science, and related issues for institutions such as the Council of Higher Education and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye.
Güleda Doğan currently serves on the Board of Directors of FORCE11 and is a member of the ASIS&T Professional Development Committee. She is also a co-founder of the Scholarly Communication Network, which aims to support collaboration and communication among early-career scholars.