Elsevier and the Council of Higher Education of Türkiye (Yükseköğretim Kurulu, YÖK) have announced that YÖK will adopt Elsevier’s Scopus database as its official tool for monitoring and evaluating research publications, effective from 2026.
Scopus will replace the index previously used in Türkiye’s national academic performance assessments. The change represents a shift toward a research evaluation approach that is more comprehensive, transparent, and aligned with international standards.
The move also supports YÖK’s ambition to strengthen the global visibility and competitiveness of Turkish higher education. By using Scopus’s coverage of peer-reviewed literature across science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, YÖK plans to evaluate research output more holistically and consistently.
Scopus serves as the exclusive source of bibliometric data for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and related analyses and has been used by the QS World University Rankings for research indicators for more than a decade.
Scopus is the world’s largest curated abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. The database contains more than 100 million records from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, including 2.4 billion cited references and over 19.6 million author profiles.
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