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The scientometric analysis of the research has become one of the most used methods to assess the research performance of the scholars, departments, faculties, universities, countries, and journals in recent years. However, there has not been an extensive scientometric evaluation of the institutional research carried out by the universities in the Ege (Aegean) region of Turkey with wide ranging socio-economic development indices, to examine the development of the research over time. Hence, the purpose of this study was to carry out a scientometric evaluation of the research performed by these universities using three indices in a series of three papers. In the first part of these serial papers, it was found that there were 16 universities with 131 colleges and faculties founded in 8 cities between 1955 and 2010 and there were 5,899 senior members of the academic staff employed in these universities, comprising 13% of the national academic force. One, one, seven, five, and three of these universities were pre-1980, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010 universities, respectively and 25%, 23%, 44%, and 7% of the regional academic force was employed by the pre-1980, 1980, 1990, and 2000 universities, respectively. The 2010 universities had no academic staff as of November 2010. Ege University was the first established university of the region in Izmir in 1955. The top university was Ege University (25.2%) followed by Dokuz Eylul University (23.3%), Adnan Menderes University (8.7%), Pamukkale University (8.2%), and Afyon Kocatepe University (7.3%). These universities were founded in the Ege region of Turkey with varying socio-economic development indices (SEDI) ranging from 3 for Izmir to 43 for Kutahya and Izmir had 9 regional universities whilst the other 7 cities had one university each. The state universities adapted an aggressive expansionist policy whilst the foundation universities did not. In this respect, Dokuz Eylul University's rapid expansion was especially notable becoming the second largest university of the region although it was founded in 1982. The biggest ten faculties employed 34.2% of the academic force. The Faculties of Medicine were the largest faculty group employing 20.1% of the regional academic force. The results found in the first part suggest that there was a close structure-research performance relationships for these universities hinting the strong effect of the formal and informal rules adapted by these universities on their respective research productivity following North's new institutional theoretical framework |
