Prof. Taner Kemal Erdağ graduated from Ege University School of Medicine in 1990 and completed his residency in Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, in 1994. After fulfilling his military service and working in private practice, he joined Dokuz Eylul University in 1999, where he served until his retirement in 2023.

His main field of interest is pediatric otolaryngology. He was President of the Turkish Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery from 2018 to 2023. Prof. Erdağ has published 93 peer-reviewed articles and presented 192 papers at national and international meetings.

Since 2015, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology and served as Section Editor for the Balkan Medical Journal (2015–2021). He chaired the Turkish Chapter of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) from 2023 to 2025.

Nuray BAYAR MULUK

Professor in Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine Otolaryngology Department  

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3602-9289

E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

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Professor Nuray BAYAR MULUK was graduaded from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey in 1990 with  general academical mean was 3.65 (Over 4) and completed her residency on ENT Diseases in Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine in 1994. She became Assistant Professor in 1997, Associate Professor in 2003 and Professor in 2008 in Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine, ENT Department. She has been working as a professor in Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine, ENT Department since that time till the current time. Her special interests are: Rhinology & Allergy, Cancer, Neuroscience, Occupational Medicine, and Research. She also has a certificate of occupational physician.

She is ICOH (International Comission on Occupational Health) member for 2021-2023 and joined ICOH Neurotoxicology and Psychophysiology Scientific Committee (18.11.2022), and Vibration and Noise Scientific Committee (13.12.2022). She also participated in MC and WGs member of the COST actions.

She has published 401 international and 77 national papers and she is an author or co-editor of 16 international books, 7 national books and 2 translated books; and a guest editor of the supplements in 4 SCI-Expanded Journal (1st order-2 guest editorship and 2nd order-2 guest editorship). She has written 190 international book chapters, 52 national book-chapters, and 11 translated book chapters. She has 3293 citations in international journals covered by Web of Science and 3170 citations without self-citations. Her h index is 26 (from Web of Science). She conducted 9 projects regarded on ENT. She has been ranked 198.861st in the annual impact category (for the year 2023) of The World's Most Influential Scıentists according to the data prepared in collaboration with Stanford University and Elsevier, and published on September 16, 2024 that includes a total of 223,153 scientists who fall within the top 2% of the global ranking. In the field of Otorhinolaryngology, she has been ranked 816th worldwide (out of 1,051 ENT specialists); and 3rd in Turkey (out of 4 ENT specialists). On ScholarGPS in 2024, she has been ranked 2nd in Turkey and 61st in the world in the field of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases).

She performed lots of administrative tasks. She is a President of Ear, Nose and Throat Department in Kirikkale University Faculty of Medicine in the current time. She was a Vice Dean of Kirikkale University Faculty of Health Sciences. She was a Principal Representative of Kirikkale University in “ Kirikkale Governor's Project Support Office Office”. She is Kirikkale University Scientific Research Projects Committee Member. Additionally, she serves as a member of Quality Committee at Kirikkale University.   She was Kırıkkale University Education Commission Member. Appointed as Advisor to the Rector responsible for Research and Development in Kırıkkale University. She is Vice President and Board Member of Kırıkkale University  Cancer Research and Application Center.