Erdal Karapınar received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the Graduate School of Natural Applied Sciences, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He is co-author of 3 books and more than 400 papers. In 2020, he was listed among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University. According to Google Scholar, Dr. Karapinar is cited more than 15,800 times. He was ranked as a Highly Cited Researcher for the years 2015-2019, consecutively.