Universities by Research Publications in Cuba

Universities and colleges ranked by the number of scholarly works indexed by OpenAlex. This measures research volume, not teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.

📅 2026📏 works33 entries🇨🇺 See all of this country’s rankings →

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Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (works, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.

University of Havana369,406 citations

22,617

Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (UCLV)117,260 citations

10,815

Universidad de Oriente57,802 citations

9,413

Polytechnic José Antonio Echeverría32,606 citations

7,328

University of Camagüey18,000 citations

7,234

Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana18,438 citations

6,794

University of Pinar del Río13,211 citations

6,007

University of Holguín15,058 citations

4,078

University of Granma11,370 citations

3,809

University of Matanzas34,195 citations

3,528

University of Cienfuegos19,575 citations

3,380

Universidad de Ciego de Ávila22,618 citations

2,691

University of Information Science8,097 citations

2,358

Universidad de Las Tunas1,958 citations

2,330

Universidad de Guantánamo1,644 citations

2,282

Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Cienfuegos6,505 citations

2,202

University of Sancti Spíritus José Martí Pérez6,357 citations

2,182

Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba2,227 citations

2,052

Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas Enrique José Varona1,277 citations

1,727

Agricultural University of Havana11,585 citations

1,666

Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Holguín2,218 citations

1,355

Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas3,434 citations

1,329

Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología11,515 citations

1,232

Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences22,002 citations

1,224

Universidad Pedagógica de Pinar del Río Rafael María de Mendive166 citations

1,128

Latin American School of Medicine3,397 citations

819

Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Sancti Spíritus945 citations

779

Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Ciego de Ávila724 citations

439

Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas José de la Luz Caballero344 citations

435

Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas Félix Varela Morales153 citations

397

Instituto Central de Ciencias Pedagógicas293 citations

192

Universidad de la Isla de la Juventud "Jesús Montané Oropesa"204 citations

147

University of Pedagogical Sciences5 citations

Highlights

Within Cuba, University of Havana ranks first in 2026 with 22,617, followed by Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (UCLV) (10,815) and Universidad de Oriente (9,413).

University of Havana is 2.1 times higher than Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (UCLV), the runner-up.

Across 33 entries, values run from 22,617 (University of Havana) to 21 (University of Pedagogical Sciences), with a median of 2,182.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Publications, 2026. Unit: works.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Publications · CC0 1.0 (OpenAlex) · fetched Oct 17, 2026 — OpenAlex indexes scholarly works and citations. Coverage and citation practices vary by institution and field; this is a research measure, not a ranking of teaching quality.

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Highlights

Within Cuba, University of Havana ranks first in 2026 with 22,617, followed by Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (UCLV) (10,815) and Universidad de Oriente (9,413).

University of Havana is 2.1 times higher than Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (UCLV), the runner-up.

Across 33 entries, values run from 22,617 (University of Havana) to 21 (University of Pedagogical Sciences), with a median of 2,182.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Publications, 2026. Unit: works.