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Universities by Recent Research Citedness in Estonia

Universities and colleges ranked by OpenAlex's mean citedness for works published in the last two years. Recent citation rates vary by field and are not a measure of teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.

📅 2026📏 mean citations per work15 entries🇪🇪 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (mean citations per work); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
University of Tartu48,313 works
4.36
2
Tallinn Health University of Applied Sciences157 works
4.00
3
Tallinn University of Technology23,524 works
3.37
4
Estonian University of Life Sciences8,249 works
2.64
5
Tallinn University7,061 works
2.48
6
Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences228 works
2.36
7
Estonian Business School673 works
1.92
8
Estonian National Defense College175 works
1.68
9
Tartu Health Care College132 works
1.66
10
Estonian Aviation Academy65 works
1.26
11
Estonian Academy of Arts303 works
1.17
12
Informaatika ja Arvutustehnika Instituut9 works
1.00
13
Tallinn University of Applied Sciences193 works
0.90
14
Estonian Academy of Security Sciences258 works
0.30
15
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre200 works
0.14

Highlights

Within Estonia, University of Tartu ranks first in 2026 with 4.36, followed by Tallinn Health University of Applied Sciences (4.00) and Tallinn University of Technology (3.37).

Across 15 entries, values run from 4.36 (University of Tartu) to 0.14 (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), with a median of 1.68.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Recent citedness, 2026. Unit: mean citations per work.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Recent citedness · 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.