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Universities by Recent Research Citedness in Guatemala

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 work10 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
Galileo University339 works
4.95
2
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala1,916 works
1.54
3
Centro Universitario de Occidente97 works
1.50
4
Universidad Francisco Marroquín1,085 works
1.30
5
Universidad Rafael Landívar599 works
1.01
6
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala6,667 works
0.73
7
Universidad Mariano Galvez210 works
0.58
8
Mesoamerican University41 works
0.38
9
Universidad del Istmo385 works
0.35
10
Universidad Panamericana396 works
0.34

Highlights

Within Guatemala, Galileo University ranks first in 2026 with 4.95, followed by Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (1.54) and Centro Universitario de Occidente (1.50).

Galileo University is 3.2 times higher than Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, the runner-up.

Across 10 entries, values run from 4.95 (Galileo University) to 0.34 (Universidad Panamericana), with a median of 0.87.

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.