Universities by Research h-index in Guatemala

Universities and colleges ranked by OpenAlex's institutional h-index, which combines publication volume and citation impact. This is a research metric, not a measure of teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.

📅 2026📏 h-index13 entries🇬🇹 See all of this country’s rankings →

All entries · 13

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

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala1,916 works

103

Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala6,667 works

102

Universidad Francisco Marroquín1,085 works

Galileo University339 works

Universidad Rafael Landívar599 works

Universidad Mariano Galvez210 works

Universidad del Istmo385 works

Mesoamerican University41 works

Centro Universitario de Occidente97 works

Universidad Panamericana396 works

Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano12 works

Probigua6 works

Universidad Rural de Guatemala7 works

Highlights

Within Guatemala, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala ranks first in 2026 with 103, followed by Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (102) and Universidad Francisco Marroquín (64).

The top two are virtually level: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala differ by less than 1%.

Across 13 entries, values run from 103 (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala) to 1 (Universidad Rural de Guatemala), with a median of 17.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research h-index, 2026. Unit: h-index.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research h-index · 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.