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Universities by Research Publications in Guatemala

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📏 works14 entries🇬🇹 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (works, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala58,466 citations
6,667
2
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala70,267 citations
1,916
3
Universidad Francisco Marroquín17,640 citations
1,085
4
Universidad Rafael Landívar2,882 citations
599
5
Universidad Panamericana1,418 citations
396
6
Universidad del Istmo1,724 citations
385
7
Galileo University5,015 citations
339
8
Universidad Mariano Galvez2,210 citations
210
9
Centro Universitario de Occidente540 citations
97
10
Mesoamerican University2,429 citations
41
11
Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano88 citations
12
12
Universidad Rural de Guatemala71 citations
7
13
Probigua71 citations
6
14
Centro Universitario Ciudad Vieja0 citations
3

Highlights

Within Guatemala, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala ranks first in 2026 with 6,667, followed by Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (1,916) and Universidad Francisco Marroquín (1,085).

Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala is 3.5 times higher than Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, the runner-up.

Across 14 entries, values run from 6,667 (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala) to 3 (Centro Universitario Ciudad Vieja), with a median of 275.

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.