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Universities by Research i10-index in Iceland

Universities and colleges ranked by OpenAlex's institutional i10-index, the number of works with at least ten citations. 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📏 i10-index10 entries🇮🇸 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (i10-index, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
University of Iceland32,666 works
31,537
2
Reykjavík University6,542 works
3,765
3
Institute of Earth Sciences2,302 works
2,509
4
University of Akureyri1,862 works
982
5
Agricultural University of Iceland879 works
509
6
Hólar University College502 works
338
7
University Centre of the Westfjords138 works
56
8
Bifröst University222 works
46
9
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies241 works
17
10
Iceland University of the Arts47 works
3

Highlights

Within Iceland, University of Iceland ranks first in 2026 with 31,537, followed by Reykjavík University (3,765) and Institute of Earth Sciences (2,509).

University of Iceland is 8.4 times higher than Reykjavík University, the runner-up.

Across 10 entries, values run from 31,537 (University of Iceland) to 3 (Iceland University of the Arts), with a median of 424.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research i10-index, 2026. Unit: i10-index.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research i10-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.