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Universities by Research Publications in Iceland

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📏 works10 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
University of Iceland2,964,832 citations
32,666
2
Reykjavík University295,901 citations
6,542
3
Institute of Earth Sciences182,699 citations
2,302
4
University of Akureyri71,135 citations
1,862
5
Agricultural University of Iceland37,122 citations
879
6
Hólar University College12,239 citations
502
7
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies788 citations
241
8
Bifröst University2,129 citations
222
9
University Centre of the Westfjords2,655 citations
138
10
Iceland University of the Arts123 citations
47

Highlights

Within Iceland, University of Iceland ranks first in 2026 with 32,666, followed by Reykjavík University (6,542) and Institute of Earth Sciences (2,302).

University of Iceland is 5 times higher than Reykjavík University, the runner-up.

Across 10 entries, values run from 32,666 (University of Iceland) to 47 (Iceland University of the Arts), with a median of 691.

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.