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Universities by Research h-index in Jamaica

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-index8 entries🇯🇲 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (h-index, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
University of the West Indies16,653 works
248
2
University of the West Indies System1,839 works
123
3
University of Technology, Jamaica774 works
51
4
Northern Caribbean University262 works
21
5
University of the Commonwealth Caribbean99 works
10
6
Mico University College66 works
8
7
International University of the Caribbean19 works
6
8
Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts11 works
1

Highlights

Within Jamaica, University of the West Indies ranks first in 2026 with 248, followed by University of the West Indies System (123) and University of Technology, Jamaica (51).

University of the West Indies is 2 times higher than University of the West Indies System, the runner-up.

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.