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Universities by Research Publications in Jamaica

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📏 works8 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 the West Indies813,100 citations
16,653
2
University of the West Indies System78,885 citations
1,839
3
University of Technology, Jamaica10,867 citations
774
4
Northern Caribbean University1,577 citations
262
5
University of the Commonwealth Caribbean421 citations
99
6
Mico University College467 citations
66
7
International University of the Caribbean111 citations
19
8
Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts18 citations
11

Highlights

Within Jamaica, University of the West Indies ranks first in 2026 with 16,653, followed by University of the West Indies System (1,839) and University of Technology, Jamaica (774).

University of the West Indies is 9.1 times higher than University of the West Indies System, the runner-up.

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.