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Universities by Research i10-index in North Korea

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-index6 entries🇰🇵 See all of this country’s rankings →
1
Kim Il-sung University1,913 works
1,186
2
Kim Chaek University of Technology1,116 works
573
3
Pyongyang University of Science and Technology213 works
110
4
Pyongyang Medical University201 works
21
5
Institute of Natural Science122 works
15
6
Hamhŭng University of Chemical Industry25 works
10

Highlights

Within North Korea, Kim Il-sung University ranks first in 2026 with 1,186, followed by Kim Chaek University of Technology (573) and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (110).

Kim Il-sung University is 2.1 times higher than Kim Chaek University of Technology, the runner-up.

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.