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Universities by Research Publications in North Korea

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
Kim Il-sung University45,207 citations
1,913
2
Kim Chaek University of Technology21,586 citations
1,116
3
Pyongyang University of Science and Technology4,230 citations
213
4
Pyongyang Medical University908 citations
201
5
Institute of Natural Science716 citations
122
6
Hamhŭng University of Chemical Industry368 citations
25
7
Rajin University of Marine Transport6 citations
10
8
Huichon University of Telecommunications7 citations
1

Highlights

Within North Korea, Kim Il-sung University ranks first in 2026 with 1,913, followed by Kim Chaek University of Technology (1,116) and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (213).

Kim Il-sung University is 1.7 times higher than Kim Chaek University of Technology, 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.