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Universities by Recent Research Citedness in Malta

Universities and colleges ranked by OpenAlex's mean citedness for works published in the last two years. Recent citation rates vary by field and are not a measure of teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.

📅 2026📏 mean citations per work9 entries🇲🇹 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (mean citations per work); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
University of Malta30,111 works
3.02
2
IMO International Maritime Law Institute29 works
3.00
3
Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology805 works
2.15
4
Malta Leadership Institute2 works
2.00
5
GIOYA Higher Education Institution4 works
1.25
6
College of Remote and Offshore Medicine28 works
1.15
7
Open Institute of Technology14 works
0.93
8
IDEA College, Malta32 works
0.89
9
EIM - European Institute of Management56 works
0.48

Highlights

Within Malta, University of Malta ranks first in 2026 with 3.02, followed by IMO International Maritime Law Institute (3.00) and Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (2.15).

The top two are virtually level: University of Malta and IMO International Maritime Law Institute differ by less than 1%.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Recent citedness, 2026. Unit: mean citations per work.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Recent citedness · 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.