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Universities by Research Publications in Malta

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📏 works10 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 Malta584,816 citations
30,111
2
Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology12,481 citations
805
3
Middlesex University Malta482 citations
61
4
EIM - European Institute of Management353 citations
56
5
IDEA College, Malta50 citations
32
6
IMO International Maritime Law Institute198 citations
29
7
College of Remote and Offshore Medicine53 citations
28
8
Open Institute of Technology13 citations
14
9
GIOYA Higher Education Institution17 citations
4
10
Malta Leadership Institute50 citations
2

Highlights

Within Malta, University of Malta ranks first in 2026 with 30,111, followed by Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (805) and Middlesex University Malta (61).

University of Malta is 37 times higher than Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, the runner-up.

Across 10 entries, values run from 30,111 (University of Malta) to 2 (Malta Leadership Institute), with a median of 31.

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.