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Universities by Recent Research Citedness in Malawi

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 work12 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
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences2,464 works
3.98
2
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources2,058 works
2.34
3
University of Malawi8,589 works
1.73
4
Nalikule College of Education35 works
1.69
5
Malawi University of Science and Technology1,053 works
1.68
6
University of Livingstonia190 works
1.45
7
The Catholic University of Malawi134 works
1.22
8
Malawi Adventist University48 works
1.19
9
Mzuzu University1,422 works
1.13
10
DMI-St. John the Baptist University280 works
0.68
11
Unicaf University164 works
0.51
12
Malawi School of Government19 works
0.14

Highlights

Within Malawi, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences ranks first in 2026 with 3.98, followed by Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (2.34) and University of Malawi (1.73).

Kamuzu University of Health Sciences is 1.7 times higher than Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the runner-up.

Across 12 entries, values run from 3.98 (Kamuzu University of Health Sciences) to 0.14 (Malawi School of Government), with a median of 1.34.

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.