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Universities by Research i10-index in Malawi

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-index12 entries🇲🇼 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (i10-index, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
University of Malawi8,589 works
7,994
2
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences2,464 works
1,244
3
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources2,058 works
1,094
4
Mzuzu University1,422 works
521
5
Malawi University of Science and Technology1,053 works
269
6
University of Livingstonia190 works
42
7
The Catholic University of Malawi134 works
23
8
DMI-St. John the Baptist University280 works
18
9
Malawi School of Government19 works
10
10
Malawi Adventist University48 works
8
11
Unicaf University164 works
8
12
Nalikule College of Education35 works
7

Highlights

Within Malawi, University of Malawi ranks first in 2026 with 7,994, followed by Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (1,244) and Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (1,094).

University of Malawi is 6.4 times higher than Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, the runner-up.

Across 12 entries, values run from 7,994 (University of Malawi) to 7 (Nalikule College of Education), with a median of 33.

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.