Universities by Research Publications in New Zealand

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📏 works38 entries🇳🇿 See all of this country’s rankings →

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Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (works, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.

University of Auckland10,311,640 citations

139,776

University of Otago6,897,227 citations

90,993

Victoria University of Wellington1,997,748 citations

60,745

Massey University2,885,594 citations

53,182

University of Canterbury2,624,868 citations

52,173

University of Waikato1,440,412 citations

30,457

Auckland University of Technology8,152,827 citations

29,821

Lincoln University765,190 citations

13,190

Unitec Institute of Technology63,579 citations

3,375

Eastern Institute of Technology23,423 citations

1,247

Otago Polytechnic17,233 citations

1,156

Waikato Institute of Technology19,962 citations

1,085

Ara Institute of Canterbury16,937 citations

824

Open Polytechnic7,192 citations

675

Manukau Institute of Technology17,660 citations

653

Te Pūkenga6,008 citations

527

Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology6,584 citations

362

Wellington Institute of Technology3,833 citations

329

Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology25,866 citations

299

New Zealand College of Chiropractic9,912 citations

295

Southern Institute of Technology2,044 citations

189

Universal College of Learning5,504 citations

189

Media Design School580 citations

173

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa722 citations

161

Auckland Institute of Studies3,884 citations

154

Institute of the Pacific United1,793 citations

142

Laidlaw College487 citations

133

Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi1,640 citations

120

Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners2,712 citations

117

Waiariki Institute of Technology4,418 citations

Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand898 citations

Carey Baptist College130 citations

Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design225 citations

Good Shepherd College90 citations

Chelsea Primary School230 citations

Waikato-Tainui College for Research and Development276 citations

Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School6 citations

Mt Albert Primary School50 citations

Highlights

Within New Zealand, University of Auckland ranks first in 2026 with 139,776, followed by University of Otago (90,993) and Victoria University of Wellington (60,745).

University of Auckland is 1.5 times higher than University of Otago, the runner-up.

Across 38 entries, values run from 139,776 (University of Auckland) to 6 (Mt Albert Primary School), with a median of 297.

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.

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Highlights

Within New Zealand, University of Auckland ranks first in 2026 with 139,776, followed by University of Otago (90,993) and Victoria University of Wellington (60,745).

University of Auckland is 1.5 times higher than University of Otago, the runner-up.

Across 38 entries, values run from 139,776 (University of Auckland) to 6 (Mt Albert Primary School), with a median of 297.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Publications, 2026. Unit: works.