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Universities by Research Publications in South Sudan

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📏 works8 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 Juba12,452 citations
1,556
2
Bridge University11,362 citations
446
3
University of Bahr El-Ghazal1,538 citations
248
4
Upper Nile University531 citations
235
5
Catholic University of South Sudan1 citations
116
6
Rumbek University273 citations
38
7
John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology105 citations
35
8
Akobo Heritage and Memorial University1 citations
2

Highlights

Within South Sudan, University of Juba ranks first in 2026 with 1,556, followed by Bridge University (446) and University of Bahr El-Ghazal (248).

University of Juba is 3.5 times higher than Bridge University, the runner-up.

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.