Universities by Recent Research Citedness in El Salvador

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 work22 entries🇸🇻 See all of this country’s rankings →

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Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (mean citations per work); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.

Universidad Politécnica de El Salvador190 works

1.72

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales306 works

0.73

Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas6,473 works

0.59

Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador825 works

0.56

University of El Salvador3,247 works

0.56

Universidad Don Bosco754 works

0.52

Universidad Modular Abierta15 works

0.50

Universidad Monseñor Oscar Arnulfo Romero3 works

0.50

Instituto Especializado Hospital El Salvador14 works

0.47

Francisco Gavidia University315 works

0.45

Universidad Dr. Andrés Bello174 works

0.38

Universidad Católica de El Salvador215 works

0.36

Universidad Autónoma de Santa Ana77 works

0.30

Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador445 works

0.29

Universidad Salvadoreña Alberto Masferrer135 works

0.26

Jose Matias Delgado University283 works

0.26

Universidad de Oriente611 works

0.17

Universidad Gerardo Barrios91 works

0.17

Universidad Luterana Salvadoreña34 works

0.14

Universidad Pedagógica de El Salvador54 works

0.11

Universidad de Sonsonate81 works

0.10

Universidad Técnica Latinoamericana29 works

0.08

Highlights

Within El Salvador, Universidad Politécnica de El Salvador ranks first in 2026 with 1.72, followed by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (0.73) and Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (0.59).

Universidad Politécnica de El Salvador is 2.4 times higher than Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, the runner-up.

Across 22 entries, values run from 1.72 (Universidad Politécnica de El Salvador) to 0.08 (Universidad Técnica Latinoamericana), with a median of 0.37.

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.

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Highlights

Universidad Politécnica de El Salvador is 2.4 times higher than Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, the runner-up.

Across 22 entries, values run from 1.72 (Universidad Politécnica de El Salvador) to 0.08 (Universidad Técnica Latinoamericana), with a median of 0.37.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Recent citedness, 2026. Unit: mean citations per work.