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🎓 Top Research Universities in Tajikistan

Universities and colleges in Tajikistan ranked by the total citations their research has received (OpenAlex).

📅 2026📏 citations18 entries🇹🇯 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (citations, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan2,611 papers
42,487
2
Tajik State Medical University1,222 papers
11,239
3
Technological University of Tajikistan830 papers
4,089
4
Tajik National University1,112 papers
3,699
5
Tajik Technical University named after academic M.S.Osimi691 papers
2,554
6
Moscow State University288 papers
1,715
7
Tajik Agrarian University Shirinsho Shotemur234 papers
1,649
8
Tajik State Pedagogical University209 papers
425
9
Khujand State University419 papers
422
10
Finance and Economics Institute of Tajikistan64 papers
415
11
Tajik State University of Commerce112 papers
263
12
Russian-Tajik Slavonic University224 papers
218
13
Tajik State University of Law Business and Politics82 papers
37
14
Khatlon State Medical University28 papers
34
15
Tajik State Institute of Languages14 papers
21
16
Tajik Pedagogical Institute in the Rasht District4 papers
6
17
Tajik National Conservatory5 papers
4
18
Kulyab State University named after Abuabdullo Rudaki20 papers
2

Highlights

Within Tajikistan, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan ranks first in 2026 with 42,487, followed by Tajik State Medical University (11,239) and Technological University of Tajikistan (4,089).

Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan is 3.8 times higher than Tajik State Medical University, the runner-up.

Across 18 entries, values run from 42,487 (Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan) to 2 (Kulyab State University named after Abuabdullo Rudaki), with a median of 419.

Source: OpenAlex, citations received by each institution's papers, 2026. Unit: citations.

Source: OpenAlex, citations received by each institution's papers · CC0 1.0 (OpenAlex) · fetched Oct 13, 2026 — Counts every citation to papers by authors affiliated with the institution, so large and old universities score high. It measures research impact, not teaching quality.