ITS Research Intelligence

Azerbaijan University Research Rankings

Compare Azerbaijan universities using recent research output, citation impact, growth and a transparent research-performance score.

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 32 index-ready universities in Azerbaijan. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 1,476 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 3,503. The average publication-growth signal is 244.6%. These figures describe the institutions that pass the public quality gate; they are not intended to represent every tertiary institution in the country.

Country rankings are useful for benchmarking because they reduce some of the structural differences that make global comparisons difficult. They still should not be treated as a complete assessment of institutional quality: teaching, student outcomes, funding levels, research field mix and institutional mission are outside this research-performance score. The value of the page is in seeing who is producing research, how that activity is changing, and where citation visibility is concentrated.

Top research universities in Azerbaijan

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Western Caspian University	Azerbaijan	73.1	5,137	27,428	2,080.0%
#2	Azerbaijan State University of Economics	Azerbaijan	72.0	4,359	27,862	139.9%
#3	Khazar University	Azerbaijan	72.0	4,232	15,618	1,092.6%
#4	Baku State University	Azerbaijan	66.8	4,195	8,927	62.1%
#5	Azerbaijan Technical University	Azerbaijan	64.4	2,214	2,566	195.8%
#6	Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University	Azerbaijan	63.7	3,748	5,950	60.3%
#7	Nakhchivan State University	Azerbaijan	62.0	3,338	2,402	485.0%
#8	Azerbaijan Medical University	Azerbaijan	60.9	2,768	3,629	64.5%
#9	Baku Engineering University	Azerbaijan	60.6	969	1,878	312.0%
#10	ADA University	Azerbaijan	60.1	2,972	2,857	12.9%
#11	Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction	Azerbaijan	58.2	1,070	1,274	252.1%
#12	Academy of Public Administration	Azerbaijan	58.2	1,533	855	218.2%
#13	Azerbaijan University	Azerbaijan	57.6	1,305	3,107	34.7%
#14	Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University	Azerbaijan	55.6	1,555	957	118.1%
#15	Institute of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	55.6	1,161	524	285.4%
#16	Odlar Yurdu University	Azerbaijan	53.5	437	729	196.0%
#17	Sumgayit State University	Azerbaijan	52.7	605	474	247.1%
#18	Baku Business University	Azerbaijan	50.6	673	560	111.6%
#19	Azerbaijan International University	Azerbaijan	50.0	171	269	316.7%
#20	National Aviation Academy	Azerbaijan	49.4	731	398	105.4%
#21	Azerbaijan State Agricultural University	Azerbaijan	49.1	800	733	32.5%
#22	Azerbaijan University of Languages	Azerbaijan	48.5	531	196	129.1%
#23	Ganja State University	Azerbaijan	47.4	596	471	38.8%
#24	Nakhchivan University	Azerbaijan	47.3	225	375	438.7%
#25	Baku Higher Oil School	Azerbaijan	47.2	242	333	140.0%
#26	Lankaran State University	Azerbaijan	43.9	180	1,078	-11.8%
#27	Azerbaijan State Marine Academy	Azerbaijan	41.5	481	206	-1.1%
#28	Baku Slavic University	Azerbaijan	41.0	459	88	96.9%
#29	Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute for Doctors named after A. Aliyev	Azerbaijan	39.4	116	77	355.6%
#30	Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	37.3	109	146	35.1%
#31	Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts	Azerbaijan	36.9	163	116	47.3%
#32	Azerbaijan Sports Academy	Azerbaijan	23.0	145	0	135.3%

Transparent methodology

How ITS Research Score v2 is constructed

Every index-ready institution has a base score from recent output, citations, h-index, i10-index and publication growth. After deep enrichment completes, ITS Research Score v2 uses six dimensions: 25% output strength, 30% Research Impact Score, 20% Momentum Score, 10% international-collaboration share, 5% open-access share and 10% topic-diversity signal. Output and citation-scale terms are log-normalized to reduce domination by the largest universities.

Research Impact Score combines citation intensity, h-index, two-year mean citedness when available and i10 visibility. It is intentionally not called field-normalized impact. International collaboration is based on recent works with authors from more than one country. Research diversity is an entropy-based summary of the institution’s leading topic signals, not a department count.

These indicators assess research activity only. They do not measure teaching quality, student experience, employability, reputation, finances or accreditation. Missing data are left missing rather than fabricated.