Dominican Republic University Research Rankings
Compare Dominican Republic universities using recent research output, citation impact, growth and a transparent research-performance score.
Research landscape
The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 21 index-ready universities in Dominican Republic. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 1,653 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 1,074. The average publication-growth signal is 125.7%. 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 Dominican Republic
| Rank | University | Country | Score | 5-year works | 5-year citations | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Universidad Iberoamericana | Dominican Republic | 63.4 | 1,543 | 6,666 | 31.4% |
| #2 | Universidad Católica Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | 61.5 | 26,187 | 1,204 | -96.7% |
| #3 | Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | 60.2 | 1,201 | 3,024 | 119.7% |
| #4 | Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña | Dominican Republic | 59.7 | 615 | 2,136 | 153.1% |
| #5 | Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra | Dominican Republic | 56.4 | 812 | 3,194 | 35.3% |
| #6 | Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | 56.2 | 1,117 | 3,094 | 3.8% |
| #7 | Universidad Católica del Cibao | Dominican Republic | 47.5 | 199 | 191 | 240.0% |
| #8 | Universidad del Caribe (UNICARIBE) | Dominican Republic | 47.4 | 180 | 226 | 167.5% |
| #9 | Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago | Dominican Republic | 47.4 | 211 | 415 | 52.9% |
| #10 | Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña | Dominican Republic | 47.0 | 636 | 402 | 27.3% |
| #11 | Universidad Tecnológica del Sur | Dominican Republic | 45.7 | 268 | 146 | 369.8% |
| #12 | Universidad Nacional Tecnológica | Dominican Republic | 45.6 | 325 | 141 | 95.5% |
| #13 | Universidad Psicología Industrial Dominicana | Dominican Republic | 44.7 | 157 | 313 | 91.1% |
| #14 | Universidad Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Exactas | Dominican Republic | 44.1 | 144 | 119 | 155.9% |
| #15 | Universidad Católica Nordestana | Dominican Republic | 43.2 | 158 | 166 | 1,081.8% |
| #16 | Universidad Eugenio María de Hostos | Dominican Republic | 41.6 | 223 | 329 | -6.6% |
| #17 | Universidad Central del Este | Dominican Republic | 40.8 | 111 | 113 | 93.9% |
| #18 | Universidad Interamericana | Dominican Republic | 39.6 | 116 | 138 | 63.6% |
| #19 | Universidad Abierta Para Adultos | Dominican Republic | 38.9 | 235 | 145 | -2.1% |
| #20 | Universidad Acción Pro-Educación y Cultura | Dominican Republic | 38.7 | 155 | 269 | -25.4% |
| #21 | Universidad de la Tercera Edad | Dominican Republic | 35.8 | 116 | 128 | -11.1% |
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.