ITS Research Intelligence

Georgia University Research Rankings

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 28 index-ready universities in Georgia. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 1,090 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 2,660. The average publication-growth signal is 74.1%. 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 Georgia

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Tbilisi State University	Georgia	71.8	5,170	15,338	14.3%
#2	Ilia State University	Georgia	71.1	7,466	18,230	53.6%
#3	Georgian Technical University	Georgia	66.4	3,234	8,319	30.5%
#4	Agricultural University of Georgia	Georgia	60.0	1,044	1,055	153.4%
#5	University of Georgia	Georgia	59.9	995	7,815	54.0%
#6	Caucasus University	Georgia	58.5	1,071	2,287	152.4%
#7	David Tvildiani Medical University	Georgia	56.3	514	2,761	119.6%
#8	Tbilisi State Medical University	Georgia	54.4	2,695	7,007	33.8%
#9	Georgian American University	Georgia	51.9	264	770	289.4%
#10	Gori State University	Georgia	51.4	786	179	190.7%
#11	Caucasus International University	Georgia	50.9	613	394	168.7%
#12	Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University	Georgia	50.9	1,186	900	8.2%
#13	International Black Sea University	Georgia	50.3	501	2,760	-47.0%
#14	David Agmashenebeli University of Georgia	Georgia	49.9	530	2,374	-21.6%
#15	Akaki Tsereteli State University	Georgia	48.9	1,232	504	25.0%
#16	Free University of Tbilisi	Georgia	48.4	216	511	108.3%
#17	University Geomedi	Georgia	47.4	321	844	66.3%
#18	Kutaisi International University	Georgia	46.4	258	536	157.1%
#19	Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy	Georgia	46.1	179	578	95.7%
#20	Georgian National Academy of Sciences	Georgia	45.5	111	82	5.0%
#21	Batumi Navigation Teaching University	Georgia	45.1	204	196	175.0%
#22	Sokhumi State University	Georgia	43.4	538	152	15.9%
#23	Grigol Robakidze University	Georgia	41.6	394	170	48.7%
#24	Batumi State Maritime Academy	Georgia	40.3	145	321	49.0%
#25	Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University	Georgia	36.5	146	12	209.1%
#26	International Teaching University of Georgia	Georgia	36.1	119	151	-24.5%
#27	Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University	Georgia	35.4	338	177	-15.2%
#28	Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University	Georgia	29.9	237	50	-40.2%

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.