ITS Research Intelligence
Israel University Research Rankings
Compare Israel universities using recent research output, citation impact, growth and a transparent research-performance score.
Research landscape
The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 49 index-ready universities in Israel. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 4,063 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 42,698. The average publication-growth signal is 47.2%. 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 Israel
| Rank | University | Country | Score | 5-year works | 5-year citations | Growth |
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| #1 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 82.2 | 46,215 | 529,962 | -6.0% |
| #2 | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel | 80.7 | 13,966 | 255,820 | -2.7% |
| #3 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 80.1 | 31,046 | 327,627 | 2.1% |
| #4 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 78.5 | 21,943 | 242,937 | 0.3% |
| #5 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Israel | 76.9 | 23,338 | 234,405 | -1.2% |
| #6 | Bar-Ilan University | Israel | 74.4 | 15,820 | 144,573 | 2.3% |
| #7 | University of Haifa | Israel | 71.7 | 14,314 | 109,425 | 8.2% |
| #8 | Lander Institute | Israel | 66.9 | 673 | 26,998 | 0.7% |
| #9 | Ariel University | Israel | 66.3 | 7,198 | 54,287 | 18.2% |
| #10 | Reichman University | Israel | 64.6 | 1,633 | 20,052 | -22.3% |
| #11 | Hadassah Academic College | Israel | 60.9 | 857 | 7,312 | -7.7% |
| #12 | Open University of Israel | Israel | 60.5 | 1,686 | 13,060 | 13.4% |
| #13 | Tel Hai Academic College | Israel | 59.7 | 1,747 | 12,808 | 49.6% |
| #14 | Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo | Israel | 58.4 | 1,637 | 10,492 | 43.2% |
| #15 | The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College | Israel | 56.8 | 921 | 7,456 | 47.8% |
| #16 | Ruppin Academic Center | Israel | 56.6 | 982 | 7,438 | 20.7% |
| #17 | Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat | Israel | 56.5 | 427 | 4,851 | -12.8% |
| #18 | Holon Institute of Technology | Israel | 56.5 | 1,104 | 7,052 | 23.8% |
| #19 | Jerusalem College of Technology | Israel | 56.4 | 1,319 | 7,331 | 47.8% |
| #20 | Oranim Academic College of Education | Israel | 55.7 | 750 | 5,164 | 39.8% |
| #21 | Ono Academic College | Israel | 54.2 | 664 | 5,153 | -1.2% |
| #22 | Braude College of Engineering Karmiel | Israel | 53.6 | 652 | 4,295 | 1.9% |
| #23 | Sami Shamoon College of Engineering | Israel | 52.1 | 890 | 4,246 | 43.0% |
| #24 | Zefat Academic College | Israel | 51.6 | 721 | 4,550 | 16.0% |
| #25 | Ashkelon Academic College | Israel | 51.3 | 653 | 3,852 | 24.0% |
| #26 | College of Management Academic Studies | Israel | 50.0 | 496 | 2,232 | 52.3% |
| #27 | Achva Academic College | Israel | 49.6 | 690 | 3,268 | 39.4% |
| #28 | Sapir College | Israel | 49.4 | 610 | 3,156 | 0.4% |
| #29 | Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education | Israel | 49.2 | 412 | 2,714 | 31.6% |
| #30 | The Technological College of Beer Sheva | Israel | 48.6 | 251 | 2,193 | 45.2% |
| #31 | Western Galilee College | Israel | 48.3 | 595 | 2,697 | 58.1% |
| #32 | Beit Berl College | Israel | 48.1 | 549 | 2,562 | -9.2% |
| #33 | Afeka College of Engineering | Israel | 47.4 | 362 | 2,660 | -3.5% |
| #34 | Shenkar College of Engineering and Design | Israel | 47.1 | 372 | 2,187 | 22.4% |
| #35 | Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts | Israel | 46.6 | 431 | 2,163 | 5.8% |
| #36 | Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem | Israel | 46.4 | 378 | 1,769 | 75.4% |
| #37 | Netanya Academic College | Israel | 45.3 | 309 | 1,784 | 20.3% |
| #38 | Peres Academic Center | Israel | 44.2 | 305 | 1,906 | -5.7% |
| #39 | Jerusalem University College | Israel | 42.6 | 156 | 803 | 172.2% |
| #40 | Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee | Israel | 41.7 | 209 | 1,970 | -49.1% |
| #41 | Kaye Academic College of Education | Israel | 41.2 | 296 | 1,111 | -3.5% |
| #42 | The Arab Academic College for Education in Israel | Israel | 41.0 | 255 | 1,525 | -6.8% |
| #43 | David Yellin College of Education | Israel | 40.9 | 226 | 873 | 90.5% |
| #44 | Levinsky-Wingate Academic College | Israel | 38.4 | 185 | 761 | 1,300.0% |
| #45 | Sakhnin College | Israel | 38.2 | 232 | 678 | 63.9% |
| #46 | The Mofet Institute | Israel | 37.2 | 155 | 655 | 47.6% |
| #47 | Herzog College | Israel | 35.5 | 142 | 662 | 20.4% |
| #48 | Van Leer Jerusalem Institute | Israel | 34.5 | 137 | 364 | 20.9% |
| #49 | Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design | Israel | 33.6 | 155 | 352 | -27.4% |
Research fields where Israel universities rank
Number of Israel universities in the top 100 of each ITS research-field ranking.
Transparent methodology
How ITS Research Score v3 is constructed
One formula applies to every index-ready institution, using the five most recent complete calendar years: 25% research output, 25% citations, 20% h-index and 5% i10-index (log-normalized so the largest universities do not dominate linearly), 15% citation impact (the institution’s percentile on citations per work, reduced below 500 works so small samples cannot win by chance), 5% publication growth and 5% international-collaboration share. When collaboration data is not yet available, the other weights are rescaled.
Data-quality controls: the unfinished current year is never counted, and a year in which recorded output jumps to more than three times the institution’s usual level while being at least 90% open access is treated as a bulk dataset or repository deposit and scored at the usual level. An affiliation check also removes institutions whose papers mostly do not name them in the author address (OpenAlex sometimes assigns a large university’s papers to a namesake school or college). Raw data are kept and every adjustment is logged. Open-access share and topic diversity are published as separate rankings and do not affect the main score. Citation impact is not field-normalized.
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.