ITS Research Intelligence

Latvia University Research Rankings

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 27 index-ready universities in Latvia. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 1,376 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 4,639. The average publication-growth signal is 20.3%. 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 Latvia

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	University of Latvia	Latvia	72.8	9,541	38,425	-22.3%
#2	Riga Technical University	Latvia	70.3	5,574	28,005	6.7%
#3	College of Business Administration	Latvia	68.9	2,420	12,188	38.2%
#4	Riga Stradiņš University	Latvia	68.1	3,803	17,851	23.0%
#5	College of Law	Latvia	62.0	3,408	3,456	21.5%
#6	Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies	Latvia	61.9	2,387	6,668	10.6%
#7	Daugavpils University	Latvia	59.1	3,615	3,222	-36.6%
#8	Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava"	Latvia	54.0	653	2,739	-17.2%
#9	BA School of Business and Finance	Latvia	53.8	333	1,307	113.5%
#10	Transport and Telecommunication Institute	Latvia	51.1	466	1,583	28.5%
#11	Riga Technical College	Latvia	49.6	242	635	76.1%
#12	Baltic International Academy	Latvia	49.4	393	864	44.7%
#13	RISEBA University of Applied Sciences	Latvia	47.0	315	1,185	-7.4%
#14	ISMA University	Latvia	46.7	243	522	91.8%
#15	Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences	Latvia	46.4	248	558	30.8%
#16	Ventspils University of Applied Sciences	Latvia	46.2	271	1,014	-14.0%
#17	EKA University of Applied Sciences	Latvia	46.1	182	536	88.9%
#18	Riga High Tech University	Latvia	45.9	107	295	141.7%
#19	University of Liepāja	Latvia	45.8	349	617	10.4%
#20	Rezekne Academy of Technologies	Latvia	45.7	554	661	-51.3%
#21	Riga Aeronautical Institute	Latvia	45.4	263	458	82.9%
#22	Turība University	Latvia	45.2	325	684	-2.4%
#23	Latvian Academy of Sport Education	Latvia	44.2	270	570	-23.3%
#24	Stockholm School of Economics in Riga	Latvia	43.9	163	613	-31.3%
#25	Latvian Maritime Academy	Latvia	43.8	305	290	-22.1%
#26	Latvian Academy of Culture	Latvia	42.0	557	247	-17.5%
#27	Art Academy of Latvia	Latvia	37.4	161	56	-16.2%

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.