ITS Research Intelligence

Lithuania University Research Rankings

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 30 index-ready universities in Lithuania. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 1,472 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 7,711. The average publication-growth signal is 33.3%. 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 Lithuania

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Vilnius University	Lithuania	78.2	13,747	83,209	-7.0%
#2	Kaunas University of Technology	Lithuania	72.0	5,438	42,284	-5.8%
#3	Lithuanian University of Health Sciences	Lithuania	71.4	4,882	25,846	-0.7%
#4	Vilnius Gediminas Technical University	Lithuania	70.2	4,616	22,193	10.2%
#5	Vytautas Magnus University	Lithuania	68.1	4,310	23,564	-8.1%
#6	Klaipėda University	Lithuania	63.3	1,731	8,308	22.4%
#7	Lithuanian Sports University	Lithuania	61.0	987	4,246	68.0%
#8	Vilnius University of Applied Sciences	Lithuania	61.0	1,242	3,298	92.9%
#9	Mykolas Romeris University	Lithuania	60.2	1,693	7,063	-17.7%
#10	Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution	Lithuania	55.9	1,041	1,349	64.8%
#11	Kaunas University of Applied Engineering Sciences	Lithuania	53.0	308	670	160.3%
#12	Kazimieras Simonavičius University	Lithuania	52.1	405	1,129	85.8%
#13	ISM University of Management and Economics	Lithuania	51.4	258	1,509	47.1%
#14	Klaipėdos valstybinė kolegija / Higher Education Institution	Lithuania	49.4	360	1,016	112.2%
#15	Vilnius Business College	Lithuania	48.8	264	469	118.6%
#16	Šiauliai University	Lithuania	48.5	317	983	-18.9%
#17	Vilnius College of Technologies and Design	Lithuania	46.8	259	1,179	-6.7%
#18	Lithuanian Institute of History	Lithuania	46.0	354	550	-18.6%
#19	Lithuanian Maritime Academy	Lithuania	44.3	131	206	156.7%
#20	European Humanities University	Lithuania	42.9	275	277	-19.7%
#21	Utenos kolegija Higher Education Institution	Lithuania	42.4	159	213	63.3%
#22	Vilnius College of Design	Lithuania	42.3	113	222	58.3%
#23	Lithuania Business University of Applied Science	Lithuania	41.4	102	238	96.7%
#24	LCC International University	Lithuania	40.6	188	308	20.6%
#25	Panevėžys College	Lithuania	40.3	105	260	-15.0%
#26	Šiauliai State Higher Education Institution	Lithuania	40.1	244	206	31.7%
#27	International Business School at Vilnius University	Lithuania	39.7	112	231	0.0%
#28	SMK University of Applied Social Sciences	Lithuania	38.0	208	172	-38.0%
#29	Vilnius Academy of Arts	Lithuania	35.7	181	117	-26.5%
#30	Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre	Lithuania	28.7	143	22	-29.1%

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.