ITS Research Intelligence

Myanmar University Research Rankings

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 22 index-ready universities in Myanmar. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 655 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 869. The average publication-growth signal is 83.8%. 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 Myanmar

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Yangon University Of Distance Education	Myanmar	65.2	4,300	989	1,010.2%
#2	University of Dental Medicine	Myanmar	64.5	2,799	2,728	24.0%
#3	University Of Information Technology	Myanmar	57.7	1,316	1,415	123.9%
#4	University of Veterinary Science	Myanmar	54.8	575	1,567	24.9%
#5	University Of Medicine 1 Yangon	Myanmar	54.1	718	2,098	18.3%
#6	Yangon University of Economics	Myanmar	53.9	487	766	75.4%
#7	University of Pharmacy Mandalay	Myanmar	53.5	524	670	102.1%
#8	University of Medicine 2 Yangon	Myanmar	51.8	352	818	52.2%
#9	University of Medicine Mandalay	Myanmar	50.8	234	1,928	31.2%
#10	University of Nursing Mandalay	Myanmar	50.7	481	304	96.1%
#11	Mandalay University	Myanmar	50.6	258	913	67.5%
#12	Yezin Agricultural University	Myanmar	50.4	339	1,071	12.5%
#13	University of Yangon	Myanmar	48.1	245	1,155	-27.8%
#14	Mandalay Technological University	Myanmar	47.8	191	283	112.5%
#15	Yangon Technological University	Myanmar	47.3	207	481	47.6%
#16	Dagon University	Myanmar	46.9	147	268	106.8%
#17	University of Nursing Yangon	Myanmar	45.6	245	176	51.9%
#18	University of Computer Studies Yangon	Myanmar	44.6	192	440	-24.3%
#19	University of Computer Studies Mandalay	Myanmar	43.1	353	185	-36.9%
#20	Myanmar Institute of Information Technology	Myanmar	42.5	129	464	24.5%
#21	University of Pharmacy Yangon	Myanmar	41.1	175	270	-18.8%
#22	Technological University Pathein	Myanmar	37.5	145	139	-29.6%

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.