ITS Research Intelligence

Paraguay University Research Rankings

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 24 index-ready universities in Paraguay. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 663 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 806. The average publication-growth signal is 43.0%. 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 Paraguay

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Universidad San Carlos	Paraguay	55.5	886	985	81.4%
#2	Universidad Nacional de Asunción	Paraguay	53.7	4,395	8,567	-10.2%
#3	Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción	Paraguay	49.9	586	636	29.1%
#4	Universidad Nacional del Este	Paraguay	49.7	543	237	214.0%
#5	Universidad del Norte	Paraguay	49.6	887	344	50.2%
#6	Universidad Columbia del Paraguay	Paraguay	49.4	1,775	1,837	41.9%
#7	Universidad Politécnica y Artística del Paraguay	Paraguay	49.4	419	1,081	13.1%
#8	Universidad Americana	Paraguay	49.1	846	717	79.7%
#9	Universidad Privada del Este	Paraguay	48.9	629	138	214.5%
#10	Universidad Nacional De Caaguazú	Paraguay	48.0	459	1,064	11.7%
#11	Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay	Paraguay	47.2	194	182	128.0%
#12	Universidad de la Integración de las Américas	Paraguay	46.6	849	354	44.3%
#13	Universidad del Pacífico	Paraguay	45.5	389	905	-3.8%
#14	Universidad Autónoma de Asunción	Paraguay	45.3	706	390	20.8%
#15	Universidad Nacional de Concepción	Paraguay	44.1	264	294	31.8%
#16	Universidad Iberoamericana	Paraguay	43.6	289	217	80.3%
#17	Universidad Metropolitana de Asunción	Paraguay	42.0	114	160	-66.1%
#18	Universidad Tecnológica Intercontinental	Paraguay	41.8	232	173	59.4%
#19	Paraguayan Center for Population Studies	Paraguay	41.1	108	195	27.3%
#20	Universidad Nacional de Itapúa	Paraguay	40.3	372	237	2.7%
#21	Universidad Nacional de Pilar	Paraguay	38.7	590	410	-26.3%
#22	Universidad Comunera	Paraguay	38.6	127	103	-10.9%
#23	Instituto Nacional de Educación Superior Dr. Raúl Peña	Paraguay	33.6	105	28	30.6%
#24	Universidad Nacional de Canindeyú	Paraguay	30.3	152	87	-12.1%

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.