ITS Research Intelligence

Romania University Research Rankings

Name: Romania University Research Rankings – ITS Research Solution
Creator: ITS Research Solution
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 43 index-ready universities in Romania. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 2,082 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 9,880. The average publication-growth signal is 31.4%. 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 Romania

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova	Romania	60.5	3,468	25,975	9.8%
#2	Apollonia University	Romania	55.4	614	3,519	231.8%
#3	University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest	Romania	54.9	1,846	8,581	5.6%
#4	Titu Maiorescu University	Romania	54.1	1,867	8,191	27.2%
#5	University of Bacău	Romania	52.9	1,111	3,350	71.9%
#6	Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania	Romania	49.3	921	4,416	-24.1%
#7	Constantin Brâncuși University of Targu Jiu	Romania	48.4	561	1,881	74.9%
#8	Military Technical Academy	Romania	47.8	814	1,757	38.6%
#9	Spiru Haret University	Romania	47.1	539	3,437	-32.7%
#10	Carol I National Defence University	Romania	43.3	821	1,033	-42.0%
#11	Institute of Biochemistry	Romania	43.0	131	869	-26.3%
#12	National Institute for Research and Development for Industrial Ecology	Romania	42.9	341	1,521	-51.2%
#13	Dimitrie Cantemir University	Romania	42.1	239	901	51.9%
#14	Mircea cel Batran Naval Academy	Romania	41.4	326	794	41.2%
#15	Hyperion University	Romania	41.2	181	689	51.7%
#16	Bogdan Voda University	Romania	41.1	144	304	102.9%
#17	Petre Andrei University of Iași	Romania	39.0	243	81	138.5%
#18	National University of Theatre and Film I.L. Caragiale	Romania	39.0	167	407	62.0%
#19	Agora University	Romania	38.5	288	360	0.9%
#20	Mihail Kogălniceanu University	Romania	38.0	121	423	0.0%
#21	Romanian University of Sciences and Arts "Gheorghe Cristea"	Romania	37.5	124	171	116.1%
#22	Tibiscus University of Timișoara	Romania	36.3	152	232	60.8%
#23	Emanuel University	Romania	36.3	146	295	-22.6%
#24	National University of Music Bucharest	Romania	35.9	181	38	460.9%
#25	National Intelligence Academy	Romania	28.3	163	96	-60.6%
#26	Gheorghe Dima Music Academy	Romania	27.6	191	54	11.8%

Transparent methodology

What the ITS Research Performance Score measures

The current score is intentionally research-specific. Thirty percent reflects five-year publication output, thirty percent five-year citations, twenty percent h-index, ten percent i10-index and ten percent five-year publication growth. Volume-based indicators are log-normalized before weighting so the largest universities do not dominate simply because of scale. Growth is bounded before entering the score so a tiny starting value cannot create an unrealistic advantage.

The score does not currently claim to measure teaching quality, student satisfaction, reputation, employability or finances. It also does not label the underlying citation totals as field-normalized impact. Future field-normalized modules should be added only when the underlying work-level calculations are available and validated. This separation keeps the ranking interpretable and prevents unsupported claims.

Source data is drawn from OpenAlex and linked to ROR identifiers. Both are open scholarly infrastructures. ITS Research Solution adds value through normalization, quality gates, trend calculations, ranking methodology, benchmarking and readable institution-level analysis.