ITS Research Intelligence

Slovenia University Research Rankings

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 36 index-ready universities in Slovenia. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 1,775 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 12,921. The average publication-growth signal is 105.8%. 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 Slovenia

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	University of Ljubljana	Slovenia	77.6	31,564	272,835	30.3%
#2	University of Maribor	Slovenia	69.2	10,114	74,823	27.8%
#3	Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School	Slovenia	66.5	2,045	23,694	-10.1%
#4	University of Nova Gorica	Slovenia	65.0	2,093	19,357	5.3%
#5	Alma Mater Europaea	Slovenia	63.1	1,005	17,501	51.4%
#6	University of Primorska	Slovenia	61.3	4,526	24,346	34.8%
#7	College of Accounting	Slovenia	54.2	1,676	4,370	96.7%
#8	Faculty of Design	Slovenia	53.8	2,320	5,845	61.5%
#9	Biotechnical Educational Centre Ljubljana	Slovenia	48.7	423	1,836	63.2%
#10	Faculty of Media	Slovenia	48.4	2,357	2,819	9.7%
#11	Faculty of Polymer Technology	Slovenia	47.9	306	2,013	183.8%
#12	Higher Education Centre Novo Mesto	Slovenia	47.1	421	1,896	90.0%
#13	College of Nursing in Celje	Slovenia	45.8	242	2,170	7.5%
#14	Intellectual Property Institute	Slovenia	45.4	471	1,223	42.9%
#15	College of Industrial Engineering	Slovenia	43.9	351	854	95.3%
#16	College of Environmental Protection	Slovenia	43.4	156	1,159	102.4%
#17	School of Business and Management Novo Mesto	Slovenia	42.9	305	1,029	75.9%
#18	International School for Social and Business Studies	Slovenia	42.1	416	584	396.8%
#19	Higher School of Applied Sciences	Slovenia	40.8	253	845	50.6%
#20	Institute of Information Science	Slovenia	40.4	380	383	69.8%
#21	Euro Mediterranean University	Slovenia	39.6	163	360	196.3%
#22	European Faculty of Law	Slovenia	39.3	305	599	0.0%
#23	Univerzitetni Rehabilitacijski Inštitut	Slovenia	39.0	184	588	12.9%
#24	IEDC-Bled School of Management	Slovenia	38.3	127	655	42.5%
#25	School Centre Celje	Slovenia	36.7	104	566	96.6%
#26	School Centre Nova Gorica	Slovenia	36.4	174	192	106.5%
#27	Kranj School Centre	Slovenia	36.3	131	294	58.7%
#28	Faculty of Commercial and Business Sciences	Slovenia	36.3	113	120	37.1%
#29	Faculty of Applied Social Studies in Nova Gorica	Slovenia	36.3	250	368	123.8%
#30	Šolski center Slovenj Gradec	Slovenia	35.6	103	998	18.9%
#31	Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia	Slovenia	35.5	119	315	114.7%
#32	Vocational College of Traffic and Transport	Slovenia	34.5	138	199	70.5%
#33	National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia	Slovenia	34.4	121	136	159.3%
#34	S&T Slovenija	Slovenia	30.2	193	49	89.6%
#35	Tehnološko raziskovalni center JUB	Slovenia	29.5	131	93	-16.1%
#36	Univerzitetno Središče Novo mesto	Slovenia	27.8	120	35	1,212.5%

Research fields where Slovenia universities rank

Number of Slovenia universities in the top 100 of each ITS research-field ranking.

Mathematics (2)Business, Management and Accounting (1)Arts and Humanities (1)

Transparent methodology

How ITS Research Score v3 is constructed

One formula applies to every index-ready institution, using the five most recent complete calendar years: 25% research output, 25% citations, 20% h-index and 5% i10-index (log-normalized so the largest universities do not dominate linearly), 15% citation impact (the institution’s percentile on citations per work, reduced below 500 works so small samples cannot win by chance), 5% publication growth and 5% international-collaboration share. When collaboration data is not yet available, the other weights are rescaled.

Data-quality controls: the unfinished current year is never counted, and a year in which recorded output jumps to more than three times the institution’s usual level while being at least 90% open access is treated as a bulk dataset or repository deposit and scored at the usual level. An affiliation check also removes institutions whose papers mostly do not name them in the author address (OpenAlex sometimes assigns a large university’s papers to a namesake school or college). Raw data are kept and every adjustment is logged. Open-access share and topic diversity are published as separate rankings and do not affect the main score. Citation impact is not field-normalized.

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.