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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 1,790 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 8,304. The average publication-growth signal is 90.9%. 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

RankUniversityCountryScore5-year works5-year citationsGrowth
#1University of LjubljanaSlovenia84.731,486178,0255.9%
#2University of MariborSlovenia75.89,84846,8919.8%
#3University of PrimorskaSlovenia68.04,60714,18920.9%
#4Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate SchoolSlovenia66.92,03414,576-12.7%
#5University of Nova GoricaSlovenia66.11,96311,99211.9%
#6Faculty of DesignSlovenia62.92,4254,44866.4%
#7College of AccountingSlovenia62.31,8733,12163.1%
#8Alma Mater EuropaeaSlovenia59.51,08310,45117.2%
#9Faculty of MediaSlovenia58.02,2181,918-8.9%
#10Biotechnical Educational Centre LjubljanaSlovenia54.94841,37459.6%
#11International School for Social and Business StudiesSlovenia54.1439486344.3%
#12Intellectual Property InstituteSlovenia52.956487757.3%
#13Higher Education Centre Novo MestoSlovenia52.84641,35980.2%
#14Faculty of Applied Social Studies in Nova GoricaSlovenia52.1416302305.2%
#15Faculty of Polymer TechnologySlovenia51.42981,85263.0%
#16Institute of Information ScienceSlovenia51.245332096.1%
#17College of Nursing in CeljeSlovenia51.12311,57114.1%
#18School of Business and Management Novo MestoSlovenia50.331359460.4%
#19College of Environmental ProtectionSlovenia48.816584067.4%
#20Higher School of Applied SciencesSlovenia48.025144679.7%
#21Univerzitetni Rehabilitacijski InštitutSlovenia47.619641913.2%
#22European Faculty of LawSlovenia47.531833931.2%
#23Kranj School CentreSlovenia47.4151234120.0%
#24National Education Institute of the Republic of SloveniaSlovenia47.3177145173.2%
#25College of Industrial EngineeringSlovenia47.13644888.6%
#26Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of SloveniaSlovenia46.5117149241.7%
#27School Centre Nova GoricaSlovenia46.518415757.7%
#28Vocational College of Traffic and TransportSlovenia44.4143185120.0%
#29IEDC-Bled School of ManagementSlovenia44.113945235.4%
#30Faculty of Commercial and Business SciencesSlovenia43.0121117-13.0%
#31Euro Mediterranean UniversitySlovenia42.621518858.6%
#32School Centre CeljeSlovenia42.211224652.9%
#33Univerzitetno Središče Novo mestoSlovenia39.414033900.0%
#34DOBA Business SchoolSlovenia39.211179121.4%
#35S&T SlovenijaSlovenia34.518939-29.0%
#36Tehnološko raziskovalni center JUBSlovenia34.314950-22.2%
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.