ITS Research Intelligence

Uzbekistan University Research Rankings

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

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

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 25 index-ready universities in Uzbekistan. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 2,471 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 2,438. The average publication-growth signal is 149.9%. 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 Uzbekistan

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Urgench State University	Uzbekistan	62.3	6,555	8,787	288.3%
#2	Turin Polytechnic University	Uzbekistan	60.1	2,836	5,042	256.2%
#3	Karshi State University	Uzbekistan	59.1	4,790	3,398	195.4%
#4	Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam Karimov	Uzbekistan	59.0	5,076	13,536	74.4%
#5	Karakalpak State University	Uzbekistan	54.9	3,196	2,991	128.8%
#6	Inha University in Tashkent	Uzbekistan	54.2	817	2,851	463.8%
#7	Namangan Engineering Pedagogical Institute	Uzbekistan	54.2	3,451	2,495	137.2%
#8	Kokand State Pedagogical Institute named after Mukimi	Uzbekistan	53.4	3,101	850	330.3%
#9	Navoi State Mining Institute	Uzbekistan	53.1	1,478	1,642	188.4%
#10	Andijan State University	Uzbekistan	52.1	3,132	1,997	113.4%
#11	Nukus State Pedagogical Institute named after Ajiniyaz	Uzbekistan	49.9	2,344	566	222.1%
#12	Samarkand Institute of Economics and Service	Uzbekistan	49.2	2,252	467	216.4%
#13	Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages	Uzbekistan	47.8	3,835	340	142.3%
#14	The Institute of History of The Academy of Sciences of The Republic of Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	45.2	420	459	271.6%
#15	Jizzakh Polytechnic Institute	Uzbekistan	44.6	1,399	1,150	22.6%
#16	Tashkent Financial Institute	Uzbekistan	44.1	1,127	2,175	-37.0%
#17	Samarkand State Architectural and Civil-Engineering Institute	Uzbekistan	43.5	739	645	76.1%
#18	Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry	Uzbekistan	43.4	924	787	20.0%
#19	Andijan Institute of Agricultural	Uzbekistan	41.9	1,015	499	30.6%
#20	State Conservatory of Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	35.1	326	149	73.2%
#21	Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	30.9	148	65	18.4%

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.