Top 25 universities in Poland
The 25 leading universities and higher education institutions in Poland, ordered by the citations their research has received. Part of the WAC University Directory.
25 institutions listed · data October 2026
- 1
Jagiellonian University
- 126,453 research works
- 5.3 million citations
- h-index 551
- 2
University of Warsaw (UW)
- 110,041 research works
- 4.7 million citations
- h-index 612
- 3
AGH University of Krakow (AGH UST)
- 61,574 research works
- 4.5 million citations
- h-index 509
- 4
Warsaw University of Technology (WUT)
- 61,908 research works
- 2.4 million citations
- h-index 395
- 5
Medical University of Warsaw
- 42,310 research works
- 1.8 million citations
- h-index 350
- 6
University of Wrocław (UWr)
- 67,864 research works
- 1.6 million citations
- h-index 320
- 7
Medical University of Lodz
- 32,992 research works
- 1.5 million citations
- h-index 319
- 8
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU)
- 68,050 research works
- 1.5 million citations
- h-index 281
- 9
Poznan University of Medical Sciences (PUMS)
- 33,634 research works
- 1.5 million citations
- h-index 350
- 10
Gdańsk Medical University (MUG)
- 28,753 research works
- 1.4 million citations
- h-index 365
- 11
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
- 53,133 research works
- 1.4 million citations
- h-index 289
- 12
Wroclaw Medical University
- 28,915 research works
- 1.4 million citations
- h-index 348
- 13
Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK)
- 50,909 research works
- 1.3 million citations
- h-index 291
- 14
Medical University of Silesia (SUM)
- 33,025 research works
- 1.3 million citations
- h-index 303
- 15
Gdańsk University of Technology
- 34,057 research works
- 1.2 million citations
- h-index 290
- 16
Medical University of Lublin (MUL)
- 29,257 research works
- 1.1 million citations
- h-index 294
- 17
University of Gdańsk (UG)
- 36,895 research works
- 1.1 million citations
- h-index 296
- 18
University of Łódź
- 49,926 research works
- 1 million citations
- h-index 289
- 19
Silesian University of Technology
- 44,497 research works
- 975 thousand citations
- h-index 226
- 20
Pomeranian Medical University (PMU)
- 15,341 research works
- 973 thousand citations
- h-index 351
- 21
Lodz University of Technology (TUL)
- 38,953 research works
- 952 thousand citations
- h-index 237
- 22
Medical University of Białystok
- 19,069 research works
- 941 thousand citations
- h-index 260
- 23
University of Silesia in Katowice (UŚ)
- 39,118 research works
- 932 thousand citations
- h-index 247
- 24
Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW)
- 41,121 research works
- 875 thousand citations
- h-index 244
- 25
Poznań University of Technology (PUT)
- 30,251 research works
- 865 thousand citations
- h-index 254
Ordered by total research citations recorded in OpenAlex (October 2026). Works, citations and h-index are OpenAlex figures for the institution. How the list is made.
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How institutions are chosen and ordered
The directory lists 1436 universities, colleges and higher education institutions in 199 countries and territories. In countries with 200 or more higher education institutions recorded in OpenAlex it lists the top 25; everywhere else, the top 5.
Institutions are ordered by the total number of citations their research has received, as recorded in OpenAlex, the open catalogue of the world’s research, with data taken in October 2026. This is a transparent, research-based order: it favours large research institutions and does not measure teaching quality, student experience or graduate outcomes. University systems are left out in favour of their campuses, and faculties or institutes are left out when their parent university is already listed. Names, cities and websites come from OpenAlex and the Research Organization Registry (ROR).
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