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Universidade Federal do Ceará

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 956–2268 of 2,287 · score 24.3
Research Index =1225

How it scores

Research
8
Alumni outcomes
43
Admissions & earnings
est.

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
1 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
26,956 / 34,597 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
4.9
B · Strength
16.3

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =1250. On strength alone: =1092. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
5.0% (4.4%–5.6%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.3% (0.2%–0.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
150
All papers (fractional count)
3,019
International co-authored
34.7%
Open access
51.3%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
12 (0.88 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences1409range 1258–1507 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences1008range 923–1039 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science1266range 1184–1312 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=1226range 1055–1381 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

bottom2010–2013: 667 of 7412020–2023: 1225 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

=1225Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.