Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» of Queensland is again Australia’s highest-ranking institution on the , further strengthening its as a top-tier research organisation.
The index rates institutions and countries according to the number and quality of research publications across 68 of the world’s leading science journals, including journals within and outside the Nature publishing group.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» has retained the top spot as Australia’s highest-ranking university in the 2016
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» has held the top position in Australia for the past two years.
The index ranks Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» at 89 among the world’s top academic institutions, and at 27 in the Asia-Pacific.
Harvard University ranks as the leading academic institution worldwide, followed by Stanford University.
Monash University ranks at 93 globally, the Australian National University at 100, and Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» of Melbourne at 130.
The rankings are based on the “weighted fractional count”, considered the most indicative of various measures that Nature Index publishes.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Vice-Chancellor and President said Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» continued its formidable performance in the life sciences – in fields including biology, microbiology, neuroscience, genetics, medicine and biotechnology.
“The index records that in 2015 the majority of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» publications included in the Nature Index were the Life Sciences (weighted fractional count 47.17), followed by Chemistry (36.7), the Physical Sciences (18.72), and then Earth and Environmental Sciences (7.14),” Professor Høj said.
He said the rankings highlighted the importance of collaboration between researchers and institutions.
“The vast majority of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»’s research is co-published with other organisations, giving our researchers collaboration opportunities with many of the highest-ranked experts in the world.
“Equally, the world has access to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»’s finest minds in the many areas where we have leading expertise.
“In this way, diverse knowledge and perspectives are brought to bear on problems we are tackling to create change to build a better world.”
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»’s top-ranking researchers highlighted in the latest Nature Index include:
- of the ), who co-authored in AJHG, the American Journal for Human Genetics. (Altmetric news summary ; Nature Index report .)
- of the , who co-authored in PNAS. (Altmetric news summary ; Nature Index report .)
- and of the , who co-authored in Geology. (Altmetric news summary .)
- of the QBI, who co-authored in Current Biology. (Altmetric news summary ; Nature Index report .)
- of the , who was the lead author of in Nature. (Altmetric news summary ; Nature Index report .)
- Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»’s , Donovan Parks, Steven Robbins, and , who co-authored in Science. (Altmetric news summary ; Nature Index report ).
Nature Index today opened unrestricted access to annual tables showing the output of articles published from 2012 to 2015 from more than 8000 institutions worldwide.
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