Top 10 institutions / ANZ / Physical sciences
Australia and New Zealand’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2015. Also shown are institutions’ share, the total number of articles (Count), and the change in WFC from 2012–2015. Articles are from the 68 journals that comprise the Nature Index.
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| 1 | Australian National University (ANU), Australia | 46.99 | 88.43 | 371 | 2.31 |
| 2 | University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia | 36.62 | 45.24 | 114 | 13.99 |
| 3 | The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia | 21.21 | 33.37 | 262 | –3.53 |
| 4 | Monash University, Australia | 20.89 | 37.52 | 160 | 2.31 |
| 5 | The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia | 18.72 | 21.61 | 128 | –1.87 |
| 6 | The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia | 18.51 | 37.16 | 302 | 0.55 |
| 7 | The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia | 16.95 | 30.45 | 199 | –3.83 |
| 8 | Swinburne University of Technology, Australia | 16.68 | 46.36 | 226 | 3.02 |
| 9 | The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia | 11.93 | 34.70 | 167 | –0.17 |
| 10 | The University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia | 8.29 | 8.29 | 24 | –4.48 |
Footnote
Weighted fractional count (WFC) for each institution is shown to two decimal places only. When two or more institutions have the same WFC, their positions are determined by the thousandth place (or beyond).
These results are based on the most recent data available. Owing to continual refinements of the data, the figures in the database are liable to change and might differ to those printed in the supplements.