2019 tables: Institutions - academic

The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.

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# Institution Share 2017 Share 2018 Count 2018 Change in Adjusted Share* 2017–2018
1 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 119.23 150.36 449 19.0%
2 Monash University, Australia 112.09 125.59 480 5.8%
3 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 102.88 122.30 421 12.2%
4 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 90.48 104.46 522 9.0%
5 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 85.28 100.85 340 11.6%
6 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 68.47 75.95 362 4.7%
7 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 42.73 43.86 232 -3.1%
8 Curtin University, Australia 30.17 38.00 147 18.9%
9 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 38.09 35.81 223 -11.3%
10 Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 12.83 27.97 129 105.8%
11 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 18.45 27.53 86 40.8%
12 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 32.96 26.67 110 -23.6%
13 University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia 15.10 24.12 81 50.8%
14 Griffith University, Australia 24.60 20.76 94 -20.3%
15 University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia 22.34 20.56 112 -13.2%
16 Macquarie University, Australia 24.61 17.19 95 -34.1%
17 James Cook University (JCU), Australia 13.29 16.24 64 15.3%
18 La Trobe University, Australia 10.32 15.73 73 43.8%
19 Deakin University, Australia 12.79 13.51 48 -0.3%
20 The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia 9.36 12.40 63 25.1%
21 The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia 6.59 11.85 67 69.8%
22 Flinders University, Australia 5.39 9.10 37 59.3%
23 Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 11.48 7.77 73 -36.2%
24 Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia 7.01 7.60 16 2.3%
25 Western Sydney University, Australia 8.13 6.13 39 -28.8%
26 University of New England (UNE), Australia 0.75 4.42 14 455.6%
27 Murdoch University, Australia 1.59 4.18 22 147.3%
28 University of Canberra, Australia 1.14 2.58 14 113.8%
29 Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia 0.74 2.22 13 181.4%
30 University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia 1.63 1.67 16 -3.3%
31 University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia 0.85 1.56 11 72.8%
32 Victoria University (VU), Australia 2.51 1.45 7 -45.5%
33 Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australia 0.13 1.15 11 733.4%
34 Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia 1.20 0.51 11 -60.1%
35 Federation University Australia, Australia 0.36 0.36 3 -6.1%
36 Menzies School of Health Research, Australia 0.14 0.26 2 76.8%
37 Australian Catholic University (ACU), Australia 0.10 0.20 3 92.8%
38 The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Australia 0.04 0.14 3 280.4%
39 Bond University, Australia – 0.05 2 N/A
40 TAFE Queensland, Australia – 0.03 1 N/A
41 Central Queensland University (CQU), Australia 0.11 0.00 1 -99.6%

Footnote

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note:

  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals through 2022, in 2023 64 health-science journals were added to the Index. The 146 journals in the Nature Index were selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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The Nature Index database undergoes regular updating, corrections, adjustment of institutional hierarchies, and removal of retracted papers and thus the live website can differ from the frozen annual tables.

*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2022 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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