2019 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences - 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 24.26 35.51 91 33.7%
2 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 31.77 30.66 99 -11.9%
3 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 28.06 28.44 106 -7.5%
4 Curtin University, Australia 15.66 22.56 71 31.6%
5 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 13.86 19.82 72 30.6%
6 Monash University, Australia 14.28 18.80 82 20.2%
7 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 10.95 12.06 64 0.6%
8 University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia 11.65 9.71 58 -23.8%
9 Macquarie University, Australia 10.15 8.56 29 -23.0%
10 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 6.78 8.34 31 12.3%
11 James Cook University (JCU), Australia 2.34 7.56 30 195.5%
12 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 5.41 7.02 26 18.3%
13 Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia 5.88 6.97 12 8.3%
14 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 1.89 5.72 14 176.3%
15 Griffith University, Australia 7.00 5.61 28 -26.7%
16 The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia 4.17 5.11 14 11.8%
17 University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia 2.06 4.59 22 103.1%
18 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 3.99 3.62 14 -17.1%
19 Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 1.69 3.27 16 77.2%
20 The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia 2.03 3.04 14 36.9%
21 University of Canberra, Australia 0.10 2.05 8 1694.2%
22 University of New England (UNE), Australia 0.56 2.02 5 231.3%
23 Murdoch University, Australia 0.74 1.68 5 107.0%
24 La Trobe University, Australia 0.39 1.56 13 263.7%
25 Western Sydney University, Australia 2.66 1.23 12 -57.7%
26 Victoria University (VU), Australia 2.50 1.12 3 -59.1%
27 University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia 0.29 0.85 5 164.3%
28 Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia 0.21 0.54 4 131.7%
29 Flinders University, Australia 1.06 0.29 7 -75.1%
30 Federation University Australia, Australia 0.36 0.25 1 -36.9%
31 Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australia 0.01 0.25 4 1668.2%
32 Deakin University, Australia 1.12 0.10 3 -91.7%
33 University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia 0.17 0.06 1 -65.8%
34 Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia 0.53 0.05 4 -91.8%
35 Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 1.20 0.01 1 -99.5%

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 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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