2022 tables: Institutions - academic

The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.

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# Institution Share 2020 Share 2021 Count 2021 Change in Adjusted Share* 2020–2021
1 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 161.24 156.25 470 -5.6%
2 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 155.50 150.60 491 -5.7%
3 Monash University, Australia 124.31 135.90 556 6.5%
4 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 111.26 102.78 558 -10.0%
5 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 88.75 97.57 347 7.1%
6 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 75.01 77.13 367 0.2%
7 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 41.44 45.50 262 7.0%
8 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 43.87 45.41 239 0.8%
9 Curtin University, Australia 35.27 33.08 149 -8.6%
10 Macquarie University, Australia 28.75 32.42 147 9.8%
11 Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 28.10 30.40 123 5.4%
12 University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia 32.15 30.30 104 -8.2%
13 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 36.14 29.72 121 -19.9%
14 Deakin University, Australia 15.60 23.08 69 44.1%
15 University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia 21.16 22.11 126 1.8%
16 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 28.26 19.39 72 -33.2%
17 Griffith University, Australia 23.00 16.22 67 -31.3%
18 Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 17.26 16.11 107 -9.1%
19 La Trobe University, Australia 10.13 14.45 83 38.9%
20 The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia 7.97 12.74 51 55.8%
21 James Cook University (JCU), Australia 15.32 11.02 54 -29.9%
22 Flinders University, Australia 7.67 9.14 50 16.2%
23 The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia 7.18 8.63 57 17.1%
24 Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia 5.72 5.20 13 -11.5%
25 University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia 2.49 4.23 22 65.4%
26 University of New England (UNE), Australia 1.79 3.93 16 114.0%
27 Western Sydney University, Australia 7.62 3.91 45 -50.0%
28 Murdoch University, Australia 1.41 3.58 26 147.7%
29 University of Canberra, Australia 0.52 2.26 11 325.4%
30 Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia 2.29 1.85 13 -21.3%
31 Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australia 0.80 1.76 18 114.5%
32 University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia 1.16 1.25 14 5.4%
33 Victoria University (VU), Australia 0.62 0.52 2 -17.6%
34 Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia 0.45 0.33 8 -29.3%
35 Menzies School of Health Research, Australia – 0.29 8 N/A
36 Central Queensland University (CQU), Australia 0.00 0.15 4 13312.4%
37 Federation University Australia, Australia 0.32 0.15 4 -55.6%
38 The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Australia 0.21 0.10 4 -52.9%
39 Chisholm Institute, Australia – 0.01 1 N/A
40 Australian Catholic University (ACU), Australia 0.66 0.01 1 -98.2%

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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