The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni)
Australia
The University of Adelaide is a world-class research and teaching institution situated in the heart of one of the world’s most liveable cities. Founded in 1874, we are Australia’s third oldest university, South Australia’s clear research leader, and consistently rank inside the world’s top 140.
Our reputation for breaking new ground has been forged by a continuous stream of exceptional people. We count among our alumni five Nobel Laureates, over 140 Fulbright Scholars and more than 100 Rhodes Scholars, including Australia’s first female Indigenous recipient. The country’s first female prime minister and Supreme Court judge were also University of Adelaide graduates.
We currently have 12 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers (2019), and, since 2001 our academics have received 11 coveted Australian Research Council Federation and Laureate Fellowships.
Today, our high-achieving culture continues to attract the world’s best and brightest- discipline leaders from around the globe and close to 8,000 international students from more than 90 countries, representing around 29% of our near-27,000 total student body.
Research impact
The University of Adelaide is committed to conducting future-making research with global impact. A member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight (Go8) research-intensive universities, we address the world’s greatest challenges.
Our researchers work closely across multiple disciplines and in productive partnership with industry, government and leading institutions around the globe.The resulting outputs are universally rated ‘world standard or above’ by the Australian Government’s Excellence in Research for Australia assessment (2018). This includes the highest possible rating in 41 distinct fields, spanning engineering, mathematics, science, medical and health sciences, agriculture and artificial intelligence.
Importantly, our work generates tangible community benefit. A London Economics report commissioned by the Go8 in 2018 valued our total contribution to South Australia’s economy at over AUS$4.23 billion.
* 2018 Times Higher Education world university rankings and the QS rankings
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1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni) published between 1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
Count | Share |
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236 | 41.12 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Subject | Count | Share | |
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Earth & Environmental Sciences | 35 | 8.15 | |
Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2 | 0.13 | |
Environmental Science and Technology | 9 | 2.02 | |
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 2 | 0.64 | |
Geology | 2 | 0.86 | |
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | 1 | 0.50 | |
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth | 2 | 0.18 | |
Nature | 1 | 0.07 | |
Nature Climate Change | 2 | 0.50 | |
Nature Communications | 5 | 0.64 | |
Nature Geoscience | 1 | 0.04 | |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1 | 0.06 | |
Science | 2 | 1 | |
Science Advances | 1 | 0 | |
Slow slip source characterized by lithological and geometric heterogeneity
2020-03-01
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0 | ||
Water Research | 4 | 1.51 | |
Physical Sciences | 101 | 9.56 | |
Life Sciences | 75 | 7.79 | |
Chemistry | 46 | 19.09 |
Highlight of the month
A new target for malaria drug development
© Ed Reschke/Getty
A protein involved in helping malaria parasites invade human blood cells offers a promising new target for drugs and vaccines.
Malaria causes over 400,000 deaths per year. The malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for most of these deaths.
A team led by researchers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia has shown that P. falciparum relies on a protein called PfCERLI1 to infiltrate red blood cells during the disease-causing blood stage of its lifecycle.
Using super-resolution imaging and various laboratory assays, the researchers detailed how PfCERLI1 localizes inside of a club-shaped secretory organelle called the rhoptry, where the protein aids in the secretion of factors that enable cell invasion.
Since genetic knockdown of PfCERLI1 activity impairs infection, vaccines or treatments aimed at the protein could help prevent or mitigate the disease in people.
- Nature Communications 11, 1411 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15127-w
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M ⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-09-02
GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-06-23
Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration
Nature Communications
2020-05-18
1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 17.64% Domestic
- 82.36% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (120 total)
- The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia
- Domestic institution
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The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia
(5.12)
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Monash University, Australia
(4.31)
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The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia
(4.12)
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University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia
(3.79)
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Flinders University, Australia
(3.59)
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South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Australia
(3.48)
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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
(3.43)
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The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia
(3.10)
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SA Health, Australia
(2.79)
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The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia
(2.62)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (2087 total)
- The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia
- Foreign institution
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(6.88)
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Tianjin University (TJU), China
(5.54)
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
(5.27)
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(3.75)
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
(3.74)
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(3.45)
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)
(3.36)
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Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria
(3.22)
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(3.01)
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University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
(2.88)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP), Australia
- ARC Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development (CMGD), Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights (ACEMS), Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE), Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (PEB), Australia
- ARC Research Hub for Graphene Enabled Industry Transformation, Australia
- ARC Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production (TC-IWP), Australia
- AuScope Limited, Australia
- Australia-China Research Centre for Crop Improvement (ACRCCI), Australia
- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), Australia
- Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF), Australia
- Australian Grain Technologies Pty Ltd. (AGT), Australia
- Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource (APCB), Australia
- Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program Consortium (ANZIC), Australia
- Centre for Invasive Species Solutions (CISS), Australia
- IceCube Collaboration, United States of America (USA)
- International PSC Study Group (IPSCSG), Australia
- Large Animal Research Imaging Facility (LARIF), Australia
- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, China
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), Australia
- The ATLAS Collaboration, Switzerland
- The Genographic Project, United States of America (USA)
- The H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Germany
- The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Argentina
- University of Adelaide-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Centre for Agriculture and Health, China

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