The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni)

Australia

At the University of Adelaide, we unite and serve those striving to change the world—and themselves—for the better.

Established in 1874, we’re home to over 29,000 students and 3,000 staff, all working to create progress. For our community. For all. Ours is a university of outstanding quality—ranked among the top 1% globally—in the heart of Australia’s most liveable city¹.

Relentlessly progressive

Adelaide was Australia’s first university to welcome female students. The first to offer science and business degrees. The first with a conservatorium of music.

Among those who’ve studied, taught, or conducted research here are Australia’s first female prime minister; the first Australian astronaut to walk in space; our country’s first Indigenous Rhodes Scholar; Australia’s first female Supreme Court judge; and five Nobel Prize winners.

Exceptional education and research

Our bold spirit continues to drive us to excel. In education, we’re recognised among the top 100 universities globally in 23 different subject areas². In nine we’re inside the top 50; in two we’re number one in Australia.

In research, as a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight research-intensive universities, we’re rising to global challenges in a huge range of fields, with work rated ‘well above world standard’ in 41 distinct areas³.

The 2020 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list recognised 14 of our current academics for the scale of their global influence—three in multiple fields. Times Higher Education in 2021 ranked us 62 in the world for research citations, and number two nationally.

Since 2001 our academics have received 13 coveted Australian Research Council Federation and Australian Laureate Fellowships. And in recent years we’ve twice had a researcher recognised in MIT Technology Review’s prestigious Innovators Under 35 list⁴. In 2020, we were the only Australian university represented; in 2019 we were one of just two.

¹Economist Intelligence Unit, 2021. ²Total unique entries across QS World University Rankings by Subject, and Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject, 2021. ³Excellence in Research Australia, 2018 (the most recent assessment date). ⁴Asia Pacific region.

1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021

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 July 2020 - 30 June 2021 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
233	39.18

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Life Sciences	77	9.27
Earth & Environmental Sciences	37	8.11
Earth and Planetary Science Letters	1	0.05
Environmental Science and Technology	4	0.47
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	3	0.69
Geology	4	0.91
Geophysical Research Letters	3	0.73
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres	2	0.54
Nature	2	0.15
Nature Climate Change	2	0.90
Nature Communications	4	0.39
Science	3	1.13
Science Advances	2	0.27
Time and space catch up with restoration programs that ignore ecosystem service trade-offs 2021-03-01		0.10
Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology 2020-12-01		0.17
The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology	1	0.07
Water Research	6	1.82
Chemistry	34	14.68
Physical Sciences	102	9.83

Highlight of the month

Tropical fish could flounder in acidifying oceans

Carbon emissions could make cool waters unwelcoming for tropical fish escaping rising sea temperatures.

As the oceans warm, tropical fish and other heat-seeking sea life can expand their habitats into temperate waters, a process known as tropicalization. Ocean acidification also affects marine ecosystems, but how the two effects interact is unclear.

Now, a team led by researchers from Adelaide University has compared the numbers of warm-adapted sea urchins and tropical fishes living in temperate tropicalization hotspots and around volcanic vents that emit carbon dioxide, to replicate ocean acidification.

In temperate waters, sea urchins transform kelp forests that support temperate fish species into barren habitats that attract various tropical fish. However, in acidified waters, sea urchin populations plummeted by 87%, turf algae took over from barren habitats, and tropical fish diversity dropped.

Understanding the combined effect of warming and acidification on tropical and temperate fish could reveal whether marine ecosystem structures will be able to adjust to climate change.

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