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 October 2019 - 30 September 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 October 2019 - 30 September 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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242 | 43.97 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Subject | Count | Share | |
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Earth & Environmental Sciences | 42 | 9.73 | |
Life Sciences | 85 | 9.79 | |
Chemistry | 44 | 19.95 | |
Physical Sciences | 92 | 8.22 |
Highlight of the month
Warmer oceans change composition of food webs
© magnetcreative/Getty
Ocean warming may lead to an increase in the biomass of species at the bottom of the food web, such as algae and cyanobacteria, but a decrease in the species that feed on those primary producers.
Researchers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia exposed an experimental coastal seafloor ecosystem to the warmer water and higher ocean acidification conditions consistent with forecasts for the end of this century under a high-emissions scenario.
They found that while ocean acidification alone didn’t significantly alter either the structure or composition of the food web, ocean warming of 2.8 degrees Celsius saw primary producers, particularly turf algae and cyanobacteria, increase both in productivity and biomass. At the same time, the biomass of the shellfish, molluscs and crustaceans that eat those primary producers dropped by around 40%.
- Science 369, 829–832 (2020). doi: 10.1126/science.aax0621
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
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 October 2019 - 30 September 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 18.75% Domestic
- 81.25% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (135 total)
- The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia
- Domestic institution
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The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia
(5.63)
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The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia
(5.23)
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The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia
(4.31)
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SA Health, Australia
(4.10)
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South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Australia
(3.41)
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Flinders University, Australia
(3.36)
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Monash University, Australia
(3.29)
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Australian National University (ANU), Australia
(3.28)
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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
(3.14)
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University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia
(2.87)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (2222 total)
- The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia
- Foreign institution
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
(7.17)
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(5.17)
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(4.04)
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Wuhan University (WHU), China
(3.87)
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Tianjin University (TJU), China
(3.66)
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(3.56)
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(3.47)
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
(3.40)
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(3.08)
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University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
(2.82)
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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