UNSW Sydney

Australia

UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales) is one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities, ranked among the top 50 universities in the world¹.

UNSW is known for producing innovative, pioneering research that has a global impact, attracting some of the most talented researchers and research students worldwide. Our partnerships with industry, international organisations, governments and other leading universities worldwide make us an attractive option for research investors.

Among many achievements, UNSW has pioneered the global development of solar energy technologies, helped to control devastating epidemics such as HIV, developed new therapies for depression and anxiety, and made previously unimaginable breakthroughs in quantum computing.

With more than 50,000 students from over 120 countries, UNSW is one of Australia’s most diverse and cosmopolitan universities.

UNSW is a founding member of the Group of Eight, a coalition of Australia’s leading research intensive universities, and a member of the prestigious Universitas 21 international network, Global Tech Alliance, Association of Pacific Rim Universities and Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise.

With King’s College London and Arizona State University Phoenix, UNSW Sydney is also a founding member of the PLuS Alliance, which creates, enables and deploys innovative research and education linkages to develop sustainable solutions to society’s global challenges. The PLuS Alliance provides cross-institutional programmes for students around the globe, establishes research connections across the universities, and contributes to a sustainable future by collaborating in the areas of global health, social justice, technology and innovation.

The main UNSW campus is located on a 38-hectare site at Kensington, seven kilometres from the centre of Sydney. Other major campuses are UNSW Art & Design in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, and UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

UNSW has eight faculties - Art and Design, Arts and Social Sciences, Built Environment, UNSW Business School, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science and UNSW Canberra at ADFA; offering an extensive range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs.

¹ 2017 QS World University Rankings

1 August 2018 - 31 July 2019

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for University of New South Wales (UNSW) published between 1 August 2018 - 31 July 2019 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.

AC	FC
454	129.12

Outputs by subject (FC)

Subject	AC	FC
Chemistry	140	49.05
Physical Sciences	126	33.88
Earth & Environmental Sciences	113	32.34
Life Sciences	148	31.15

Highlight of the month

Heat waves threaten the life aquatic

The rising tide of marine heat waves threatens ocean life and the essential services underwater ecosystems provide people on land.

This century has already seen several deadly atmospheric heat waves, but there have also been some devastating marine heat waves, the impacts of which are less clearly understood—and harder to study.

A team that included researchers from the University of New South Wales trawled the literature to assess how marine ecosystems respond to these prolonged periods of extreme warming, which appear to be increasing in frequency.

They found that marine heat waves have killed off vast areas of coral, seagrasses and kelp, and reduced biodiversity. Species already living at the warm end of their comfort zone were particularly vulnerable, as were those in regions already under pressure from overfishing and pollution.

In a warming world, more frequent and intense marine heat waves could severely disrupt commercial fisheries, remove natural coastal protection and reduce carbon uptake by the oceans.

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