Top 30 institutions / Australia

Australia and New Zealand’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2015. Also shown are institutions’ fractional count (FC), the total number of articles (AC), and the change in WFC from 2012–2015. Articles are from the 68 journals that comprise the Nature Index.

2015	Institution	WFC 2015	FC 2015	AC 2015	Change in WFC 2012–2015
1	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	98.09	100.99	348	15.93
2	Monash University, Australia	92.69	109.31	364	1.28
3	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	92.26	133.70	505	8.29
4	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	82.16	94.32	513	–4.84
5	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	79.09	87.70	256	18.33
6	The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia	75.63	94.28	464	3.77
7	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	44.30	67.07	284	–0.18
8	The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	42.08	55.59	325	–4.65
9	The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia	30.49	32.56	182	0.72
10	Curtin University, Australia	24.16	35.25	233	10.93
11	Macquarie University, Australia	20.60	29.19	157	2.55
12	The University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia	20.33	20.33	61	–3.99
13	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia	18.82	48.50	236	0.13
14	University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia	16.78	19.63	96	1.55
15	RMIT University, Australia	13.77	13.77	51	5.17
16	Deakin University, Australia	13.22	13.22	48	3.82
17	The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia	12.74	12.74	46	8.34
18	James Cook University (JCU), Australia	12.71	12.71	42	0.11
19	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia	11.01	11.01	50	–1.78
20	Griffith University, Australia	10.85	10.85	44	0.39
21	University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia	9.81	9.81	30	2.4
22	La Trobe University, Australia	9.56	9.56	60	1.12
23	Flinders University, Australia	9.27	9.27	25	6.31
24	Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia	7.77	7.77	48	2.94
25	Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia	6.95	6.95	38	0.43
26	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia	5.12	5.12	30	–0.27
27	The University of Western Sydney (UWS), Australia	4.86	7.58	43	1.36
28	Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia	4.52	4.52	22	3.55
29	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia	4.38	4.38	46	–1.51
30	Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia	4.07	4.07	21	1.02

Weighted fractional count (WFC) for each institution is shown to two decimal places only. When two or more institutions have the same WFC, their positions are determined by the thousandth place (or beyond).

These results are based on the most recent data available. Owing to continual refinements of the data, the figures in the database are liable to change and might differ to those printed in the supplements.

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